Europe - Medieval
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Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
$29.99 Add to cart“Rich and lively.”–New York Times Book Review
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it’s the year 1600 and yo- Author: Stanmore, Tabitha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730532
- Language: English
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The Knight in History
$18.99 Add to cartA magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight
“A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagina
- Series: Medieval Life #3
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0060914130
- Language: English
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Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens
$45.00 Add to cartMedieval women ruled over kingdoms, abbeys, and households; produced stunning works of art and craft; and did the hard work that kept ordinary families fed and clothed. Though women’s contributions we
- Author: Hollman, Gemma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214962
- Language: English
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Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
$29.99 Add to cartIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pi… [more below]
- Author: Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0198701292
- Language: English
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Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
$23.00 Add to cart“A colossal book written by a colossus in the field” (The New York Review of Books): A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by on… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1101974109
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II: From the Caesars to the Peace of Westphalia and Louis XIV, A.D. 14-1661
$69.99 Add to cartIn this sweeping second volume of the series, The Political and Strategic History of the World, Volume II: From the Caesars to the Peace of Westphalia and Louis XIV, A.D. 14-166, covers the height and
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1943003955
- Language: English
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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
$38.00 Add to cartA fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts
Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Ital- Author: Lawrence-Mathers, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300244436
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1401308503
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
$27.99 Add to cartImmersed in mist and old magic, Storyland is an exquisitely illustrated new mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. Historian and printmaker Amy Jeffs reimagines ancient legends in wondro… [more below]
- Author: Jeffs, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 152488233X
- Language: English
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
$29.95 Add to cartAn invaluable reassessment of what we think we know about the daily lives of women in medieval Europe.
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife charts the lives and times of four medieval women writers–Marie de Fra- Author: Howes, Hetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0520396588
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzlin
- Author: Lyons, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1608190587
- Language: English
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
$32.00 Add to cartThe authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones–the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wo
- Author: Gabriele, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0063336677
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
$34.00 Read moreReading has become a problem–not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion. The questions of how and what to read are not just matters o
- Author: Tichelkamp, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486738
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266: The Norman-Swabian Age and the Identity of a People
$56.00 Add to cartA defining reference work whose engaging narrative brings southern Italy’s Middle Ages to life.
This is the first major history written in English about the Kingdom of Sicily under its Hauteville and- Series: Sicilian Medieval Studies
- Author: Mendola, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 820
- Publish Date: September 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1943639396
- Language: English
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Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation
$35.00 Add to cartDomesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history–and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Lati… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Martin, G. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1456
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0141439947
- Language: English
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Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia de Los Templarios
$13.95 Read more- Author: Fernandez Munoz, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8411314030
- Language: Spanish
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Metamorphosis and Identity
$24.95 Read moreIn Metamorphosis and Identity, award-winning historian Caroline Walker Bynum explores the Western obsession with the nature of change and personal identity. Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth cent
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951234
- Language: English
