The book 'Empires of the Middle Ages,' edited by renowned medievalist Sylvain Guggenheim, brings together for the first time under one cover works describing the formation and development of 16 empires in different parts of the world.
The purpose of this collection is to cover similar political entities within an extended chronological period on a global scale. The structure of the presentation of the material is determined by the division of empires into three groups proposed by Guggenheim: empires-universa (such as the Carolingian Empire, Byzantium, the Mongol and Chinese empires, etc.), empires isolated in a certain geographical space (Bulgarian, Serbian, Japanese, the Latin Empire of Constantinople, the solar empires of Latin America), as well as empires with dispersed territories (the German Empire of the Ottonians, the Norman Empire, the Empire of the Plantagenets, the thalassocratic empires of Venice and Srivijaya).
The articles of the authors, among whom are both eminent scholars and bright young researchers, are distinguished by the originality of their approaches, replete with facts and conclusions that are of undoubted interest not only for specialists, but also for the widest range of history buffs.