The Middle Kingdoms

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The Middle Kingdoms

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-627-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141996271

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 640

Fecha de publicación: 2024-05-16

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Middle Kingdoms

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-626-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141996264

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 640

Fecha de publicación: 2023-05-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Middle Kingdoms

Editorial: allen_lane

ISBN: 978-02-4160-400-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241604007

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1375

Fecha de publicación: 2023-05-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Middle Kingdoms

Martyn Rady

Primera publicación: 2023-05-04

Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from the east. In the Middle Ages, Central Europeans cast their eastern foes as 'the dogmen'. They would later become the Turks, Swedes, Russians and Soviets, all of whom pulled the region apart and remade it according to their own vision. Competition yielded repeated cultural effervescences. This was the first home of the High Renaissance outside Italy, the cradle of the Reformation, the starting point of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the symphony and modern nationalism. It was a permanent battleground too for religious and political ideas. This new history embraces the whole of Central Europe, including the German lands as well as Ukraine and Switzerland. The story of Europe's Middle Kingdoms is a reminder of Central Europe's precariousness, of its creativity and turbulence, and of the common cultural trends that make these lands so distinctive.