Medieval
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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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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 Read moreThis 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 Read moreThe 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
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Ch Ronicle/Bede’s Letter to Egbert
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede’s most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537232
- Language: English
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Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
$35.00 Add to cartIn the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, ear
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1935408119
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Read moreA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Carrasco, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0195379381
- Language: English
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Yellow: The History of a Color
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present
In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 069119825X
- Language: English
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On Christian Teaching
$12.95 Add to cartThe De Doctrina Christiana (“On Christian Teaching”) is one of Augustine’s most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the develo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Augustine, St
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540632
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation
$19.95 Read moreFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem
The Owl and the Nightingale, one- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #134
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0691202168
- Language: English
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
$30.00 Add to cartA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII
“A delight–immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, ful
- Author: Wellesley, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675088
- Language: English
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Blue: The History of a Color
$42.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the ages
Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181365
- Language: English
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Study Guide to Beowulf
$12.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry. As one of … [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645420361
- Language: English
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though … [more below]
- Author: Cantor, Norman F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797749
- Language: English
