Confrontation with Ottoman expansion began for Braşov at the end of the 14th century with the treaty with Mircea the Elder in the year 1395 which was part of King Sigismund of Luxembourg’s anti-Ottoman policy and was signed in Braşov.
The Harsh Life on the 15th Century Croatia-Ottoman Empire Military Border: Analyzing and Identifying the Reasons for the Massacre in Cepin
April 4, 2012 By
Turkish intrusions into what is today the continental part of Croatia began in 1391 and continued throughout the 15th, and the beginning of the 16th century when a large part of continental Croatia was incorporated into the Turkish Empire.
Tamerlane’s Place of Abode and Activities after Ankara War in Kütahya
March 4, 2012 By
Tamerlane who won the Ankara war against the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in July 28, 1402 did not immediately left Anatolia and stayed there for approximately one year. He continued his pillage attacks and conquests in various cities of Anatoia during this period.
Sacred Kingship among the Peoples of the Steppes
February 8, 2012 By
eurThe vast belt of the Steppes, located between the Hungarian plains and the Great Wall of China,
runs along the southern edge of the Eurasian arboreal zone. Starting in the 1st millenium B.C. this region has been inhabited by Iranian, Hunnish, Turkish and Mongol mounted nomads who, at various times, unified a large portion of the Steppes into a single empire.
Perspectives on the Crusaders’ Armenia: Cilicia from 1071 to 1148
November 29, 2011 By
The vast majority of medieval historians writing on the Middle East have focused on Byzantium, the Crusaders, and the Saracens, but there is an abundance of primary materials on Armenian history
Image of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa
September 11, 2011 By
Image of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa Kuncevic, Lovro (Central European University; Institute for Historical Sciences of Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Ragusa)) Conference: Topics, Theories, and Methods in the History of Politics beyond Great Events and Great Men, Central European University (2007) Abstract My goal in this […]
Byzantine women´s visibility in the arts
September 3, 2011 By
Byzantine women´s visibility in the arts Piltz, Elisabeth (Uppsala University, Sweden) 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (2006): Communication (II.5 Secular Space) Abstract The role and status of women in Byzantium is related to the genus theory of women in medieval societies. Several scholars have already dealt with this problem. Angeliki Laiou has written about […]
Roger de Flor’s Campaign of 1304 in Western Anatolia: A Reinterpretation
August 3, 2011 By
Roger de Flor’s Campaign of 1304 in Western Anatolia: A Reinterpretation By Wiktor Ostasz Paper given at Between Constantines: Representations and Manifestations of an Empire, Oxford Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference (2011) Abstract: The hiring of the Catalan Company was an event of central importance in the long reign of Andronikos II (1282–1328). After a […]
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico»
August 3, 2011 By
The war against Islam and the Muslims at home: the Mudejar predicament in the Kingdom of Valencia during the reign of Fernando «El Católico» Meyerson, Mark D. Sharq Al-Andalus, No.3 (1986) Abstract Fernando’s ¡nternal policy of fostering the communities of Muslims, or Mudejars, in the territories of his own Crown of Aragón seems at odds […]
The Turks with the Grand Catalan Company, 1305-1312
July 31, 2011 By
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean
July 26, 2011 By
‘Clash of Civilizations’, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: an Analysis of Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean Buttigieg,Emanuel (University of Malta) Religion and power in Europe : Conflict and Convergence, Pisa University Press, (2007) Abstract In a world that has become so powerfully gripped by a possible escalation of a ‘clash of civilizations’ that could spiral out […]
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade
July 22, 2011 By
The Debate on the Fourth Crusade Harris, Jonathan History Compass, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2004) Abstract This article examines attempts over the past two hundred years to account for the diversion of the Fourth Crusade to Constantinople and its sack of the city in 1204. While nineteenth-century scholars dreamed up far-fetched conspiracy theories, their successors […]
Matthias Corvinus and His Library
July 10, 2011 By
Matthias Corvinus and His Library Stein, Rose Hungarian Studies Review, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Spring 1986) Abstract Hungary in the fifteenth century was threatened by the danger of Turkish invasion. Only a central power, such as that created by King Matthias (Matyas) Corvinus (1440?—90), could muster enough strength to withstand the onslaught of the Turks. Matthias’s […]
Medieval Sites in Italy, Syria, Turkey and Vietnam added to World Heritage List
July 8, 2011 By
Twenty-five sites were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List last month, including four which date from the Middle Ages. The 35th session of the World Heritage Committee was held last month in Paris, where 25 of the 35 proposed sites received final approval to be included on the List, which marks places that are particularly […]
The Struggle Between Osman Gazi and The Byzantines For Nicaea
June 28, 2011 By
The Struggle Between Osman Gazi and The Byzantines For Nicaea By Halil Inalcik Iznik Throughout History, ed. H. Inalcik (Istanbul, 2003) Introduction: The Byzantine Empire was forced to turn over all of Anatolia to the Turkish invaders within the twenty-five years following 1071. Suleymansah established the Anatolian Seljukid Sultanate in Nicaea (Iznik) in 1087. Following […]
Acropolites And Gregoros On The Byzantine- Seljuk Confrontation At Antioch-On-The Maeander (A.D.1211). English Translation And Commentary
June 17, 2011 By
Modern research has conclusively established that the battle of Antiochad-Maenderum in Phrygia, considered to be the third most hotly contested confrontation between the Byzantines and the Seljuks since Manzikert (Malasgirt) in 1071 and Myriocephalum (Çardak) in 1176, took place is the spring or early summer of A.D. 1211 and not in A.D. 1210, as it was previously believed
Slavery and Conversion of the Slaves to Islam in the Ottoman Society
June 12, 2011 By
Slavery and Conversion of the Slaves to Islam in the Ottoman Society: According to the Canonical Registers of Bursa between XVth and XVIIIth Centuries By Osman Cetin UÜ İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol.10:1 (2001) Introduction: In Bursa as well as in other cities of Anatolia, among the groups who had converted to Islam, the slaves occupied an […]
The Byzantine church at Labraunda
June 2, 2011 By
The Byzantine church at Labraunda By Jesper Blid Master’s Thesis, Uppsala University, 2006 Abstract: This thesis examines the Christian context of the former pagan sanctuary of Zeus Labrandeus in Caria during the Early Byzantine period, ca. 325-730 A.D. The focus is on the church, positioned outside the pagan sanctuary’s temenos area. The architecture of the […]
Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty
May 22, 2011 By
Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty Forbes Manz, Beatrice Iranian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1/2, Soviet and North American Studies on Central Asia (1988) Abstract The great nomad conqueror Timur set out to conquerthe whole of the former Mongol Empire and almost succeeded. Although the dynasty he founded lasted a relatively short time, he became […]
The Effects of King Sigismund’s Hussite Wars on the Art of War
May 22, 2011 By
The Effects of King Sigismund’s Hussite Wars on the Art of War Fa, ÁRPÁD (Miklós Zrínyi National Defence University, Budapest, Hungary) AARMS Vol. 9, No. 2 (2010) Abstract This paper elaborates upon the effects on the art of war of the crusades launched in the first half of the 15th century against the Hussites, who intended to […]
The Black Dragon – Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
May 13, 2011 By
The Black Dragon – Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula Annette Bauer – recorders, voice, percussion, citole, bells Phoebe Jevtovic – voice, bells Shira Kammen – vielle, harp, voice Tim Rayborn – psaltery, percussion ‘ud, citole Tonight, we were delighted that we had a fantastic opportunity to attend a concert by Cançonièr. Cançonièr, “songbook” […]
The Battle of Manzikert: Military Disaster or Political Failure?
April 1, 2011 By
This paper examines Romanus’ Manzikert campaign and the significance of his defeat, and assesses whether the Byzantine position in Anatolia was recoverable, and if so, why that recovery failed?
Clothing as a Political Tool in the Ottoman Empire: Two Miniature Paintings From a Sixteenth-Century Illustrated History of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520 -1566)
March 20, 2011 By
Clothing as a Political Tool in the Ottoman Empire: Two Miniature Paintings From a Sixteenth-Century Illustrated History of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520 -1566) Scollay, Susan Journal of Historical and European Studies, Volume 1, December (2007) Abstract The Ottoman state, like other Islamic and pre-modern dynasties, regulated the appearance and personal presentation of its officials and citizens. Costume signalled distinctions […]
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