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A Companion to the Medieval World (Blackwell Companions to European History #10)
Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. ...more |
Carol Lansing |
2010-03-09 |
$199.95 |
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A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically ...more |
William Chester Jordan |
2009-08-10 |
$35.00 |
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A Visit to Iceland
Informative 1852 travelogue by an adventurous and interesting woman. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. ...more |
Madame Ida Pfeiffer |
2009-03-28 |
$4.95 |
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Amazing Stories of Female Executions
In these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber the fairer sex get it in the neck. You have been warned. From the Yorkshire Witch, who was accused of murder when a potion for good health turned out to be fatal, to the woman who survived ...more |
Geoffrey Abbott |
2009-12-01 |
$14.99 |
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Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Becoming |
Jeff Sypeck |
2009-11-07 |
$10.99 |
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Byzantium
So what's so significant about the Byzantine Empire? It is now recognised as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a significant impact in the shaping modern Europe and modern historians are increasingly acknowledging the role the ...more |
Giles Morgan |
2009-08-06 |
$19.99 |
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Four Queens
Four accomplished sisters who rose from near obscurity to become the most powerful women in Europe Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four ...more |
Nancy Goldstone |
2010-02-16 |
$24.95 |
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Holy Warriors
"Jonathan Phillips' Holy Warriors is a superb book, one written with an elegant blend of clarity and zest. Its author demonstrates his mastery of all the relevant scholarship, from the oldest to the most recent, but he may be most successful in his ability ...more |
Jonathan Phillips |
2010-03-09 |
$30.00 |
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Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England
Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not only are these works of considerable religious interest, they provide extensive information on ...more |
Siegfried Wenzel |
2010-03-09 |
$70.00 |
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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Langua ...more |
Paul Maurice Clogan |
2010-01-20 |
$90.00 |
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Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society, c.1066-c.1600
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John C. Appleby |
2009-11-30 |
$99.95 |
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Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and ...more |
Warren S. Smith |
2010-03-09 |
$80.00 |
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Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Christ
In this comprehensive look at life in the time of Jesus, Edersheim examines Jewish homelife, marriage customs, worship, literature, and much more. ...more |
Alfred Edersheim |
2009-03-28 |
$4.95 |
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Spain 1157 - 1312: A Partible Inheritance
Spain, 1150-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as well as of European history. - Examines the most significant phase of Spanish mainland development
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Peter Linehan |
2010-02-20 |
$99.95 |
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St George - The Pocket Essential Guide
St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around the third century AD. But England is only one country ...more |
Giles Morgan |
2009-12-01 |
$14.99 |
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The Birth of Europe: 400 - 1500
In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history. - "[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment
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Jacques Le Goff |
2009-03-28 |
$83.95 |
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The Forge of Christendom
TOM HOLLAND gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his Ph.
D. at Oxford. He is the author of the critically acclaimed works of history Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Empire and Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for |
Tom Holland |
2009-05-01 |
$30.00 |
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The Gnostics - The First Christian Heretics
Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost became the dominant form of Christianity. Yet some Gnostic beliefs ...more |
Sean Martin |
2009-12-01 |
$14.99 |
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The Saint and the Sultan
Paul Moses, former Newsday city editor and senior religion writer, is professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He currently contributes to Commonweal and its blog. He lives in ...more |
Paul Moses |
2009-12-08 |
$26.00 |
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The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)
Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that ...more |
Joseph Patrick Huffman |
2009-11-30 |
$85.00 |
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