Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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The Poetic Edda
$24.95 Add to cart“She sees, coming up a second time,
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnaro
earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198834578
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Castle and Village Coloring Book
$5.99 Add to cartThis fascinating book combines the creative fun of coloring with an exciting sense of discovery as it realistically portrays many facets of life during the Middle Ages, one of history’s most dramatic … [more below]
- Series: Dover History Coloring Book
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486265420
- Language: English
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The Patron Thief of Bread
$11.99 Add to cartA beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic–and gargoyles!–from the acclaimed author of Hour of the Bees and Race to the Bottom of the Sea.
Fished from the river as an infant and rais- Author: Eagar, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1536229601
- Language: English
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The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History
$32.99 Add to cartDespite Muhammad’s exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur’an because of an astounding lack of verifiab… [more below]
- Author: Ohlig, Karl-Heinz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591026342
- Language: English
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The Complete Gormenghast Novels
$32.00 Add to cart“A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary imagination” (The New Yorker), The Gormenghast Novels collects Mervyn Peake’s classic fantasy trilogy.
“The true fantasy classic of our tim- Author: Peake, Mervyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879516283
- Language: English
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Crispin: The End of Time
$9.99 Add to cartAs long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I’d be true to Bear’s teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom.
After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Cr
- Series: Crispin (Paperback)
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0061740837
- Language: English
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The Faerie Queene
$22.00 Add to cart‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light
Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Spenser, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: January 25 1979
- ISBN10: 0140422072
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$7.99 Read moreIt is the mid-seventeenth century in Boston. Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by members of the Puritan town. Holding her illegitimate child to he… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435171608
- Language: English
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
$39.99 Add to cartBeginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume–the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World–chronicles the co… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0393059766
- Language: English
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The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide
$13.99 Add to cartThe indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar.
In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible- Author: Bradford, Ernle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1497637864
- Language: English
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
$25.00 Add to cart“The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117424
- Language: English
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The Healer’s Apprentice
$12.99 Add to cartA realistic, fast-paced reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale full of royalty, romance, and danger. This masterful combination of love and heartbreak–combined with the novel’s surprise ending-
- Series: Fairy Tale Romance
- Author: Dickerson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0310721431
- Language: English
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Athens: City of Wisdom
$21.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis s- Author: Clark, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363645
- Language: English
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The Book of the City of Ladies
$16.00 Add to cartA fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France’s first professional woman of letters
The pioneering Book of the City of Lad- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Pizan, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446893
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$17.95 Add to cartThis single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante’s Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535647
- Language: English
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The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
$29.95 Add to cartFor nearly three centuries Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches’ Hammer) was the professional manual for witch hunters. This work by two of the most famous Inquisitors of the age is still a document of th… [more below]
- Series: Dover Occult
- Author: Summers, Montague
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486228029
- Language: English
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The Lions of Al-Rassan
$19.99 Add to cartAward-wining author Guy Gavriel’s sixth novel, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, is both a brilliant adventure and a moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women wh
- Author: Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0060733497
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$13.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.
‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;
Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 30 1959
- ISBN10: 0140440925
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartEngland–begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor–is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven b… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hawes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198148
- Language: English
