Europe - Medieval
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The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
$16.95 Read moreThe beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living in… [more below]
- Author: Swan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 162919008X
- Language: English
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Coo- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0143110802
- Language: English
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Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World
$24.95 Add to cartMedieval people are often portrayed as having poor hygiene and table manners–licking their knives or throwing chicken bones on the floor. In the Middle Ages, however, such behavior was not tolerated…. [more below]
- Author: Cybulskie, Danièle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214695
- Language: English
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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction
$18.99 Add to cartThe digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our sc… [more below]
- Author: Kreiner, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 2, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094443
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
$20.00 Add to cartThe author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard I… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127888
- Language: English
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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
$19.95 Add to cart“Skeie’s account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones–without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted.” –Publisher… [more below]
- Author: Skeie, Tore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1782278354
- Language: English
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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
$19.99 Add to cart“The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare t
- Author: Gabriele, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0062980904
- Language: English
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
$50.00 Add to cart* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a t- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525559418
- Language: English
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
$20.00 Add to cartA major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones.
For more than one thousa- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 0143108972
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$19.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, Ne- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730753
- Language: English
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Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times
$29.99 Add to cartLive, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!
Explore what your medieval life would have been through a choose-your-own-adventure full of quizzes, how-to guides, diagrams and- Author: Swarthout, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1529908302
- Language: English
