Medieval
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The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
$16.95 Add to cart- Series: Harbrace Paperbound Library
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0156659751
- Language: English
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Prophet of Blood
$29.99 Add to cartAutumn, AD 672. While out walking, Abbot Brocc was shocked to encounter the sinister apparition of a young woman, cloaked entirely in grey, who foretold his impending death. Dismissing the soothsayer’
- Series: Sister Fidelma Mystery #34
- Author: Tremayne, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1448309816
- Language: English
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Every Rising Sun: A Retelling of the One Thousand and One Nights
$19.99 Add to cartIn this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit and political mastery to navigate opulent palaces brimming with treachery and the perils of
- Author: Ahmed, Jamila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250887097
- Language: English
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
$43.68 Add to cart“King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history.”–The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary fi- Author: Nelson, Janet L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 520314204
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
$17.99 Add to cartA gripping tale of one of history’s most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature
In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of S
- Author: Waller, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402219431
- Language: English
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Maimonides: Guide for Today’s Perplexed
$21.95 Add to cartThe classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language.
- Author: Seeskin, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0874415098
- Language: English
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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
$24.95 Add to cartThe Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles – throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world’s most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here ch
- Author: Russell, Jeffrey Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 1992
- ISBN10: 0801480566
- Language: English
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1215
$20.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Danny Danziger and medieval expert John Gillingham comes a vivid look at the signing of the Magna Carta and how this event illuminates one of the most compelling and romantic p… [more below]
- Author: Danziger, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743257782
- Language: English
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Bright We Burn
$10.99 Read moreThe tumultuous, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the New York Times bestselling And I Darken series. Who will live? Who will die? And who will rule triumphant?
SOME LOVES HEAL
Haunted over the unknown f- Series: And I Darken #3
- Author: White, Kiersten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0553522426
- Language: English
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
$63.75 Add to cartThis is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
- Author: Halsall, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 614
- Publish Date: December 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0521435439
- Language: English
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The Stones of Florence
$18.99 Add to cartA journey through the glorious Italian city’s scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group.
Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayis… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027631
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Add to cartMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
$11.99 Add to cartA brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treas
- Author: Bridgeford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2004
- ISBN10: 184115041X
- Language: English
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Richard of Saint Victor, On the Trinity
$51.00 Add to cartVery few in the history of the church have not struggled with the dogma of the Trinity. Those who have not dismissed it as incomprehensible gibberish have found it a battlefield for division and misun… [more below]
- Author: Angelici, Ruben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1498213367
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War: 1337-1453
$20.00 Read moreAn illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.
There can be no doubt that military conflict between- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Curry, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857062
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?
Western exceptionalism–the idea that E- Author: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774396
- Language: English
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Saga of the People of Weapon’s Fjord (Vápnfirðinga Saga): A New English Translation with Old Norse Text, Vocabulary, and Maps
$14.99 Add to cartThe Saga of the People of Weapon’s Fjord (Vápnfirðinga Saga) is a masterpiece of saga telling. It recounts blood feud in Iceland during the Viking Age and takes the reader deep into struggles for po
- Author: Byock, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1953947131
- Language: English
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History of Africa for Kids: A Captivating Guide to African History, from Ancient Times through the Middle Ages to the Modern Era
$34.99 Add to cartThree manuscripts in one book:
- African History for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the History of Africa
- Ancient Africa for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Ancient African Civilizations, Empires, and History
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 163716906X
- Language: English
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Mediaeval Feudalism
$17.95 Add to cart“In the following pages I have tried to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the historical significance of the feudal system…. My purpose has not been to give a comprehensive description o
- Series: Great Seal Books
- Author: Stephenson, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 15 1956
- ISBN10: 0801490138
- Language: English
