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Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence and the David, 1492-1504
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Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Prince
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A Brief History of the Knights Templar
Author: Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history...
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on...
Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
Author: Robin Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Author: Jonathan Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The riveting and definitive biography of the Islamic world's most famous military hero 'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One...
The Vikings
Author: Else Roesdahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
Author: Janet L. Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks,...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Author: Barbara Tuchman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century...
The Odyssey
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a...
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 What you see depends on where - and when - you are looking from. As this enthralling book shows,...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
Author: Peter Heather Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians...
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray
Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Following his bestselling short histories of England and Europe comes the final in the trilogy- LONDON LONDON- a settlement...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Author: Ibn Fadlan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
The Name of the Rose
Author: Umberto Eco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The ground-breaking first novel from Umberto Eco - a murder mystery, an enthralling chronicle of the Middle Ages, a...
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City
Author: Caroline Bruzelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
Medieval Ornament/Ornement Medieval/Mittelalterlich Ornamente
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Author: Florence Curt Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 123 Covering the 17th through the early 20th centuries, each title in this renowned series concentrates on a specific theme...