Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through...

This book is an attempt at an objective history about the Reformation. It presents the facts, but does not pursue any theory, or forward any cause....

Preface; Introduction; Grottasǫngr; Commentary; Bibliography.

Introduction; Historical Background; Title; Preservation; Contents; Oral and written sources; date and place of composition; Authorship and circums...

Preface; The Sagas of Heimskringla -- Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction, Snorri and Heimskringla Through the Centuries; Authorship; Snorr...

This is the first part of a new translation in three volumes of Heimskringla, the collection of sagas covering the history of Norway from its legen...

This is the third part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla

Preface; Introduction; Hervarar Saga Ok Heiđreks; Notes; Glossary; Index of Names.

Preface; Introduction; The author; The date of the Historia; The Historia and other sources; ϸóror munkr: man, monk and historian; The text; The an...

The fragmentary medieval chronicle, Historia Norwegie, is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of No...

Throughout his reign Christian IV (1588-1648) distinguished himself as a remarkable patron of the arts and sciences. One of the projects to which h...

The contributions to this volume address a wide range of fascinating topics: the marital regime in Damascus, narrative strategies in biographies of...

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru --an account of the Spanish conque...

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Historia Norwegiae; Passio et Miracula beati Olavi; A History of Norway; The Passion and Miracles of the B...

Russian history has entranced scholars and historians for centuries. The reason may reside in the vivid nature of the events themselves which seem ...

Volume 6 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus' focuses on life in Ukraine before the Cossack age of seventeenth century. The volume bear...

Volume 3 concludes the first cycle of the History of Ukraine-Rus', which Mykhailo Hrushevsky characterized as the story of the Ukrainian people's h...

With volume 4, Mykhailo Hrushevsky begins the second, 'Lithuanian-Polish,' cycle of his History of Ukraine-Rus', which extends from the fourteenth-...

In this fifth volume of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History, the eminent historian focuses on the social, political, and ecclesiastical structures and re...

Volumes 1 through 3 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's ten-volume magnum opus, History of Ukraine-Rus', form a foundational unit for the history of the Ukrai...

Icelandic Journal

Icelandic Language

Introduction; Conversion Table; Author Index; Subject Index; Round-up County by County; Portraits; Obituaries.