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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century more books like this

by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman ...

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The Return of Martin Guerre

The Return of Martin Guerre more books like this

by Natalie Zemon Davis

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. ...

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World more books like this

by Jack Weatherford

Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed.

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The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller

The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller more books like this

by Carlo Ginzburg

"A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of Books

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World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age

World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age more books like this

by William Manchester

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to ...

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The humanistic tradition. Book 2, Medieval Europe and the world beyond

The humanistic tradition. Book 2, Medieval Europe and the world beyond more books like this

by Gloria K. Fiero

Beginning with the birth of Christianity and of Buddhism, the second book of The Humanistic Tradition offers a wide-ranging look at the period from 0-1300 C.E. The book addresses the interaction between religion and culture in emerging Islamic societies while also drawing on art, music, literature, and architecture to draw a vivid portrait of ...

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The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion more books like this

by Robert Spencer

New York Times" bestselling author and Islam expert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam--a portrait that is unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammads life that continue to affect the world today.

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1066, the year of the conquest

1066, the year of the conquest more books like this

by David Howarth

Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early January to the Christmas coronation of Duke William of Normandy, there is an almost uncanny symmetry, as well as a ...

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Story of Civilization more books like this

by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

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Cruel as the Grave

Cruel as the Grave more books like this

by Sharon K. Penman

In April, 1193, England's King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison while his younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle. Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen's man", Justin de Quincy, to mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid these fateful events, de Quincy also investigates the violent murder of a ...

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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World more books like this

by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger

In light of late-20th-century interest in the end of the second millennium, the authors of this title present a portrait of what life was like at the end of the first millennium. Included are descriptions of daily life, clothing trends, medical practices, and more, all related to life in 10th-century medieval Europe, and organized around ...

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History of the World more books like this

by Marvin Perry

(TofC cont.) New nations in Latin America (1780-1911); Reaction and revolution in Europe (1770-1850) -- Industrialization and its impact (1750-1914): West in the Industrial Age (1750-1914); Nationalism in Europe (1815-1914) -- Europe in the late 1800's (1850-1914) -- Western imperialism (1763-1914): Expansion of the western world (1800-1914); Asia ...

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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time more books like this

by John Kelly, B.A.

John Kelly's history of the Black Death is a colorful, compulsively readable, and very complete look at the subject, including his theory of what caused it (the rapid growth of trade, i.e. ships spreading disease from port to port) and also of what sprang from it: the middle class, property law, and the persecution of the Jews (who, of course, ...

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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the four Kings more books like this

by Amy Ruth Kelly

This account of Queen Eleanor and her century is offered as a study of individuals who set their stamp upon the events of their time, rather than as a study of developing systems of politics, economics, or jurisprudence.

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Knights and Castles more books like this

by Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne

What was it like to wear armor? What was the food like in castles? This non-fiction companion to "The Knight at Dawn" explores what life was really like in medieval times. Illustrations.

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Two Lives of Charlemagne more books like this

by T Notker Einhard, Notker, Lewis Thorpe (Translator)

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage aknown as the father of Europeawas one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from two perspectives: that of Einhard, a close friend and ...

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Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur more books like this

by Bernard Cornwell

"The best Arthurian fiction since Gillian Bradshaw, if not Mary Stewart herself" ("The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"), "Excalibur" offers a brilliant conclusion to Cornwell's popular Arthurian trilogy.

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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe more books like this

by Nancy Goldstone

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 13th century comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence, whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.

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Lion of Ireland more books like this

by Morgan Llywelyn

The legend of Brian Boru, the greatest king of Ireland.

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Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain more books like this

by Maria Rosa Menocal, Professor Harold Bloom (Foreword by)

This history of the Andalusian legacy reveals how, for a time, the three monotheistic faiths were able to coexist comfortably amongst each other and flourish.

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A history of the Crusades. more books like this

by Sir Steven Runciman

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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made more books like this

by N Cantor

This history of the outbreak of bubonic plague that devastated the population of Europe in the 14th century examines a wide range of historical events and social changes that the author attributes to the Black Death.

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The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century more books like this

by Ross E. Dunn

Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.

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The Malleus Maleficarum of Kramer and Sprenger more books like this

by Montague Summers (Editor), Heinrich Institoris

Full text of most important witchhunter's "bible," used by both Catholics and Protestants. First published in 1486, the book includes everything known at the time about cults, illicit sex, dealings with the devil, and more.

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A short history of Byzantium more books like this

by John Julius Norwich

Published to coincide with a major exhibition on Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 1997, "Byzantium" tells the dramatic story of Byzantium, from its beginnings in A.D. 330, providing readers with a spirited, gripping, and original account of a great lost civilization and its magnificent artistic heritage. in full color.

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