Routledge History Handbooks
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Signes Codoñer, Martin Hinterberger, Inmaculada Pérez Martín
October 22, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid ...
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History
1st Edition
Edited
By Mesut Uyar, Edward J. Erickson
September 30, 2025
This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society. It covers much neglected conflicts and wars and provides new insights about its complex politics, military, diplomacy, and people. The Turkish Republic was born after a series of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugene Y Park
February 24, 2025
Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 countries, The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern ...
The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Denis Menjot, Mathieu Caesar, Florent Garnier, Pere Verdés Pijuan
December 19, 2024
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World
1st Edition
Edited
By Przemysław Marciniak, Tristan Schmidt
December 03, 2024
Animals have recently become recognized as significant agents of history as part of the ‘animal turn’ in historical studies. Animals in Byzantium were human companions, a source of entertainment and food – it is small wonder that they made their way into literature and the visual arts. Moreover, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
1st Edition
Edited
By Yifat Gutman, Jenny Wüstenberg
August 26, 2024
This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies. From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed ...
The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Stewart, David Parnell, Conor Whately
May 27, 2024
This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging ...
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Mati Meyer, Charis Messis
May 23, 2024
This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Alessia Rossi, Alice Isabella Sullivan
February 22, 2024
This volume aims to broaden and nuance knowledge about the history, art, culture, and heritage of Eastern Europe relative to Byzantium. From the thirteenth century to the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the regions of the Danube River stood at the intersection of different ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City: From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca.1500)
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolas Bakirtzis, Luca Zavagno
January 31, 2024
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, ...
The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300
1st Edition
Edited
By Florin Curta
September 25, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Miriam Müller
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to place peasants – as small-scale agricultural producers – firmly at the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and resilience to shape their ...