This is a fine and wide ranging modern history of the time commonly referred to as the 'Viking Age' and one of the first which clearly links the beginning of the Scandinavian attacks on north west Europe to the conquest of heathen Saxony by the Christian Francs under Charlemagne in the 780's. The...
This comment in the book (p. 89) "Obviously some rudimentary notion of what it meant to be Christian would have to be conveyed if Christianization were to work as an effective political tool." I am looking for a historically researched book on Christianity as Empire. I know about the book, "Fait...
THE WAFFEN-SS ORIGINS AND ORGANISATION OF THE WAFFEN-SS When Hitler assumed the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933, he felt that he could not rely entirely on the traditional Reichswehr and police guards appointed by the state to protect him. Consequently, he quickly issued instructions for the fo...
All fourteen were squeezed into the tent making it impossible to lie out straight. The gain in altitude had given Philip a headache which a couple of aspirins could only reduce to a dull but constant ache. Snoring and coughing merged with the wind that whined through the seracs and ice pinnacles ...
Muslim civilization had grown dramatically since the founding of the religion in Mecca in about 610 and Mohammed’s emigration to Medina in 622. The territorial and cultural expansion eastward and westward during the period of the Umayyad caliphs in the eighth century created an empire that extend...
