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1	Medieval technology and social change more books like this by Lynn White add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	King of the Confessors more books like this by Thomas Hoving add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Medieval cities; their origins and the revival of trade. more books like this by Henri Pirenne add to wishlist Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument - known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe - that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.53! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History more books like this by Barbara A Hanawalt add to wishlist When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $23.24! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Medieval Women more books like this by Eileen E Power, M Poston add to wishlist Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book on women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she collected found its way into her popular lectures on medieval women. These lectures are now brought together, edited by M. M. Postan, and reveal the world in which women ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony more books like this by Madeline Pelner Cosman add to wishlist Foods are cultural insifnia. Few indicators define people so well as its foodlore. Food taboos and food celebrations are important to a culture's notions od sacrement and sin, praise and punishment, deprivation and indulgence, vigilant discipline and sustained extravagance. Medieval England's courtly appetites for splendour are evident in cookery ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $9.89! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century more books like this by Professor Georges Duby add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.92! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 more books like this by Janet L Abu-Lughod add to wishlist In this portrait of world trade before the age of European Hegemony, Janet Abu-Lughod examines global commercial connections among a large number of cities between the years 1250 and 1350. The work offers a reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the European world system of the sixteenth century had its origins in an earlier ... see all copies from $15.68! new only from $21.62! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages more books like this by Jean Gimpel add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| first editions
10	The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization more books like this by Jonathan Lyons add to wishlist Lyons presents the remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy--and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West. see all copies from $11.95! new only from $11.95! \| SVS
11	Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade more books like this by Avner Greif add to wishlist It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how they come about, and why ... see all copies from $27.50! new only from $30.93! \| SVS
12 view cover	The mediaeval stage more books like this by E. K. Chambers add to wishlist All aspects of English theater to 16th-century: wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, the ludi of village feasts, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows and ultimately, a new class of professional players. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $11.60! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350 more books like this by Robert Sabatino Lopez add to wishlist Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of medieval European ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.01! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages more books like this by Patrick J Geary add to wishlist To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval ... see all copies from $14.53! new only from $20.37!
15 view cover	Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience more books like this by Professor Michael Prestwich add to wishlist While medieval military life is sometimes pictured in terms of knights in armour with splendid coats of arms, the reality more often consisted of men struggling against cold and damp and against elusive foes who refused to do battle. In this book, Michael Prestwich re-creates the experience of medieval warfare, examining how English medieval ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wheels of Commerce more books like this by Fernand Braudel add to wishlist In the second volume in this splendid trilogy Braudel turns his attention to the markets and exchanges that, from the start, have been the real motors of change. Peddlers, merchants, fairs, market stalls, the first stock exchanges, means of travel and communication, styles of life and social mores all brought sharply and imaginatively into focus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
17	Death and Life in the Tenth Century more books like this by Eleanor Shipley Duckett add to wishlist A vivid portrait of political and cultural life in the 10th century see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Medieval Warfare: A History more books like this by Maurice Keen (Editor) add to wishlist This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a ... see all copies from $6.18! new only from $28.45! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Medieval Art: Painting-Sculpture-Architecture, 4th-14th Century more books like this by James Snyder add to wishlist Published jointly by Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams Inc. Broad in scope, this volume discusses the arts of the church - architecture, sculpture, manuscript illumination, and sumptuary arts - in Italy, Byzantium, Germany, and France from the 4th to the 14th centuries - including Early Christian, Byzantine, Pre-Romanesque Hiberno-Saxon, ... see all copies from $9.95! first editions
20 view cover	Economic and social history of medieval Europe more books like this by Henri Pirenne add to wishlist A great Belgian historian recounts the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-fifteenth century. Translated by I. E. Clegg. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women more books like this by Professor Caroline Walker Bynum add to wishlist see all copies from $10.98! new only from $20.91! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture more books like this by Jean LeClercq add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $22.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Great Warbow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose more books like this by Matthew Strickland, Robert Hardy add to wishlist The Great Warbow is a vivid and exciting exploration of the bow and arrow as weapons of war. From before the Domesday Book, through Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Wales and Ireland, the crusades, Bannockburn and the Wars of the Roses, until the time of the Tudors, this book takes us on a wide-ranging and fascinating journey through history. Tactics ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $238.49!
24 view cover	The knight, the lady and the priest : the making of modern marriage in medieval France more books like this by Georges Duby add to wishlist This study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries. Through anecdotes and family dramas, the author aims to increase the understanding of the motives and conflicts of those who inhabited the distant past. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $16.37! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries more books like this by Mary G Houston add to wishlist Splendid pictorial documentation, carefully researched, of royal apparel, ecclesiastical dress and vestments, academic and legal garments, and civilian dress of all classes. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.22! \| first editions \| SVS

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