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Teutonic Knights
Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation
Häftad, 2024
225 kr
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This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and enduring legacy. Aleksander Pluskowski traces …
Richard the Lionheart
In Life and in Legend
Inbunden, 2025
198 kr
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How did Richard the Lionheart, who once said he would sell London if he found a buyer, become celebrated as the ideal of English chivalry? This book examines the life of Richard I (1157–1199) through the captivating stories told about him, from accounts of his deeds in medieval sources to his …
Christine de Pizan
Life, Work, Legacy
Inbunden, 2021
205 kr
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The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the booktrade, writing more than 40 works including poetry, historical and political treatises and defenses of women.In this new …
Margery Kempe
A Mixed Life
Av Anthony Bale
Inbunden, 2021
220 kr
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This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the …
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Av Irven M. Resnick, Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr
Inbunden, 2022
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220 kr
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As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural world led Pope Pius XII to declare Albertus the patron saint of the natural sciences. …
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme
Time and Medieval Life
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to ‘atoms’ or ‘droplets’ and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure time by natural phenomena such as …
Andrey Rublev
The Artist and His World
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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Born in the 1360s, Andrey Rublev was a Muscovite monk and icon painter who died between 1427 and 1430 in Moscow. He is acknowledged as the supreme medieval Russian painter of icons and frescos, yet much about him remains mysterious. To date there is no volume in English on him or his work.This book …
Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2023
214 kr
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This book is the first modern history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, it explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor McCall refutes the common misconception that Renaissance artists and …
Bede and the Theory of Everything
Inbunden, 2023
229 kr
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This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673–735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and ‘the father of English history’. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of the Ceolfrith Bibles and the Lindisfarne …
Geoffrey Chaucer
Unveiling the Merry Bard
Inbunden, 2024
198 kr
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This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent years the lively and often risqué style of his best-known work, The Canterbury Tales, has made his …
Art of Medieval Falconry
Inbunden, 2024
229 kr
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The art of falconry was one of the most fascinating aspects of medieval society. For medieval people falconry was not just about hunting, it encapsulated sovereignty, power and diplomacy. This book describes and assesses the visual culture of falconry, tracking how images, traditions and the birds …
Troubadours
Inbunden, 2024
203 kr
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Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for their brilliant, innovative use of words and …
Marco Polo and His World
Inbunden, 2024
203 kr
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Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. Their book …
Frederick Barbarossa
Av G. A. Loud
Inbunden, 2025
198 kr
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Frederick Barbarossa, also known as Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1155, was a dominant figure in late 12th-century European history. He is remembered as one of the greatest medieval German emperors; some even regard him as a German hero. He brought peace to Germany, fought to maintain …
Johannes Gutenberg
A Biography in Books
Inbunden, 2025
198 kr
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Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe’s first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fascinated a wide audience. Due to scant and vague fifteenth-century documentation, however, Gutenberg’s career has long been obscured by derivative storytelling, competing …
Thomas Becket and His World
Inbunden, 2025
198 kr
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This book explores the turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket, one of the most controversial figures of the Middle Ages. From a London merchant’s son to royal chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury, Becket’s murder in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 elevated him to England’s …
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Woman, Queen and Legend
Av Lindy Grant
Inbunden, 2025
217 kr
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II and mother to Richard the Lionheart and King John, her life was marked by power, influence and myth. This concise, …
Medieval Horse
Inbunden, 2025
192 kr
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This book explores the role of horses across the medieval world, from the Kievan Rus' and Scandinavia to Central Europe, Byzantium, the Arab world and Asia, including China and India. Covering the early medieval period to the late Middle Ages, it examines how horses shaped societies, warfare and …
Chinggis Khan in His World
Inbunden, 2027
209 kr
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Chinggis Khan in His World offers a fresh perspective on one of history’s most influential figures by placing the founder of the Mongol Empire within the social and political realities of the Eurasian steppe. Rather than focusing primarily on military conquest and legend, it reconstructs his life …
Francis of Assisi
His Life, Vision and Companions
Häftad, 2027
175 kr
Kommande
This is an original and historically informed account of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. The book explores how Francis – along with his earliest brothers – embraced a life of poverty, in solidarity with the lowest ranks of …
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Woman, Queen and Legend
Av Lindy Grant
Häftad, 2027
185 kr
Kommande
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II and mother to Richard the Lionheart and King John, her life was marked by power, influence and myth. This concise, …
Francis of Assisi
His Life, Vision and Companions
Inbunden, 2023
198 kr
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This is an original and historically informed account of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. The book explores how Francis – along with his earliest brothers – embraced a life of poverty, in solidarity with the lowest ranks of …
