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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...
Lost City of the Incas
Author: Hiram Bingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged...
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...
Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting History with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
Author: Lisa Hilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan...
Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe
Author: Thelma Fenster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and...
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...