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Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) [1] is a British historian, writer, and hotelier. He is a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford , and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford. A new abridged edition was illustrated by Neil Packer. [1] The full text is divided into 25 chapters. The author combines the development of the world with the Silk Road.
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History is a 2023 non-fiction book by English historian Peter Frankopan.It discusses the interactions between human societies and the environment throughout history.
The House of Frankopan (Croatian: Frankopani, Frankapani, Italian: Frangipani, Hungarian: Frangepán, Latin: Frangepanus, Francopanus) was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croatia in union with Hungary.
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of The World is a 2018 non-fiction book by English historian Peter Frankopan.The full text is divided into 5 chapters. The author discusses the recent rise of Asia's economic and geopolitical strength.
Peter Frankopan, professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, found the text "bold, dazzling and provocative" that challenges received ideas about early Christianity. [3]
The Alexiad (Greek: Ἀλεξιάς, romanized: Alexias) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. [1]
The House of Zrinski or Zrínyi was a Croatian-Hungarian noble family, [5] [6] [7] a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the Kingdom of Croatia's union with the Kingdom of Hungary and in the later Kingdom of Croatia as a part of the Habsburg monarchy.