Medieval
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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Coats of Arms: An Introduction to The Science and Art of Heraldry
$21.95 Add to cartWith full-color pages accessible to readers of any age, this how and why quick-start guide explains knighthood and nobility and royalty, what coats of arms mean, how to create your own, and how to ass
- Author: Fountain, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996958
- Language: English
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White: The History of a Color
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to today
As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0691243492
- Language: English
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales: (Original-Spelling Edition)
$24.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English
The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of soci- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1328
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 014042234X
- Language: English
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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel
$18.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling historians Joseph and Frances Gies, whose books have been used by George R.R. Martin as source material for Game of Thrones, comes a classic book on innovation and technological chang
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0060925817
- Language: English
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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartWas the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians i… [more below]
- Author: Ward-Perkins, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0192807285
- Language: English
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The Boleyns of Hever Castle
$27.99 Add to cartHever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglian gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at t
- Author: Emmerson, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8412232569
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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In the Serpent’s Wake
$12.99 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Seraphina comes a piercing new fantasy-adventure that champions our resilience and humility.
MIND OF THE WORLD, OPEN YOUR EYES. At the bottom of- Author: Hartman, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1101931353
- Language: English
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
$37.95 Add to cartWith a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special paperback edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France,… [more below]
- Author: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807616133
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$49.92 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691153434
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Resistance
$15.99 Add to cartFrom Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals, comes the captivating sequel to the Renaissance France-inspired epic fantasy The Queen’s Rising.
Brienna is a mistress of knowl
- Series: Queen’s Rising #2
- Author: Ross, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062471392
- Language: English
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Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science
$18.99 Read moreConjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase ‘medieval medicine’ sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygien… [more below]
- Author: Mount, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2016
- ISBN10: 144565542X
- Language: English
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry
$22.00 Add to cartPacked with dramatic true stories from one of European history’s most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled En… [more below]
- Series: England’s Medieval Queens
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1101966742
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
$13.95 Add to cartThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202–as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, in the region of West Suffolk–affords many unique ins… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Jocelin of Brakelond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554935
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatory
$17.00 Add to cartThe second volume of 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, form- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 1955
- ISBN10: 0140440461
- Language: English
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
$16.95 Add to cartThis startling new translation of Dante’s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland’s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also re… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590171144
- Language: English
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Legends of Little Canada: Aunt Rose, Harvey’s Bookland, and My Captain Jack
$20.00 Read moreOn the cusp of becoming a teenager, Charlie Gargiulo lived through the planned destruction of the Little Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Mass., in the 1960s. This is his story. He went on to become a l
- Author: Gargiulo, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0931507537
- Language: English
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Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World
$18.95 Add to cartThe original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English
The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medie- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Gruffydd, Elis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0520390253
- Language: English
