• Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)

    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair” in August and the “Cold Fair” in December. Europea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B003JBHV04
    • ASIN: B003JBHV04
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe (Medieval Cultures)

    Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

    • ASIN: 0816623600
    • ASIN: 0816623600
    • ISBN: 0816623600
    • Brand: Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
    • Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press

  • The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe

    A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351.A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0029123704
    • UPC: 000029123704
    • ASIN: 0029123704
    • ISBN: 9780029123706
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

  • The Hidden Tradition in Europe: The Secret History of Medieval Christian Heresy (Arkana)

    Christianity has always defined itself through fierce opposition to powerful 'heresies'; yet it is only recently that we have begun to retrieve these remarkable, underground traditions, buried beneath the contempt of the Church.Of these 'heresies' the greatest challenge to the medieval Church was posed by the 'Great Heresy' of the Cathars, who saw themselves as inheritors of a true and long-concealed Christian tradition, but who were also heirs to the age-long teachings of Dualism - the doctrine that cosmos and man are constant battlegrounds between the two principal and irreconcilably opposed... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140193197
    • ASIN: 0140193197
    • ISBN: 0140193197
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany

    Walk in the footsteps of the Medici, sip aperitivi, and discover the cultural heart of Italy: with Rick Steves on your side, Florence and Tuscany can be yours!Inside Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany you'll find:Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Florence and TuscanyRick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favoritesTop sights and hidden gems, from the Uffizi Gallery and the Duomo to a 600-year-old perfumeryHow to connect with local culture: Let a street musician serenade you on the Ponte Vecchio, stroll thro... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1631216651
    • ASIN: 1631216651
    • ISBN: 1631216651
    • Manufacturer: Rick Steves

  • Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (The Middle Ages Series)

    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives of contemplation and prayer and earned their livings as laborers or teachers.In Cities of Ladies, the first history of the beguines to appear in English in fifty years, Walter Simons traces the transformation of informal clusters of single women to large beguinages. These veritable single-sex cities offered lower- and middle-class women an alternative t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812218531
    • ASIN: 0812218531
    • ISBN: 0812218531
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

  • When the Moors Ruled in Europe


    • ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS
    • ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS

  • Adam of the Road (Puffin Modern Classics)

    Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly finds himself alone. He searches the same roads he traveled with his father, meeting various people along the way. But will Adam ever find his father and dog and end his desperate search?

    • ASIN: 0142406597
    • ASIN: 0142406597
    • ISBN: 0142406597
    • Brand: Puffin
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

  • Iliad (Hackett Classics)

    "Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic." —Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review

    • ASIN: 0872203522
    • ASIN: 0872203522
    • ISBN: 0872203522
    • Brand: Brand: Hackett Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing

  • African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

    A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa an... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0691177422
    • ASIN: 0691177422
    • ISBN: 0691177422
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

  • The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

    A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 039305974X
    • UPC: 783324827682
    • ASIN: 039305974X
    • ISBN: 039305974X
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

    Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.

    • ASIN: 0679751645
    • ASIN: 0679751645
    • ISBN: 9780679751649
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times

    Well before modern times, Asian, African, and European peoples were regularly interacting and intermingling with each other. Their encounters rank among the most effective agents of change in all of world history, fostering the spread of technologies, ideas, beliefs, values and religions. This innovative study examines processes of cross-cultural encounter before 1492. It concentrates on several eras, from the age of the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, through the Mongol Empire, up until the early transoceanic ventures of Europeans during the fifteenth century. Taki... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195076400
    • ASIN: 0195076400
    • ISBN: 0195076400
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

    By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of d... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375724516
    • ASIN: 0375724516
    • ISBN: 0375724516
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

    Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished. of photos. 3 maps.

    • ASIN: 0316168718
    • ASIN: 0316168718
    • ISBN: 0316168718
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Life in a Medieval City

    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect

    • UPC: 46769843
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Two Cities : Medieval Europe 1050-1320

    9780415174152

    • UPC: 2498871
    • Rating: 3.0

  • A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor : The Treasury of the City of Ladies

    9780892551354

    • UPC: 30036566
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Medieval Cities : Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition

    Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of

    • UPC: 31891832
    • Rating: 3.0

  • National geographic walking prague : the best of the city: 9781426214707

    See the best of Prague with this streamlined walking guide, complete with 12 step-by-step itineraries and maps, to help you explore the city like a pro and navigate like a local. Created in a handy,

    • UPC: 42335032

  • National Geographic Walking Paris, 2nd Edition : The Best of the City

    See the delights of Paris with 15 carefully curated itineraries, written by an expert travel writer, that showcase the city's best sights. Fun features include in-depth looks at major icons, "best of" lists of quintessential

    • UPC: 47479864

  • Best European Cities You Must See - eBook

    Europe: the name is quite enough to describe the beauty of nature lying within the continent. Europe holds the westernmost part of the Eurasia. To the north there lies icy Arctic Ocean, at west there

    • UPC: 866507053

  • Best European Cities You Must See - Audiobook

    Europe: the name is quite enough to describe the beauty of nature lying within the continent. Europe holds the westernmost part of the Eurasia. To the north there lies icy Arctic Ocean, at west there

    • UPC: 986105450

  • Castles and Fortified Cities of Medieval Europe : An Illustrated History

    9780786460991

    • UPC: 14243777

  • The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (A History of Urban Society in Europe) by David M Nicholas

    The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (A History of Urban Society in Europe) by David M Nicholas. Features include: 9780582299061 0582299063, Paperback, 432 pages, Edition: 1. Published

    • UPC: 28030041

  • Most Beautiful Places in Europe: The 20 most beautiful medieval cities in Europe

    Top 10 Best Medieval Cities in Europe

    Top 10 Popular Medieval Cities in Europe (PART - 1)