Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven
$19.99 Read more– An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted.
– Restores the reputat- Author: Wasserman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 089281859X
- Language: English
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Mediaeval Feudalism
$17.95 Add to cart“In the following pages I have tried to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the historical significance of the feudal system…. My purpose has not been to give a comprehensive description o
- Series: Great Seal Books
- Author: Stephenson, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 15 1956
- ISBN10: 0801490138
- Language: English
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The Eagles’ Brood: Book Three of the Camulod Chronicles
$28.99 Add to cartThe Eagles’ Brood by Jack Whyte continues the saga of the Colony known as Camulod, and the tale of the descendants of those brave Romans who forged a new way of life for the Celt and Roman peoples whe
- Series: Camulod Chronicles (Paperback) #3
- Author: Whyte, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0765304597
- Language: English
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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
$19.95 Add to cartThe modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origin
- Series: Princeton Classics #21
- Author: Strayer, Joseph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169330
- Language: English
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
$20.00 Add to cartBoth highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners … [more below]
- Author: Boswell, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 679751645
- Language: English
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Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
$24.95 Read moreAlready a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the… [more below]
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 393352986
- Language: English
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages
$25.00 Add to cartThe castles of the Medieval world continue to interest readers, both as architectural wonders and because of their dramatic role in world history. The general public is largely unaware of just how man… [more below]
- Author: Kaufmann, J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813580
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
$18.99 Add to cartOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061138843
- Language: English
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Second Space: New Poems
$18.00 Add to cartNobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz’s most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energe
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0060755245
- Language: English
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Treasury of Medieval Illustrations
$12.95 Add to cartThe realms and reveries of the Middle Ages unfold in more than 750 black-and-white illustrations. Includes magnificent renderings of warriors, scholars, musicians, architecture, business and recreatio… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: LaCroix, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0486460126
- Language: English
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The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVoltaire’s description of the Holy Roman Empire as “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire” is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had al… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Whaley, Joachim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198748760
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Castle
$18.99 Add to cart“Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention… Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” –George R.R. Ma
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062414798
- Language: English
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Queen of Legends
$34.99 Add to cartHer barbarian prince promised Wren the world, and she left him in the dead of the night.
With nowhere to go and price on her head, Wren goes into hiding and joins forces with the Kingdom of Myths to de
- Author: Kay, Frost
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: November 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1736709089
- Language: English
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Ringerike Style Essentials: How to Create Viking Age Art
$35.00 Add to cartThe Ringerike style (c. 1000-1075 CE) is one of the quintessential styles of the Viking Age. But how do you recreate the style in accordance with its original principles? Ringerike Style Essentials un
- Author: Markussen, Jonas Lau
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 8797060097
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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Divine Comedy
$62.99 Add to cartDescribed as the “fifth gospel” because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: November 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0393044726
- Language: English
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Collected Poems 1943-2004
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the most honored poets of 20th-century American verse, Richard Wilbur won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poetry.
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixt… [more below]
- Author: Wilbur, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0156030799
- Language: English
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Beards & Baldness in the Middle Ages: Three Texts
$12.95 Add to cartRanging from fifth-century north Africa to twelfth-century Latin Europe, the three texts translated in this book reveal the religious and social importance of beards and baldness in the Middle Ages, a… [more below]
- Author: McAlhany, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989699308
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age
$28.00 Add to cartA “lively and engaging” history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity o- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0316545317
- Language: English
