Medieval
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History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics
$9.99 Add to cartMyths Lies Secrets Uncover the hidden truth about history’s pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19. Perfect for fans of I Survived and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.
During the Black Death in- Series: History Smashers
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 059312040X
- Language: English
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The Inferno
$20.00 Add to cart“Probably the most finely accomplished and … most enduring” translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dant… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0385496982
- Language: English
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One Night in Hartswood
$18.99 Add to cart‘A thrilling, heart-stealing historic romp and achingly romantic.’ M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood
‘A heartwarming tale of forbidden love that captured my heart from its ope
- Series: Barden #1
- Author: Denny, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0008620075
- Language: English
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The Wages of Sin
$27.99 Add to cartA terrifying tale about HIV spreading in the early sixteenth century by an author, Publisher Weekly calls “The Master of Alternate History.”
What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than
- Author: Turtledove, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1647100925
- Language: English
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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and illuminating new history–separate fact from fiction, myth from legend–exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combin- Author: Whittock, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365354
- Language: English
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
$32.99 Add to cartTHE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZE
A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read?A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been … [more below]
- Author: Ramirez, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335498524
- Language: English
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Essex Dogs
$19.00 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years’ War. July 1346. Ten men land on the- Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137638
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot’s Round Table festivities
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0393334155
- Language: English
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225877
- Language: English
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Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
$19.00 Add to cart“This is not your grandmother’s St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight.”–The New
- Author: Chen, Katherine J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1984855824
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$11.00 Add to cartNevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer creat
A Penguin Classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 04, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140424385
- Language: English
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The Knight of Little Import
$19.99 Read morePoor Charlie is a young knight who can’t find a single beast to slay. If only the town of Little Import weren’t so quiet. Hark! What is that? It’s Mr. Galette, and he has a problem in his bakery. Clev
- Author: Batsel, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1728450993
- Language: English
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Matrix
$18.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of- Author: Groff, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1594634505
- Language: English
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
$15.95 Add to cartComposed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393320979
- Language: English
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Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
$20.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!
“A total, rollicking delight. Gwen & Art gave me the same cheeky, swoony, giddy, irresistible high of the first time I saw A Knight’s Tale. Lex Croucher is one of- Author: Croucher, Lex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250847214
- Language: English
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Africa and Byzantium
$65.00 Read moreThe first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world
Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but les- Author: Myers Achi, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397718
- Language: English
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The Midwife’s Apprentice: A Newbery Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartA poor girl in medieval England gains a name, a purpose, and a future in this “delightful”* and beloved Newbery Medal-winning book. Now with a new cover!
* “A truly delightful introduction to a world s
- Author: Cushman, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 30, 2019
- ISBN10: 1328631125
- Language: English
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The Cross of Lead
$8.99 Add to cartWinner of the Newbery Medal, Crispin: The Cross of Lead is an action-packed mystery and adventure from master storyteller Avi.
Sometimes I ran, sometimes all I could do was walk. All I knew was that i- Series: Crispin
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 0786816589
- Language: English
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The Wife of Willesden
$18.00 Add to cartZadie Smith’s first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic The Wife of Bath
“Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.
She plays ma- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593653734
- Language: English
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Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
$28.95 Read moreThe remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece–the Venetian mappa mundi–that revolutionized how we see the world.
In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the wo- Author: Small, Meredith Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364196
- Language: English
