Product Description: This volume of essays intends to present diverse aspects of monotheistic kingship during the Middle Ages in two general theoretical articles and a series of "case studies" on the relationship of religion and rulership. The authors discuss examples of the role of religion - based on both textual and iconic evidence - in Carolingian, Ottonian and late medieval Western Europe; in Byzantium and Armenia; Georgia; Hungary; the Khazar Khanate; Poland, and Rus'...read more

This account sets the revolutionary events of 1956 in their full context. It has been written by a team of Hungarian scholars using a wealth of hitherto inaccessible evidence - documents, interviews and other material - from Hungary and abroad, including much that is entirely new and much that was only available in censored form. The result is the first authentic history of the uprising which sent shock-waves through the Cold War world and, despite its suppression, provided a moral and political foundation for the post-Soviet nation. The English version, specially adapted and extended, is prefaced by a substantial historical introduction by George SchIpflin (LSE) on Hungary after World War II.