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Anna of Byzantiumby Tracy BarrettISBN 0440415365 (0-440-41536-5)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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The Apothecary Roseby Candace M. RobbISBN 0312953607 (0-312-95360-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin MahdiISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Readers for more than three centuries have delighted in The Arabian Nights--a world wherein magic is woven into the fabric of everyday life; a touching, exhilarating mixture of flamboyance, pathos, beauty, and humor. This first serious English translation fully exploits the Middle-Eastern storyteller's art and the variety of levels at which the stories move. [via]
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Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393959066 (0-393-95906-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393027074 (0-393-02707-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Arabian Nights: ISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Arabian Nightsby Earle GoodenowISBN 044806006X (0-448-06006-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:A selection of thirteen tales told by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights which enchanted the cruel sultan so much that he gave up executing his daily wives.[via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
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Arabian Nightsby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
The Arabian Nightsby Rene BullISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0375756752 (0-375-75675-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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Art of Courtly Loveby Andreas CapellanusISBN 0393098486 (0-393-09848-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art of Courtly Love'Book summary:After becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and literature of most of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged edition of codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into 'one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization.' This translation of a work that may be viewed as didactic, mocking, or merely descriptive, preserves the attitudes and practices that were the foundation of a long and significant tradition in English literature.
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Atlas of Medieval Europeby Angus MacKay, David DitchburnISBN 0415122317 (0-415-12231-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more than twelve centuries.MASS MARKET PAPER [via]
The Boy's King Arthurby Thomas Malory, N. C. WyethISBN 0486448002 (0-486-44800-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Brother Cadfael's Penanceby Ellis PetersISBN 0446404535 (0-446-40453-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Cathedral Buildersby Jean GimpelISBN 039452893X (0-394-52893-X)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Clerkenwell Talesby Peter AckroydISBN 0385511213 (0-385-51121-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reasonby Charles FreemanISBN 0434008532 (0-434-00853-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Cloud of Unknowingby Halcyon BackhouseISBN 0340368683 (0-340-36868-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselingby William Johnston, Huston SmithISBN 0385030975 (0-385-03097-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling'Book summary:"God can be loved but he cannot be thought. He can be grasped by love but never by concepts. So less thinking and more loving."
This is William Johnston's summary of the message of The Cloud of Unknowing. Nobody knows who wrote the book, or exactly where he lived, or whether he was a member of a religious order, or even, really, whether he was part of any church at all. The text first appeared in Middle English in the 14th century, and it has inspired generations of mystical searchers (from St. John of the Cross to Teilhard de Chardin). The mysterious conditions of its composition, however, focus the reader's attention squarely on the book's message--an almost Zen rendering of Christianity, which has a great deal to teach our querulous, doctrine-obsessed churches: "And so I urge you," the author writes, "go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Cloud of Unknowing: The Classic of Medieval Mysticismby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 0486432033 (0-486-43203-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Confession of Brother Haluinby Ellis PetersISBN 0445408553 (0-445-40855-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante Alighieri, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520045173 (0-520-04517-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbathby Carlo GinzburgISBN 0394581636 (0-394-58163-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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An Excellent Mysteryby Ellis PetersISBN 0446405329 (0-446-40532-9)
Softcover, Hachette Book Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Excellent Mystery'Book summary:Ellis Peters is the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. 1992 is the 15th anniversary of the first Brother Cadfael book, "A Morbid Taste for Murder". Other books by the author include "The Summer of the Danes" and "The Cadfael Companion". [via]
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."[via]More editions of Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments:
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Feudal Society: The Growth and Ties of Dependenceby Marc BlochISBN 0415039169 (0-415-03916-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feudal Society: The Growth and Ties of Dependence'Book summary:Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable. [via]
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Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism: An Inquiry into the Analogy of the Arts, Philosophy, and Religion in the Middle Agesby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0452009952 (0-452-00995-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Heretic's Apprenticeby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400009 (0-446-40000-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heretic's Apprentice'Book summary:Edgar Award-winner from the Mystery Writers of America and Silver Dagger Award-winer from the British Crime Writers Association, Ellis Peters presents the 16th chronicle of the bestselling medieval mystery series featuring Brother Cadfael. Ellis Peters' books are #1 bestsellers in England, and the Brother Cadfael mysteries have sold over a million copies there. [via]
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Historians in the Middle Agesby Beryl SmalleyISBN 0500250391 (0-500-25039-1)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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A History of the Church in the Middle Agesby F. Donald LoganISBN 0415132894 (0-415-13289-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of the Franksby Gregory-Bishop of ToursISBN 0393098451 (0-393-09845-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Holy Thiefby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403636 (0-446-40363-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Illuminatorby Brenda Rickman VantreaseISBN 0312331924 (0-312-33192-4)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminator'Book summary:It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop can seal nearly anyone's fate. The printing press has yet to be invented. Books, written only in Latin or Norman French, are rare and costly, painstakingly lettered and illuminated with exquisite paintings---far beyond the reach of ordinary people.[via]
But there are cracks in the old feudal order---and in the absolute power of the Church. Finn is a master illuminator who works not only for the Church but also, in secret, for the heretical Oxford cleric John Wycliffe. Under the nose of the powerful Abbot of Broomholm, Finn illuminates pages for Wycliffe---an English translation of the Bible, meant to bring the word of God to the masses. And Finn has another secret, one that will lead both himself and his beloved daughter into ever-increasing peril.
Lady Kathryn, the mistress of Blackingham Manor, is a widow who finds herself caught between the King's taxes and the Church's tithes. To protect her sons' inheritance, she strikes a bargain with the abbot---Kathryn will take in the illuminator and his daughter, and gain the monastery's protection. What begins as a hesitant friendship between Finn and Lady Kathryn grows into a passionate alliance that touches off a chain of betrayals, tragedies, and unexpected acts of heroism.
Richly detailed and irresistibly compelling, The Illuminator is a glorious novel of love, art, religion, and treachery at an extraordinary turning point in history. 
Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0394752910 (0-394-75291-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin-beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate-stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 1, The Bridal Wreath , describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson, a young man perhaps overly fond of women, of whom her father strongly disapproves. [via]
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The Leper of Saint Gilesby Ellis PetersISBN 0446404373 (0-446-40437-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leper of Saint Giles'Book summary:A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael's abbey, leaving the monk with a terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing is hidden among the inhabitants of the Saint Giles leper colony, and Brother Cadfael must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted mind. [via]
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850by Brian M. FaganISBN 0465022723 (0-465-02272-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850'Book summary:"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". And Fagan's story of the last thousand years, centered on the "Little Ice Age," reminds us of what we could end up repeating: flood, fire, and famine--acts of God exacerbated by acts of man.
For all that he takes a broad--a very broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Mabinogionby Gwyn Jones, Thomas JonesISBN 0460872974 (0-460-87297-4)
Softcover, Everyman
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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The Mabinogionby Charlotte Schreiber, Charlotte E. GuestISBN 0486295419 (0-486-29541-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Collection of 12 medieval Welsh stories considered a masterpiece of European literature. Includes Kilhwch and Olwen, one of the earliest Arthurian tales in Welsh; The Dream of Rhonabwy; 3 Arthurian romances: The Lady of the Fountain, Peredur the Son of Evrawc and Geraint the Son of Erbin, and more.[via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
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Mabinogionby J. Thomas, Gwyn JonesISBN 0460042289 (0-460-04228-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends--King Arthur himself is a character--they summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993. [via] 
Medieval Englandby PlattISBN 0415129133 (0-415-12913-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to A.D. 1600by Colin PlattISBN 0415119154 (0-415-11915-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopediaby H.R. LoynsISBN 0500276455 (0-500-27645-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Middle Ages, 395-1500by Joseph Reese Strayer, Dana Carleton MunroISBN 0390853151 (0-390-85315-1)
Hardcover, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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Monk's Hoodby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403008 (0-446-40300-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Mont-Saint Michel and Chartresby AdamsISBN 0399124985 (0-399-12498-5)
Hardcover, Putnam
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spainby Maria Rosa MenocalISBN 0316168718 (0-316-16871-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain'Book summary:María Rosa Menocal's wafting, ineffably sad The Ornament of the World tells of a time and place--from 786 to 1492, in Andalucía, Spain--that is largely and unjustly overshadowed in most historical chronicles. It was a time when three cultures--Judaic, Islamic, and Christian--forged a relatively stable (though occasionally contentious) coexistence. Such was this period that there remains in Toledo a church with an "homage to Arabic writing on its walls [and] a sumptuous 14th-century synagogue built to look like Granada's Alhambra." Long gone, however, is the Córdoba library--a thousand times larger than any other in Christian Europe. Menocal's history is one of palatine cities, of philosophers, of poets whose work inspired Chaucer and Boccaccio, of weeping fountains, breezy courtyards, and a long-running tolerance "profoundly rooted in the cultivation of the complexities, charms and challenges of contradictions," which ended with the repression of Judaism and Islam the same year Columbus sailed to the New World. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, John FrecceroISBN 0451627008 (0-451-62700-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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The Physicianby Noah GordonISBN 0449214265 (0-449-21426-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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In the eleventh-century London, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling,juggling, peddling cures to the sick--and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing--a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.... [via]More editions of The Physician:
Pilgrim of Hateby Ellis PetersISBN 0446405310 (0-446-40531-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Princes in the Towerby Alison WeirISBN 0345391780 (0-345-39178-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princes in the Tower'Book summary:"Comprehensive and insightful, THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER offers a unique perspective on a profound mystery." Faye KellermanDespite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder to arrive at a conclusion Sherlock Holmes himself could not dispute. [via]
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval Englandby Alison WeirISBN 0345453204 (0-345-45320-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England'Book summary:Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to Englands throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabellas political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, the She-Wolf of France.
Now the acclaimed author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir, reexamines the life of Isabella of England, historys other notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward IIs mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and ruling in his stead as co-regents for Isabellas young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover.
Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabellas story. She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward IIs brutal murder in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder even took place.
Isabellas reputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison Weir gives a startling, groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella, in this first full biography in more than 150 years. In a work of extraordinary original research, Weir effectively strips away centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and reveals a truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in which she lived and the history of western Europe.
Engaging, vibrant, alive with breathtaking detail and unforgettable characters, Queen Isabella is biographical history at its finest. [via]More editions of Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England:
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Quest for a Maidby Frances Mary HendryISBN 0374461554 (0-374-46155-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quest for a Maid'Book summary:Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir. [via]
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandevilleby Giles MiltonISBN 0374249970 (0-374-24997-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville'Book summary:Sir John Mandeville, a medieval English knight, was either one of history's greatest explorers or one of its greatest liars, depending on how one reads the pages of his Travels. Christopher Columbus took his words as a veritable guidebook, using it, Giles Milton writes, to convince the Spanish crown to fund his American voyages. The Victorians were not so kind, dismissing the wanderer--who, after all, wrote that in the Indian Ocean "there is a race of great stature, like giants ... they have one eye only, in the middle of their foreheads"--as an uncritical fabulist at best, a charlatan at worst.
Giles Milton, a student of exploration history, gives us reasons aplenty to question Mandeville's accuracy at points, but he is inclined to think that the knight actually did see at least some of the things he reported in his enormously influential book. Tracing Mandeville's trail to the Middle East and beyond, he considers the historical realities that underlie Mandeville's tales, from the gems that lie strewn among the reeds of Indonesia (which Milton guesses might be crystal-like secretions from bamboo plants) to the fabulous Christian kingdom of Prester John somewhere far out on the plains of Mongolia (where, Milton reminds us, Nestorian Christians were once common). His conclusion, well argued in the course of this witty and delightful book, is that although Mandeville is not always taken literally, he really did go crusading off in distant lands, and he certainly deserves to be rediscovered today, not least for what his work tells us about the medieval mind.
Readers new to Mandeville will find this a spirited introduction, and those already fond of The Travels will enjoy following Milton's parallel voyages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Travellerby Giles MiltonISBN 031242129X (0-312-42129-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller'Book summary:Sir John Mandeville, a medieval English knight, was either one of history's greatest explorers or one of its greatest liars, depending on how one reads the pages of his Travels. Christopher Columbus took his words as a veritable guidebook, using it, Giles Milton writes, to convince the Spanish crown to fund his American voyages. The Victorians were not so kind, dismissing the wanderer--who, after all, wrote that in the Indian Ocean "there is a race of great stature, like giants ... they have one eye only, in the middle of their foreheads"--as an uncritical fabulist at best, a charlatan at worst.
Giles Milton, a student of exploration history, gives us reasons aplenty to question Mandeville's accuracy at points, but he is inclined to think that the knight actually did see at least some of the things he reported in his enormously influential book. Tracing Mandeville's trail to the Middle East and beyond, he considers the historical realities that underlie Mandeville's tales, from the gems that lie strewn among the reeds of Indonesia (which Milton guesses might be crystal-like secretions from bamboo plants) to the fabulous Christian kingdom of Prester John somewhere far out on the plains of Mongolia (where, Milton reminds us, Nestorian Christians were once common). His conclusion, well argued in the course of this witty and delightful book, is that although Mandeville is not always taken literally, he really did go crusading off in distant lands, and he certainly deserves to be rediscovered today, not least for what his work tells us about the medieval mind.
Readers new to Mandeville will find this a spirited introduction, and those already fond of The Travels will enjoy following Milton's parallel voyages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0333310500 (0-333-31050-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Peter's Fair'Book summary:At the annual fair of Saint Peter, an unseem ly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the mon ks, as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provide s. Afterwards a merchant is found dead and Brother Cadfael i s called upon to investigate. ' [via]
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The Seeing Stoneby Kevin Crossley-HollandISBN 0439263271 (0-439-26327-1)
Softcover, Arthur a Levine
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St. Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403016 (0-446-40301-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Peter's Fair'Book summary:When a merchant bound for St. Peter's Fair is found with a slender dagger piercing his heart, Brother Cadfael is on the case. Two murders later, he realizes that no one--least of all the merchant's lovely niece--is safe. "Colorful, convincing details on the workings of a medieval fair".--Kirkus Reviews. [via]
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knightsby Howard Pyle, Plummer, John F. (AFT)ISBN 0451530241 (0-451-53024-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of King Arthur and His Knights'Book summary:[via]In this enchanting version, the renowned American illustrator and storyteller Howard Pyle displays his unique talent for capturing and stimulating the imaginations of the young. Inventively retold and vividly illustrated, these stories describe the perilous and thrilling adventures of King Arthur and his knights in that glorious age of chivalry and honor. 41 illustrations.More editions of The Story of King Arthur and His Knights:
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Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Story of King Arthur and His Knights: ISBN 0448054728 (0-448-05472-8)
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The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possibleby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081145 (0-520-08114-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible'Book summary:By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.[via]More editions of The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible:
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The Tale Of Genjiby Murasaki ShikubuISBN 0394735307 (0-394-73530-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tale of Genji'Book summary:One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-century romance centers on the lives and loves of an emperor's son. It offers a vast tapestry of the intrigues and rivalries of court life, as well as an exquisitely detailed portrayal of a decaying aristocracy. [via]
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Tale of Genji-Oneby L. MurasakiISBN 038509275X (0-385-09275-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tale of Genji-One'Book summary:brilliant account of courtly life in medieval Japan, [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Nightby David Shumaker, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 0517261847 (0-517-26184-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night'Book summary:This retelling of the magnificent tales told by Scheherazade to the King of India in order to save her life includes such magical classics as ""Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,"" ""Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp,"" and many other favorites. [via]
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Time and Chanceby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0345396723 (0-345-39672-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Chance'Book summary:The Sunne in Splendour confirmed Sharon Kay Penman's place in the upper echelons of historical fiction, combining a breathtaking panoply of the past with an acute psychological observation of her characters. Time and Chance is the second part of her planned trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, beginning in the glory years of their reign. Penman conjures for us an astonishing era in which Henry battles with the Welsh and the French king, appoints Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, and, by taking a mistress, makes a bitter enemy of his wife.
Readers know the scalpel-like precision of Penman's character building from her earlier work, and the emotional lives of Henry and the troubled Eleanor are powerfully realized. As in the first book of the sequence, When Christ and His Saints Slept, conflict is ever the driving force. Henry and Eleanor's remarkable partnership was proving highly fecund, both politically, and physically, as Eleanor gave birth to five sons and three daughters, laying to rest her reputation as a barren queen and founding a dynasty that was to last three centuries. But auguries of trouble ahead were apparent: war with the Welsh; acrimonious battles with Eleanor's first husband, King Louis VII of France. But the truly destabilizing factor was Henry's decision to appoint his friend and confidant Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry had assumed that the worldly, ambitious Becket would be the perfect ally, and was devastated when the new archbishop cast off his own worldly past as he embraced his role as Defender of the Faith, swapping dissolution for piety.
As Penman vividly demonstrates, Henry saw Becket's action as a humiliating betrayal. One of the most famous murders in history followed, with further conflict in the kingdom caused by Henry's liaison with the daughter of a baron. In bedding Rosamund Clifford, Henry put his marriage and even his kingship at risk. As always, Penman handles her research lightly; the personal drama is the engine of her narrative, with each fresh scandal and intrigue delivered with a beguiling combination of relish and restraint. She is assured in her detailing of the political and ecclesiastical clashes of the court, but it is Henry II who strides her novel like a colossus--just as he did the kingdom he ruled. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk [via]
The White Companyby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486437639 (0-486-43763-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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