Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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The Cathars: Their Mysteries and History Revealed
$16.95 Add to cartCatharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Believing themselves to be the true heirs to the true Christian heritage, the Cathars completely rejected the Catholic Church, and held the… [more below]
- Series: History and Myths Revealed
- Author: Martin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1627950087
- Language: English
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Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi
$24.95 Add to cartSigns of the Unseen is a collection of Rumi’s lectures, discourses, conversations, and comments on various and sundry topics. Even in conversation Rumi expresses his spiritual insights in a style rich… [more below]
- Author: Thackston, Wheeler M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1570625328
- Language: English
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Inferno
$25.00 Add to cartAn innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno as it has never been rendered
Stopped mid-motion in the middle
Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-
Only a dense ca- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976549
- Language: English
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Catherine of Siena
$27.95 Add to cartAlthough Catherine of Siena was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1970, relatively little attention has been given to her mystical thought, particularly in the English-speaking world. The Dialogue,
- Author: McDermott, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0809145472
- Language: English
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
$34.00 Read moreFragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very ima
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299620
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings
$89.95 Add to cartJonathan Sumption’s Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called “one of the great historical works of our time.”
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructi- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Sumption, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0812223888
- Language: English
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Utopia
$5.00 Read moreFirst published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the su
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0486295834
- Language: English
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
$24.99 Add to cartToday’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817403
- Language: English
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
$17.95 Add to cart“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.” Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Foxe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199236844
- Language: English
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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire
$22.99 Add to cartWeird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it re… [more below]
- Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0190625945
- Language: English
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Templars in America: The Secret Legacy of Voyages to America Before Columbus
$21.95 Add to cart“This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the true history of the founding of the most powerful nation on earth.”
–Scott Wolter, host of America Unearthed and author of Cryptic Code… [more below]- Author: Wallace-Murphy, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637480121
- Language: English
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartThe “golden age of Islam” in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries. The rule of Baghdad’s Abbasid Dynasty stretch… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814803
- Language: English
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0192806556
- Language: English
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The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 – 2010
$22.99 Add to cart“Tate’s poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.”
—New York Times
The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking c… [more below]- Author: Tate, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0062101862
- Language: English
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Meister Eckhart: Selections from His Essential Writings
$13.99 Add to cartThe teachings of the German-born Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Dominican philosopher and spiritual master, are among the most daring and profound in the history of Western mysticism. From counsels on d
- Series: HarperCollins Spiritual Classics
- Author: Harpercollins Spiritual Classics
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: June 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0060750650
- Language: English
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American Melancholy: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years
Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute so
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063035278
- Language: English
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The Faith of the Early Fathers: Volume 1: Volume 1
$34.95 Add to cartVolume 1
Volume 1: the Pre-Nicene and Nicene eras
A source-book of theological and historical passages from the Christian writings of the Pre-Nicene and Nicene eras. Volume 1 ends circa 382.
Volume 2:- Series: Faith of the Early Fathers #1
- Author: Jurgens, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0814604323
- Language: English
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
$18.00 Add to cartLong out of print, Jules Michelet’s classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public’s attention to one of the truly great sociological works of mo… [more below]
- Author: Michelet, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: February 19 1992
- ISBN10: 080650059X
- Language: English
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Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the 1920s Belgian historian Henri Pirenne came to an astonishing conclusion: the ancient classical civilization, which Rome had established throughout Europe and the Mediterranean world, was no… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Emmet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0578094185
- Language: English
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The Gallant Spaniard
$24.95 Add to cartThere are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish Golden Age literature, including in the corpus of Miguel de Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don Quixote, but u… [more below]
- Author: Cervantes, Miguel De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 082650602X
- Language: English
