Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Merchant’s Daughter
$12.99 Add to cartAn unthinkable danger. An unexpected choice. Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and bea
- Series: Fairy Tale Romance
- Author: Dickerson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0310727618
- Language: English
-
Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
$8.95 Add to cartFrom the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of Gwynevere and Sir Lancelot, these tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table offer epic adventures with the supernatural as well as… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Baines, Keith
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531493
- Language: English
-
The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems
$16.99 Add to cartPassed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods a… [more below]
- Author: Bellows, Henry Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0486460215
- Language: English
-
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
$19.99 Add to cartThe unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers
- Author: Merkle, Benjamin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595552529
- Language: English
-
Revelations of Divine Love
$17.95 Add to cart‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well’
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subt- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Julian of Norwich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199641188
- Language: English
-
Red: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages
The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up th- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0691172773
- Language: English
-
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$29.99 Add to cartEuropeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid an
- Author: Bale, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064579
- Language: English
