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The Autumn of the Middle Agesby Johan Huizinga, Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich MammitzschISBN 0226359948 (0-226-35994-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autumn of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Peopleby Bede, Bertram Colgrave, R.A.B. Mynors, Veneabilis BedaISBN 0198221738 (0-19-822173-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People'Book summary:Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors's edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad and provided a survey of the extant manuscripts and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer's invaluable edition. This revised edition takes into account J.M. Wallace-Hadrill's Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1988), enabling the reader to use the two in conjunction. [via]
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The Black Deathby P. ZieglerISBN 0061315508 (0-06-131550-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Death'Book summary:'as exciting and readable an account as you could wish' -- The Guardian
The major study of the origins, progress and economic and social effects of the plague throughout Europe in the 14th century. [via]
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Agesby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 0060925817 (0-06-092581-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages'Book summary:Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show."
In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping." Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.
The medieval technological revolution, the authors conclude, came at a cost: much of Europe was deforested to make room for cropland and to fire kilns and furnaces, and mechanization made obsolete many handicraft skills. Yet, they add, the workers and inventors of the Middle Ages "all transformed the world, on balance very much to the world's advantage." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Chronicles of the Crusadesby G De VillehardouinISBN 0140441247 (0-14-044124-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of the Crusades'Book summary:Unread/unmarked paperback shelved for decades with minimal wear to cover ships same or next day. [via]
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Chronicles of the Crusadesby Joinville, Geoffroi De VillehardouinISBN 0880290358 (0-88029-035-8)
Hardcover, Dorset Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of the Crusades'Book summary:This book features the most authoritative accounts available of the Holy Wars: Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople and Joinville's Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Lewis. The veteran crusaders provide engrossing narratives and firsthand testimony of terrifying battles as well as the religious and political fervor that sparked the two hundred-year campaign.[via]More editions of Chronicles of the Crusades:
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilizationby Norman F. CantorISBN 0060925531 (0-06-092553-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization'Book summary:[This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
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In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work.
The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates newer research and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the late Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, women's roles in society, and popular religion and heresy distinguish the book. While the first and last sections of the book are almost entirely new and many additions have been incorporated in the intervening sections, Cantor has retained the powerful narrative flow that made earlier editions so accessible. [via]More editions of The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization:
- The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization: ISBN 0060170336 (0-06-017033-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization: ISBN 0060925531 (0-06-092553-1)
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Centuryby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0345349571 (0-345-34957-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century'Book summary:In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors. [via]
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- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345289307 (0-345-28930-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345295420 (0-345-29542-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345910907 (0-345-91090-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0394400267 (0-394-40026-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century: ISBN 0345349571 (0-345-34957-1)
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Centuryby Barbara Wertheim TuchmanISBN 0345283945 (0-345-28394-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century'Book summary:In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors. [via]
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nationby Bede the Venerable, John StevensISBN 0460004794 (0-460-00479-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'Book summary:The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, informing himself by commissioning others to copy documents in the Papal Regista and various episcopal and monastic archives. This new edition has been carefully revised by Gerrish Gray and is beautifully typeset in Bembo type. [via]
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Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 1723by BedeISBN 0766169448 (0-7661-6944-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation 1723'Book summary:This work presents the ecclesiastical history of the English nation from the coming of Julius Caesar into the island in the 60th year before the incarnation of Christ, until the year of our Lord 731, to which is prefixed a life of Bede. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English. [via]
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bedeby Bede, David Hugh FarmerISBN 014044565X (0-14-044565-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede'Book summary:Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede's Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede's denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer. [via]
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbertby Bede, Judith McClure, Roger CollinsISBN 0192838660 (0-19-283866-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbert'Book summary:Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famous work, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include all three texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbert: ISBN 0192838660 (0-19-283866-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/the Greater Chronicle Bede's Letter to Egbert: ISBN 0192829122 (0-19-282912-2)
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Lifeby Alison WeirISBN 0345434870 (0-345-43487-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life'Book summary:Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, eleanor of aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the middle ages. Despite the fact she lived in an age in which women were regarded as little more than chattel, eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written new biography, alison weir, author of five widely acclaimed chronicles of england's royal rulers, paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate life.born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of poitiers, eleanor came of age in a world of luxury, intrigue, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of europe--the prize duchy of aquitaine--yet her father had been shrewd enough to realize that her future security lay in a powerful marriage. Consequently the sensual duchess submitted to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding louis vii, the teenage king of france. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled--only to enter an even stormier match with the aggressively virile, hot-tempered henry of anjou, who would soon ascend to the english throne as henry ii.as weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in europe's twelfth-century courts, eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Eventually, after enduring henry's flagrant infidelities, she showed herself a formidable and dangerous enemy of the king's interests by plotting to overthrow him with their sons henry, richard, and geoffrey. [via]
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kingsby Amy KellyISBN 0674242505 (0-674-24250-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings'Book summary:Was there ever a ruler, man or woman, quite as fascinating as Eleanor of Aquitaine? The ruler of France's largest kingdom from the age of 15, Eleanor (1122- 1204) was renowned for beauty, intelligence, and the thoughtful application of power. Her marriage to her second husband, Henry Plantagenet of Normandy, brought her to the English throne; the birth of their sons John Lackland and Richard I Lionheart forever changed the face of medieval European history. Always at the center of her world, Eleanor remains a fascinating figure even today, and Amy Kelly captures the whirlwind of her life in this entrancing biography. [via]
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kingsby Amy Ruth KellyISBN 0674242548 (0-674-24254-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings'Book summary:Was there ever a ruler, man or woman, quite as fascinating as Eleanor of Aquitaine? The ruler of France's largest kingdom from the age of 15, Eleanor (1122- 1204) was renowned for beauty, intelligence, and the thoughtful application of power. Her marriage to her second husband, Henry Plantagenet of Normandy, brought her to the English throne; the birth of their sons John Lackland and Richard I Lionheart forever changed the face of medieval European history. Always at the center of her world, Eleanor remains a fascinating figure even today, and Amy Kelly captures the whirlwind of her life in this entrancing biography. [via]
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Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christianby Peter Abelard, Paul Vincent SpadeISBN 0872203220 (0-87220-322-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian'Book summary:Abelard's major ethical writings -- ethics, or 'know yourself', and dialogue between a philosopher, a jew and a christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index [via]
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The First Crusadeby Steven RuncimanISBN 0521611482 (0-521-61148-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Crusade'Book summary:Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they remain one of the most exciting and colourful adventure stories in history. An army of mounted warriors, travelling with peasants, merchants and artisans, faced a journey over hostile terrain, meeting with unforeseen antagonism, desert heat, and the constant struggle to feed and water their troops and horses. Remittance from penance, a desire to see the Holy Places, or greed for the power and booty to be captured in the East spurred the crusaders on towards the prize, be it spiritual or temporal, of the Holy City of Jerusalem. Their journey's spectacular culmination was the long siege of Jerusalem, at the end of which the Crusaders, by a brilliant tactical manoeuvre, broke down its defences and poured into the city which erupted in a bloody massacre. Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades is justly acclaimed as the most complete and fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Lands from the infidel. [via]
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, Paul VeyneISBN 0674399757 (0-674-39975-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval Worldby Georges Duby, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400011 (0-674-40001-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World'Book summary:All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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History of the Crusadesby Steven RuncimanISBN 052134770X (0-521-34770-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Crusades: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem'Book summary:Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is being reissued. This volume deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. As Runciman says in his preface: 'Whether we regard the Crusades as the most tremendous and most romantic of Christian adventures, or as the last of the barbarian invasions, they form a central fact in medieval history. Before their inception the centre of our civilization was placed in Byzantium and in the lands of the Arab caliphate. Before they faded out the hegemony in civilization had passed to western Europe. Out of this transference modern history was born.' [via]
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A History of the English Church and Peopleby Beda VemerabilisISBN 0140440429 (0-14-044042-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the English Church and People'Book summary:Spine Taped. Corner of Front Cover Cut off. Binding Broken, Some Pages Loose. Edges of Pages Damaged by Small Tears..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in fair condition, suitable as a reading copy, ,341pages. [via]
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History of the English Church and Peopleby BedeISBN 0760765510 (0-7607-6551-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the English Church and People'Book summary:Christianity History [via]
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europeby Thomas CahillISBN 0385418493 (0-385-41849-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe'Book summary:In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture. [via]
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Madeby Norman CantorISBN 0060014342 (0-06-001434-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made'Book summary:One-third of Western Europe's population died between 1348 and 1350, victims of the Black Death. Noted medievalist Norman Cantor tells the story of the pandemic and its widespread effects in In the Wake of the Plague.
After giving an overview, Cantor describes various theories about the medical crisis, from contemporary fears of a Jewish conspiracy to poison the water (and the resulting atrocities against European Jews) to a growing belief among modern historians that both bubonic plague and anthrax caused the spiraling death rates. Cantor also details ways in which the Black Death changed history, at both the personal level (family lines dying out) and the political (the Plantagenet kings may well have been able to hold onto France had their resources not been so diminished).
Cantor veers from topic to topic, from dynastic worries to the Dance of Death, and from peasants' rights to Perpendicular Gothic. This makes for amusing reading, though those seeking an orderly narrative may be frustrated. He also seems overly concerned with rumors of homosexual behavior, and his attempt to link the savage method of Edward II's murder to a cooling in global weather is a bit farfetched.
Cantor wears his considerable scholarship lightly, but includes a very useful critical biography for further reading. While not an entry-level text on the Black Death, In the Wake of the Plague will interest readers looking for a broader interpretation of its consequences. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Centuryby Norman F. CantorISBN 0688123023 (0-688-12302-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that invention.
Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the events of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personalities and creative minds that brought new insights about the past.
A revolution in academic method, this book is a breakthrough to a new way of teaching the humanities and historiography, to be enjoyed by student and general public alike. It takes an immense body of learning and transmits it so that readers come away fully informed of the essentials of the subject, perceiving the interconnection of medieval civilization with the culture of the twentieth century and having had a good time while doing it! This is a riveting, entertaining, humorous, and learned read, compulsory for anyone concerned about the past and future of Western civilization.
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- Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0688094066 (0-688-09406-6)
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Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Michael Clanchy, Betty Radice, Peter Abelard, HeloiseISBN 0140448993 (0-14-044899-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Pierre AbailardISBN 0140442979 (0-14-044297-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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Life in a Medieval Castleby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 069000561X (0-690-00561-X)
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Life in a Medieval Castleby Joseph GiesISBN 006090674X (0-06-090674-X)
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0060908807 (0-06-090880-7)
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Life in a Medieval Villageby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 0060920467 (0-06-092046-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in a Medieval Village'Book summary:A lively, detailed picture of village life in the Middle Ages by the authors of Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle. "A good general introduction to the history of this period."--Los Angeles Times [via]
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Life of Charlemagneby EinhardISBN 1425026591 (1-4250-2659-1)
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The Making of the Middle Agesby R.W. SouthernISBN 1597401323 (1-59740-132-3)
Hardcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of the Middle Ages'Book summary:Yale University Press 1976. History text; notees, bibliography, index, 280 pages. [via]
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Medieval Europe: A Short Historyby C. Warren HollisterISBN 0070297290 (0-07-029729-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Medieval Peopleby Eileen PowerISBN 1428013458 (1-4280-1345-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval People'Book summary:Medieval People is an account of the lives of six individuals who lived during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Cantervury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other in Essex clothier. The author has illustrated various aspects of social life of the era by drawing on such sources as account books, diaries, letters, records, and wills. A previously unpublished essay by Eileen Power has been added to the present edition. Entitled "The Precursors," it describes the barbarian conquest of Rome. [via]
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The Medieval Readerby Norman F. CantorISBN 0062720554 (0-06-272055-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medieval Reader'Book summary:The Middle Ages comes to life in this fascinating history of the period told through the letters, essays, poems, and ballads of those who lived it. [via]
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Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350by Friedrich HeerISBN 1566491975 (1-56649-197-5)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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Middle Agesby Morris BishopISBN 0828104875 (0-8281-0487-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Ages'Book summary:An historical summary of the middle ages. [via]
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Montaillouby LadurieISBN 0859674037 (0-85967-403-7)
Hardcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou'Book summary:This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters. [via]
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Errorby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0394729641 (0-394-72964-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error'Book summary:"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt...Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordinary people of the past."Times Literary Supplement.
With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France, almost destroyed by internal feuds and religious heterodoxy. Ladurie's portrait is based on a detailed register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and future Pope Benedict XII, who conducted rigorous inquisition into heresy within his diocese. Fournier was a consummate inquisitor, an acute psychologist who was able to elicit from the accused the innermost secrets of their thoughts and actions. He was pitiless in the pursuit of error, and meticulous in recording that pursuit.
LeRoy Ladurie analyzes the behavior, demography, social mentality, and cosmology of the community of peasants and shepherds, and vividly evokes the daily life of the village and mountain pastures. His portrait of Montaillou is dominated by the personal histories of two men: the curé Pierre Clergue, a brutal and powerful man who placed his enemies in the hands of the inquisitor; and the shepherd Pierre Maury, a friend of the Albigensian perfecti and a fatalist who returned from Spain to disappear in the inquisitor's prison in his own country. Montaillou, which has received even more praise than LeRoy Ladurie's earlier work, provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark, intriguing history. [via]More editions of Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error:
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Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324by Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 2070323285 (2-07-032328-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324'Book summary:Sorte de Maigret obsessif et compulsif, Jacques Fournier, évêque de Pamiers et bientôt pape sous le nom de Benoît XII, officie à la tête d'un tribunal poursuivant les hérétiques cathares de son diocèse. À Montaillou, village d'Ariège, vingt-cinq accusés sont interrogés : le tout est consigné par le scribe consciencieux dans les folios du registre d'Inquisition.
Voilà la matière première exceptionnelle qui a nourri Montaillou, village occitan, une monographie dans laquelle Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie raconte le quotidien d'un village au début du XIVe siècle : la vie banale des montagnards comme le gentil pâtre Pierre Maury, une sociabilité villageoise prise aux jeux de l'amour et de l'adultère autour du curé, infatigable coureur de jupons Pierre Clergue, une culture et des croyances populaires profondément ancrées et parfois déviantes.
Avec cet ouvrage majeur, Le Roy Ladurie ramène le lecteur près de sept siècles en arrière, à la rencontre d'un village, de ses habitants et de ses secrets. --Loïs Klein [via]
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The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval Historyby Colin McEvedyISBN 0140512497 (0-14-051249-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History'Book summary:The period from the reign of Constantine to the great voyages of discoveryor from the fourth to the fifteenth centurywas once seen merely as the long, slow decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Yet, for Europeans, it is also a "supreme story of defeat turned into victory."[via]Colin McEvedy's pioneering atlas, revised and expanded for this new edition, treats as one unit the Mediterranean, Europe and the nomads' steppeland to the East (the habitat of Huns, Turks and Mongols). Illuminating maps and lively commentaries present the towns and trade routes, the changing population patterns, the boundaries of Christendom (and later Islam) and the ever-shifting political units. The result is a wonderfully eloquent picture, as Dr. McEvedy puts it, "of how old empires fell and new ones rose, and how, in Europe, a new society emerged which had the energy to break free from the geographical, intellectual and technical limitations that defined the medieval world."
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The Oxford History of Medieval Europeby George HolmesISBN 0192801333 (0-19-280133-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of Medieval Europe'Book summary:Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now available in a compact, more convenient format, it offers the same text and many of the illustrations which first appeared in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, the book explores a period of profound diversity and change, focusing on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War. The Oxford History of the Medieval World also examines such intriguing cultural subjects as the chivalric code of knights, popular festivals, and the proliferation of new art forms, and the catastrophic social effect of the Black Death. Authoritative and eminently readable, this book will entertain as much as it will educate. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europeby George HolmesISBN 0192854356 (0-19-285435-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe'Book summary:Covering a thousand years of history, this richly illustrated volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, it offers the most authoritative account of life in medieval Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the coming of the Renaissance.
Exploring a period of profound diversity and change, the contributors focus on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War; from the expression of religion in the great monasteries and cathedrals to the mixed ambitions of the Crusades; and from the cultural worlds of chivalric knights, popular festivals, and new art forms to the social catastrophe of the Black Death. Depicting both the strange and the familiar, they reveal that the vast upheavals of migration and new institutions of the Dark Ages between 400 and 900 far surpass anything we have endured today. Consequently, the new attitudes and ways of life that developed from 900 to 1500 remain central in modern societies. Our towns and villages, the nation state and democratic forms of government, our commerce and banking, our system of education, our literature, and our concern with the relationship between the physical and the spiritual--these all had their origins in the medieval world.
Divided between the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, the six chapters in this book demonstrate the movement of the center of gravity in European life from the Mediterranean to the north. Lavishly illustrated with over two hundred illustrations, including twenty-four in color, the volume also contains comprehensive reference material in maps, genealogies, a chronology, lists of further reading, and a full index. [via]More editions of The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe:
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Two Lives of Charlemagneby Einhard, and Nofker Stammerer Einhard, Balbulus Notker, Lewis G. M. ThorpeISBN 0140442138 (0-14-044213-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Lives of Charlemagne'Book summary:This is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas day 800. By contracts, Notker's account, written some decades after Charlemagne's death, is a collection of anecdotes rather than a presentation of historical facts. [via]
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Vita Karoli Magni: The Life of Charlemagneby Einhard, Edwin H. Zeydel, Evelyn Scherabon FirchowISBN 0870242121 (0-87024-212-1)
Hardcover, University of Miami Press
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The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0486404439 (0-486-40443-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuriesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0385092881 (0-385-09288-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuries'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Ageby William ManchesterISBN 0316545562 (0-316-54556-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age'Book summary:It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts and religious reform that they never quite got around to realizing the possibilities of contemporary innovations in public health, civil engineering, and other peaceful pursuits. Instead, they waged war in faraway lands, created and lost fortunes, and squandered millions of lives. For all the wastefulness of medieval societies, however, Manchester notes, the era created the foundation for the extraordinary creative explosion of the Renaissance. Drawing on a cast of characters numbering in the hundreds, Manchester does a solid job of reconstructing the medieval world, although some scholars may disagree with his interpretations. [via]
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Herfsttij Der Middeleeuwen: Studie over Levens- En Gedachtenvormen Der Veertiende En Vijftiende Eeuw in Frankrijk En De Nederlandenby Johan HuizingaISBN 9001409075 (90-01-40907-5)
Hardcover, H. D. Tjeenk Willink
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Lettres Des Deux Amants: Attribuees a Heloise Et Abelardby Ewald Konsgen, Heloise, Peter Abelard, Sylvain PironISBN 207077371X (2-07-077371-X)
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