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Roger Crowley
1453

When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. Crowley gives a complete and compelling account of the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam an…

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Jeremy Phillip Brown
A World of Piety

"A World of Piety offers an historical-critical inquiry into the practical aims of Castilian kabbalah, including the Book of the Zohar, revealing the overlooked pietistic and revivalist aims of these…

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Dimiter Angelov
Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Victoria Botana de Beauvau-Craon,
Château de Haroué

A dazzling tour of Château de Haroué, the epitome of opulent French style and one of today's must-see examples of vibrant eighteenth-century architecture and design.Located in a remote village in the Lorr…

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Peter Weigel
Reading Aquinas's Five Ways

A clear and accessible reading of Aquinas's famous five arguments for God's existence. Provides the necessary background to understand the arguments, drawing on an array of historical and contemporary sou…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Deborah Parker
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Greene was …

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Medieval Philosophical Writings on the Powers of the Soul

"This volume presents a rich selection of key medieval Aristotelian texts debating the relation between the soul and its powers, most of them previously untranslated. An introduction situates the deb…

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Richard Rastall
Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of l…

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Henryk Szlajfer
Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the w…

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A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment

This volume covers a period when Europeans were making great advances in the production and application of pure knowledge, especially in the fields of navigation and discovery. Thus European powers gained…

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz to the mysterious island of Caldihe, Anthony Bale brings history alive, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world.'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Mid…

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Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament

De Gruyter Reference

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and techniques used to decorate medieval books, their different spaces and textures, their senso…

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Arthur Westwell
The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand

The monastery of Saint-Amand made, in the late ninth century, a series of deluxe manuscripts for celebration of Mass (sacramentaries). Such a corpus is unique so early. This book shows how the monks conti…

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Steven Nadler
Why Read Maimonides Today?

Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval period, but also one of history's greatest philosophers. As the autho…

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Steven Nadler
Why Read Maimonides Today?

Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval period, but also one of history's greatest philosophers. As the autho…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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A Cultural History of the Sea in the Early Modern Age

For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into new waters, wh…

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James J O'Donnell
The Ruin of the Roman Empire

The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Medi-terranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth …

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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

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