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This volume begins with the Byzantine Empire and moves through the Crusader States, the Islamic World, South and East Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and lastly Western and Eastern Europe. It provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places
List of contents
PREFACESECTION ONE. THE BYZANTINE WORLD
Eastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire to 1204.
Latin Empire
Empire of Nicaea
Despotate of Epirus
Empire of Trebizond
Latin principalities of Achaea
Duchy of Athens
County of Cephallonia
Duchy of Naxos
Eastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire after 1261.
Despotate of the Morea and other Late Byzantine sub-states.
Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empresses.
Crusader States: Kingdom of Jerusalem
Antioch
Tripoli
Edessa
Cyprus
Cilician Armenia
Armenia and Georgia.
SECTION TWO: THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Caliphs: C7th heirs of the Prophet, then Ummayads and Abbasids.
Fatimid Caliphate of Tunisia and Egypt
(Christian states of upper Egypt/ Nubia: Makuria and Dongola)
Khorasan: Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids
Egypt; Tulunids and Ikshidids.
Iran: Buyids.
Syria: Hamdanids, Mirdasids, Uqaylids.
Azerbaijan: Sa'dids.
Aghlabids of Tunisia
Ummayad emirate and Caliphate of Al-Andalus, Spain
Successor-states in C11th Al-Andalus.
Seljuks: Iran; Konya/ Anatolia.
Syria: Zengids
Ayyubids of Egypt and Syria
Central Asia/ Afghanistan: Khwarezm, Ghaznavids.
Yemen
Sicily; Majorca.
Morocco
Maghreb: Almoravids, Almohads.
Tunisia: Hafsids, Zirids, Wattasids.
Mongols: Great Khans (with Yuan of China)
Iran: Ilkhans
Golden Horde and other Central Asian Mongol states
Jagatai Khans; Timurids; Qaraqanids.
Late Medieval Anatolia: Dhu'l Qadir; Karamanids; Germiyan; Aydin; Sarukhan; Menteshe; Kastamonu; Kara Koyunlu; Ak Koyunlu.
Ottoman Sultanate
SECTION THREE: ASIA AND AFRICA
Medieval India: Hindu and Moslem states
Burma
Thailand
Khmer states
Vietnam
Dynasties of China: T'ang to Ming
Korea
Japan
Ethiopia
The Sahel: Kanem/ Bornu; Ghana, Mali and Songhai
Nigeria: Hausa states
Central Africa
SECTION FOUR: THE BRITISH ISLESBritain : Anglo-Saxon England
England after 1066
Wales: Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed/ Deheubarth, Gwent, Brycheiniog (Brecon).
Early Scotland: Picts, Dal Riada/Scots, Strathclyde.
Medieval Scotland from 844
Jarldom of Orkney
Lords of the Isles/ Hebrides
Kingdom of Man
Ireland: High Kings
Ulster; Leinster; Munster; Connacht; Viking Dublin.
SECTION FIVE: EUROPE, PART ONE, WEST.
Francia; Merovingians, Carolingians
Medieval France: Kings
; Brittany, Normandy, Anjou, Blois, Champagne, Artois, Boulogne,
Flanders, Lorraine, Alencon, Burgundy/ Arles; Aquitaine; Toulouse;
Bearn; Foix; Provence; Vienne; Franche-Comte.
Spain: Barcelona; Suevi; Visigoths; Asturias/ Leon; Leon and Castile; Aragon; Navarre.
Portugal
SECTION SIX: EUROPE, CENTRE, SOUTH AND NORTH.
Hungary
Low Countries: Brabant, Holland, Hainault.
Holy Roman Empire: Emperors.
Bavaria; Saxony; Palatinate; Hesse and Thuringia; Baden;
Wurtemmberg; Mecklenberg; Brandenburg; Brunswick and
Luneburg; Julich and Cleves; Austria.
Poland; Lithuania; Silesia.
Bohemia
Serbia; Bulgaria.
Vandal Africa.
Burgundians
Italy: Ostrogoths; Lombards; Venice; Savoy/ Piedmont; Montferrat; Milan; Modena; Mantua; Florence; Popes; Naples and Sicily.
Denmark; Norway; Sweden.
Russia: Grand Princes of Kiev/ Kiyev.
Chernigov; Smolensk; Ryazan; Galicia; Vladimir-Suzdal; Novgorod; Rostov; Yaroslavl; Tver; Moscow.
INDEX
About the author
Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include
A Chronology of the Crusades (2015) and
A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017).
Summary
This volume begins with the Byzantine Empire and moves through the Crusader States, the Islamic World, South and East Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and lastly Western and Eastern Europe. It provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places
