Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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The Golden Braid
$16.99 Add to cartThe one who needs rescuing isn’t always the one in the tower.
Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweet
- Author: Dickerson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0785240373
- Language: English
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Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
$35.00 Add to cartIn the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, ear
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1935408119
- Language: English
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Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography
$17.99 Add to cartThe first fully-realized biography of Julian-theologian, anchorite, and visionary of the Middle Ages.
A groundbreaking and sometimes controversial biography that offers full tribute to the mystic Julia
- Author: Frykholm, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1612610978
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Carrasco, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0195379381
- Language: English
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
$20.00 Add to cart“Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government.” –Antonia Fraser
Fr- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108956
- Language: English
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
$15.00 Add to cartIn the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ’s Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud o… [more below]
- Series: Classic, Modern, Penguin
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447628
- Language: English
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Yellow: The History of a Color
$39.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present
In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 069119825X
- Language: English
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Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diak
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063092921
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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On Christian Teaching
$12.95 Add to cartThe De Doctrina Christiana (“On Christian Teaching”) is one of Augustine’s most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the develo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Augustine, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540632
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation
$19.95 Read moreFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem
The Owl and the Nightingale, one- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #134
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0691202168
- Language: English
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
$30.00 Add to cartA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII
“A delight–immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, ful
- Author: Wellesley, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675088
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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Purgatorio
$8.95 Add to cart- Series: La Divina Commedia #2
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321344X
- Language: English
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Revelations of Divine Love
$17.99 Add to cartRevelations of Divine Love, the first book ever written in English by a woman, is dense, deeply intuitive, and theologically complex. The last thirty years have seen several translations, some academi
- Series: Paraclete Essentials
- Author: Julian of Norwich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1557259070
- Language: English
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Ecological Imperialism
$24.99 Add to cartPeople of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ea… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crosby, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569877
- Language: English
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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartThe history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business.
The history began in Ireland during the late 1700s
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0718011333
- Language: English
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Blue: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the ages
Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181365
- Language: English
