Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) Studies
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Inferno: A New Verse Translation
$28.99 Add to cartUnlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante’s masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American… [more below]
- Series: New Verse Translation by Michael Palma
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393323870
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
$18.99 Add to cartAs the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning… Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316511579
- Language: English
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A History of the Vikings
$26.99 Add to cart“An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.”– Scandinavian Studies
The subject o- Author: Jones, Gwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801341
- Language: English
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The Kite Rider
$15.99 Read moreGeraldine McCaughrean–two-time Carnegie Medalist for Where the World Ends and Pack of Lies–delivers a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic, dangerous worl
- Author: McCaughrean, Geraldine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: September 23, 2003
- ISBN10: 0064410919
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Britain: Cheers to the Crown, Churchill, Shakespeare, the Beatles, and All Things British!
$24.95 Read moreFrom woolly mammoths and eight-foot beavers on the River Thames to plagues and civil wars, from tea to castles and cathedrals, and everything in between, The Big Book of Britain is a compendium of the
- Author: Rayborn, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1646433084
- Language: English
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
$26.99 Read moreThe most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated. Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, … [more below]
- Series: Monks of the Monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterbor
- Author: Swanton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1842120034
- 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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Selected Poems
$20.00 Add to cartDesigned to make Bertolt Brecht’s work accessible for today’s audience, this bilingual collection shows the range of the German poet’s insightful and compelling poetry.
Bertolt Brecht is counted as one
- Author: Brecht, Bertolt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156806460
- Language: English
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Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays
$13.95 Add to cartThe haunting poetry of [Oz’s] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture.” —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a tw- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156001926
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$12.95 Add to cartWhen the Spanish took over Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries they made certain to destroy the writings and holy books of the native Mayans in an effort to convert them to Christianity. Fe… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1585092363
- 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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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
$26.95 Read moreAn insightful account of how medieval people experienced time.
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical–from creation thr- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Adler, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146798
- Language: English
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Tribes into Nations: the Early History of the British Isles
$40.00 Add to cartTribes into Nations takes a fresh look at the ethnic and cultural evolution of the British Isles. It challenges the long tradition of Anglocentric history which saw the past through the prism of Empir
- Author: Bristow-Smith, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1399932837
- Language: English
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Soul Is Here for It’s Own Joy
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 1999
- ISBN10: 088001475X
- 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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Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You
$14.95 Add to cart“Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d’Arc — who here is a composite of hist
- Author: Campos, Isabel Sobral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0692150293
- 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
