Medieval
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic (American Edition)
$39.99 Add to cartThe official companion book to the special exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, featuring an extraordinary treasure trove of magical artifacts, original drafts and drawings by J.K. Rowling, an… [more below]
- Author: British Library
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 09, 2018
- ISBN10: 1338311506
- Language: English
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Inferno
$30.00 Add to cartPart of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, ta… [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy (Penguin Hardcover)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28, 2010
- ISBN10: 0141195878
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
$21.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, a literary time machine that takes readers into the sights, smells, and tastes of the fourteenth century–a book that is revolutionary in its concept and startling in its portrayal o… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1439112908
- Language: English
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Haven
$17.99 Add to cartIn this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their l
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0316414131
- Language: English
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
$18.95 Add to cartFollow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.
An acclaimed- Author: Jarman, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365427
- Language: English
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
$20.00 Add to cartA major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones.
For more than one thousa- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 0143108972
- Language: English
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
$24.00 Add to cartThe Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge–a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness
- Author: Asbridge, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0060787295
- Language: English
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The Only Witness: A History of the Shroud Of Turin
$25.99 Add to cartJesus’ burial cloth could be the most important Christian relic. Men and women risked their lives to save it – and destroy it. Can it survive war, famine, plagues, and earthquakes? Lives, reputations,
- Author: Powell, Guy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1951310462
- Language: English
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The Door in the Wall: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$7.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL – An uplifting story of resilience set in medieval times about a boy who learns to overcome obstacles and ultimately save the castle. This historical fiction novel is a cla
- Author: De Angeli, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01, 1990
- ISBN10: 0440402832
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$19.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, Ne- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730753
- Language: English
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The Consolation of Philosophy
$14.95 Add to cartBoethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540543
- Language: English
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
$14.95 Read moreAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English–and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old Eng- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691237182
- Language: English
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
$21.00 Add to cartThe Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the ‘image’ d
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 30, 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604702
- Language: English
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Twinkind: The Singular Significance of Twins
$35.00 Read moreAn arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual culture
Twins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history- Author: Viney, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254753
- Language: English
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The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy
$27.99 Read moreStep into the luminous world of illuminated letters–where history, creativity, and mindful artistry converge. Transform blank pages into radiant masterpieces with the definitive guide to decorative c
- Series: Quarto Book
- Author: Morgan, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0764158201
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Stormbringer
$29.99 Add to cartSummer, AD 672. Princess Gelg�is has arrived in Cashel with her personal bodyguard, a troop of female warriors called the Daughters of the Storm. When one of them is found slain next to the sle
- Series: Sister Fidelma Mystery #34
- Author: Tremayne, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1448309808
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$6.99 Add to cartLively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553210823
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Viking
$16.99 Add to cartBecome an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings.
This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture … [more below]- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593842391
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBeyond all doubt the greatest work of English literature before Shakespeare, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0199599025
- Language: English
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Lady of Disguise
$19.99 Read moreOnly the hidden treasure will allow Louisa and her sister to gain their freedom.
England, 1388: All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored “Giant’s Treasure,” a collection of ancient, lost
- Author: Dickerson, Melanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 084070867X
- Language: English
