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The Dance of Death
A new departure in Penguin Classics- a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabre One of Holbein's first great triumphs, The...
Chronicles of the Crusades
A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint...
The Divine Comedy: Volume 5
Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dantes Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieris epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven.Divine...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
The King's Jewel: from the bestselling author comes a new historical
*Now with an exclusive extract of Elizabeth Chadwick's next novel, The Royal Rebel - only in the paperback!*Wales, 1093.The warm, comfortable family life of young Nesta, daughter of Prince Rhys...
Every Rising Sun: A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One
'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIANBefore she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the...
The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery
The Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader's new book. In 1418, 17...
The Night of the Wolf
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The ruthless reign of Henry IV and the clerical tyranny of Archbishop Arundel keep Brother Chandler and his friends under constant threat in this gripping medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Rodric...
The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and
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In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and England. His art of attacking...
Papal Judges Delegate in the Province of Canterbury, 1198-1254: A
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This book is concerned with the ecclesiastical courts set up by the papacy to hear specific cases on its behalf in the localities. It embodies the results of the examination...
The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain
The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical...
Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg,
"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex
This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in...
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world...
Survivors in Mexico
West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...
Alternative History of Britain: The War of the Roses
Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given...
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185
The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with...
Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...
Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach
Histories of the Hundred Years War have been written, and accounts of the famous battles, but until now no book has concentrated on the sieges that played a decisive role...
The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law
Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified...
Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China
Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in...
Murder at Beaulieu Abbey
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Death and danger await intrepid nun Hildegard of Meaux when she undertakes a secret mission for the good of her Order, in this eleventh action-packed installment of the medieval mystery...
The Riverwoman's Dragon
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When the wise woman Magda Digby is suspected of murder, Owen Archer sets out to prove her innocence in this intricately plotted medieval mystery. May, 1375. Owen Archer returns from...
Banners of Hell: Hugh Corbett 24
Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons . . .Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to the...
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns: Bristol, York and the Crown, 1350-1400
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Caesar
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350
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The Vikings
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Author: Helen Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all those...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Author: Ian Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world- England in the Middle Ages. Discover an original, entertaining and...
Blood & Roses
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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to...
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...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be...
Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe
Author: Derry Brabbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West Pilgrimage in Europe...