Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- Language: English
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Joyful Beggar: A Novel of St. Francis of Assisi
$19.95 Add to cartIn this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant’s son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became ins
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0898708141
- Language: English
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Taming the Highland Bride
$9.99 Add to cart“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
—New York Times bestselling author Christina DoddLynsay Sands–the perennial USA Today and New York Times bestselling author well-known and love
- Series: Historical Highlands #2
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0061344788
- Language: English
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi
$19.95 Add to cart“Francis, go and build up My house, which as thou seest, is falling into ruin.” To fulfill this command of Our Lord, St. Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) began by restoring physical churches and conti… [more below]
- Series: Tan Classics
- Author: St Bonaventure, Bonaventure
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0895551519
- Language: English
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Godric
$19.99 Add to cartFrederick Buechner’s Godric “retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride…Sin, spirit… [more below]
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0060611626
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Read moreThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- Language: English
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The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
$18.00 Add to cart“[A] riveting story… you owe it to yourself to pick up The Last Viking. It’s that exciting, that good.”–The Washington Post
A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada of Norw- Series: Reeds Marine Deck
- Author: Hollway, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1472846508
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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The Vision of God
$13.95 Add to cartNicholas of Cusa was a Christian mystic who lived during the 1400s. The Vision of God is known as a classic of Christian mysticism, putting many believers in touch with the divine.
Many Christians have
- Author: Nicholas of Cusa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1585090042
- Language: English
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages
$19.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center- Author: Fauvelle, Fran?ois-Xavier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217149
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity
$37.43 Read moreA cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs.
Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyr- Author: Smith, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 520345169
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$35.99 Add to cartA knight, a monk, a merchant, a summoner, and a wife all walk into an inn, and realize they are in the company of many others who intend to make the same pilgrimage to Canterbury. As a group of Engli
- Series: Mint Editions
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1513136852
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Monk’s Hood
$19.99 Add to cartSilver Dagger Award Winner: In this medieval mystery, Brother Cadfael faces suspicion when one of his herbal ingredients is used to kill a man.
Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint P- Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #3
- Author: Peters, Ellis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1504001974
- Language: English
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Purgatory
$17.00 Add to cartThe second volume in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Beginning with Dante’s liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory – a mountain of nine levels, for- Series: Divine Comedy (Penguin Paperback)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140444424
- Language: English
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Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
$8.99 Add to cartRead the book that inspired Studio Ghibli’s series, Ronja the Robber’s Daughter A thrilling adventure crafted by the author of Pippi Longstocking
On the night Ronia was born, a thunderstorm raged ove- Author: Lindgren, Astrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140317201
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1401308503
- Language: English
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Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
$29.95 Add to cartA great deal is now known about the brilliant Khmer civilization that flourished among the monsoon forests and rice paddies of mainland Southeast Asia, thanks to the pioneering work of French scholars… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Peoples and Places #0
- Author: Coe, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0500284423
- Language: English
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The King’s Fifth: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$15.99 Add to cartA 1967 Newbery Honor Book
While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adve- Author: O’Dell, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618747834
- Language: English
