About the book: 2011 / The volume covers the main issues of the history and culture of the medieval world. It examines the migrations of tribes, explores the problems of coexistence of sedentary and nomadic peoples, and the ways of development of world religions. Particular attention is paid to the typology of the formation of medieval states, the emergence of new world powers on the historical arena - empires and national-territorial states, nomadic kaganates and eastern caliphates. The synchronization of socio-economic, political and cultural processes occurring in various regions of Asia, Europe and Africa allows us to see in the totality of unique civilizations a certain unity of the medieval World System. For historians and a wider range of readers.