Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$20.00 Add to cartDesigned to make Bertolt Brecht’s work accessible for today’s audience, this bilingual collection shows the range of the German poet’s insightful and compelling poetry.
Bertolt Brecht is counted as one
- Author: Brecht, Bertolt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156806460
- Language: English
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Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays
$13.95 Add to cartThe haunting poetry of [Oz’s] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture.” —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a tw- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156001926
- Language: English
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Viking and Slavic Ornamental Designs: Volume 3
$19.00 Read moreThis volume is based on three pillars – photos, new publications and the Internet. The author has constructed Volume III of the Viking and Slavic Ornamental Design with a new set of 266 or so ancient … [more below]
- Author: Gorewicz, Igor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945430826
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$12.95 Add to cartWhen the Spanish took over Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries they made certain to destroy the writings and holy books of the native Mayans in an effort to convert them to Christianity. Fe… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1585092363
- Language: English
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The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
$17.99 Read moreA gripping tale of one of history’s most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature
In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of S
- Author: Waller, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402219431
- Language: English
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
$26.00 Read moreAn insightful account of how medieval people experienced time.
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical–from creation thr- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Adler, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146798
- Language: English
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Tribes into Nations: the Early History of the British Isles
$40.00 Add to cartTribes into Nations takes a fresh look at the ethnic and cultural evolution of the British Isles. It challenges the long tradition of Anglocentric history which saw the past through the prism of Empir
- Author: Bristow-Smith, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1399932837
- Language: English
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Soul Is Here for It’s Own Joy
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 1999
- ISBN10: 088001475X
- Language: English
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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
$24.95 Add to cartThe Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles – throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world’s most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here ch
- Author: Russell, Jeffrey Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 1992
- ISBN10: 0801480566
- Language: English
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1215
$20.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Danny Danziger and medieval expert John Gillingham comes a vivid look at the signing of the Magna Carta and how this event illuminates one of the most compelling and romantic p… [more below]
- Author: Danziger, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743257782
- Language: English
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Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You
$14.95 Add to cart“Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d’Arc — who here is a composite of hist
- Author: Campos, Isabel Sobral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0692150293
- Language: English
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
$45.00 Add to cartThis is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
- Author: Halsall, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 614
- Publish Date: December 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0521435439
- Language: English
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The Stones of Florence
$18.99 Add to cartA journey through the glorious Italian city’s scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group.
Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayis… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027631
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Add to cartMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
$11.99 Add to cartA brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treas
- Author: Bridgeford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2004
- ISBN10: 184115041X
- Language: English
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Richard of Saint Victor, On the Trinity
$51.00 Add to cartVery few in the history of the church have not struggled with the dogma of the Trinity. Those who have not dismissed it as incomprehensible gibberish have found it a battlefield for division and misun… [more below]
- Author: Angelici, Ruben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1498213367
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War: 1337-1453
$20.00 Read moreAn illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.
There can be no doubt that military conflict between- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Curry, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857062
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?
Western exceptionalism–the idea that E- Author: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774396
- Language: English
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Saga of the People of Weapon’s Fjord (Vápnfirðinga Saga): A New English Translation with Old Norse Text, Vocabulary, and Maps
$14.99 Add to cartThe Saga of the People of Weapon’s Fjord (Vápnfirðinga Saga) is a masterpiece of saga telling. It recounts blood feud in Iceland during the Viking Age and takes the reader deep into struggles for po
- Author: Byock, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1953947131
- Language: English
