Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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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
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The Greeks: A Global History
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the a- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1541618297
- Language: English
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Study Guide to Beowulf
$12.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry. As one of … [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645420361
- Language: English
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though … [more below]
- Author: Cantor, Norman F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797749
- Language: English
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The Last Saxon King: A Jump in Time Novel, Book One
$14.99 Add to cart- Marketing and publicity campaign to middle school teachers, middle school readers, young adult readers, historical fiction, fantasy, English history readers, and extensive social media channels
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- Series: Jump in Time #1
- Author: Varga, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1945501855
- Language: English
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Alfred’s Dynasty: How an Anglo-Saxon King and His Family Defeated the Vikings and Created England
$36.99 Add to cartIn 878, Alfred, king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if he and his kingdom were about to be destroyed. Yet within months he had d… [more below]
- Author: Bartlett, W. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1398110418
- Language: English
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Francis of Assisi: The Life
$14.95 Add to cartThis elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism’s most beloved saints was originally published as Part 1 of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. It stands alone a
- Author: Thompson, Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0801479061
- Language: English
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The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon’s Temple to the Freemasons
$19.99 Add to cartArguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular
- Author: Haag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061775932
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
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Orlando Furioso
$17.95 Add to cartThe only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso–a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France–this version faithfully recaptures the en… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ariosto, Ludovico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540381
- Language: English
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Antony and Cleopatra
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of Antony and Cleopatra is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0198393342
- Language: English
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Purgatorio
$28.99 Add to cartIn the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante th… [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri #2
- Author: Durling, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195087453
- Language: English
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The Alchemist’s Handbook: A Practical Manual
$18.95 Read more“If you really want to learn the basic principles of practical alchemy, Frater Albertus’ Alchemist’s Handbook is literally is worth its weight in gold.”–from the foreword by Israel Regardie, author o… [more below]
- Series: Weiser Classics
- Author: Albertus, Frater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578637651
- Language: English
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The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
$19.95 Read moreReveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture–hidden in plain sight for centuries
– Follows the authors’ anthropological adve- Author: Brown, Jerry B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2016
- ISBN10: 1620555026
- Language: English
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Free Market: The History of an Idea
$32.00 Read moreFrom a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free mark
- Author: Soll, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0465049702
- Language: English
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The Hammer of Witches: Malleus Maleficarum: The Most Influential Book of Witchcraft
$16.00 Add to cartThe Malleus Maleficarum or “Hammer of Witches” is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft. It endorses extermination of witches and for this purpose develops a detailed legal and … [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8026892240
- Language: English
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Elucidation of Necromancy Lucidarium Artis Nigromantice Attributed to Peter of Abano: Including a New Translation of His Heptameron or Elements of Mag
$55.00 Add to cart- Author: Peterson, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0892541997
- Language: English
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Stellas Daemonum: The Orders of the Daemons (Weiser Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
$60.00 Read moreAn original, beautifully produced work (see specifications, photos, and video below) that explores the “star demons” and their correspondences in magic and astrology as revealed in the medieval grimoi… [more below]
- Series: Weiser Classics
- Author: Crowhurst, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578636914
- Language: English
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Witchcraze: New History of the European Witch Hunts, a
$18.99 Add to cart“In the sixteenth century, a rise in sexual violence in European society was exacerbated by pressure from church and state to change basic sexual customs…As the centuries since have shown escalating… [more below]
- Author: Barstow, Anne L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 24 1995
- ISBN10: 0062510363
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
