Medieval People

Shogun is the 1st book in the Asian Saga: Chronological Order Series. Presents an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integratio...

This is not an ordinary history book. As readers will realise quite early on, Neagu Djuvara has the audacity to tackle some of the most delicate an...

A lively exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by an eminent historian.Illustrations: 26 Illustrations, color

Reducere. O scurta istorie ilustrata a romanilor - Neagu Djuvara This is not an ordinary history book. As readers will realise quite early on, Neagu Djuvara ...

Presents a narrative history that reveals the roots of modern science in the medieval world. This book debunks many of the myths about the Middle A...

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and...

This work is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed ...

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

Reducere. Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself brings the Middle Ages in Europe alive through hands-on activities for kids ages 9-12. Addressing va...

Mention 'Medieval Knights' and people may think of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. They were real men who strapped themselves into ...

DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...

Reducere. This is a book about how medieval weapons were used, according to medieval people who used them. It discusses the use of eight weapons or weapon co...

Reducere. After the fall of Rome and before the Renaissance, people lived within a grim era known as the Dark Ages. Inside The Medieval Horse you will learn ...

A unique addition to the increasingly popular trend of looking at the ordinary lives of people. Provides an important perspective from the ground u...

Reducere. Why a 'spectacle' of the body? Why not an 'imaginary' of the body or 'images' or perhaps 'concepts'? Even to the lay reader, the two sets - 'specta...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

``Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention... Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval Ci...

Reducere. The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and ...

Reducere. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives w...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the perio...

Subtitled: }A Handbook For Visitors To The Fourteenth Century{. A history lesson in the guide of a chatty, funny guidebook which prepares the reade...

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and betwe...

This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering the first sustained analysis of how ordinar...

Reducere. Only a unicorn's horn can purify the water in your medieval village. Thus YOU set off on a quest to find the unicorn that can save your people, enc...

The story of a man who rose from peasant stock to become Estonia's most famous medieval chronicler - The second novel in a historical trilogy by Es...

Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of t...

Chipping Norton today is a thriving Oxfordshire market town of some 6, 500 people at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds. Its handsome Georgian house...

An exploration of werewolf beliefs and legends from Classical Antiquity to the post-medieval period - Examines werewolf tales and stories from earl...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and...

The relationship between people and parish in the late medieval ages illuminated by this study of a remarkable survival from the period.

DescriptionHans Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the 'jud...

These excerpts from works of philosophy and religion, history and drama, fiction, poetry, and other genres introduce the many facets of medieval li...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and ...

Reducere. A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second h...

Reducere. Today, as never before, interest in the Knights Templar is growing exponentially, especially since The Da Vinci Code. But who were these powerful k...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meanin...

Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...

In 1086 England's mighty king, William the Conqueror, sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Whe...

Reducere. Ever wonder how good you'd be with a sword? This book is for you.Do you love movie sword fights? Learn how real sword fighting works.Are you into s...

A magical and captivating coming of age novel set in medieval Russia - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's...

When thinking about Ninjas, people often picture deadly killers wearing black clothing. However, while ninjas could be fierce and skilled warriors,...

The story of two archaeological sites in Greater Manchester shows how people lived and worked the rural landscape in post-medieval period.Publisher...

Paperback edition of the book which takes the reader back to Elizabethan times, looking at what people ate, where they lived, what they wore, and w...

Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who gave our langu...

Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the...

Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the...

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s):...

This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the secon...

From the humble garb of peasants to the elaborate styles of the nobility, this meticulously researched coloring book offers expertly rendered illus...

Most of us enjoy a regular stroll in our local wood, but we might not be aware of the ancient origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woo...

The Intolerant Middle Ages is a collection of primary sources on the history of persecution. The goal of the book is to highlight instances of pers...

DescriptionFor centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around t...

Reducere. Revolutions in Worldview traces the historical development of the western mind through ten eras. It explores the fundamental ideas that revolutioni...

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that ...

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that ...

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and betwe...

Which language should we use in philosophy: technical or common language? Medieval philosophers and Renaissance humanists differed widely on this m...

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced ...

Reducere. This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fre...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen thinking about Ninjas people often picture deadly killers wearing black clothing. However, while ninjas could be fierce and skilled...

Guidebook to the Borders Abbeys Way, a 68 mile circuit in the Scottish Borders, taking in 4 of Britain's grandest ruined medieval abbeys. Beginning...

Reducere. This is the second of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume...

Reducere. In Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called ...

Reducere. For Dante and other people in the Middle Ages, numbers had a different set of connotations than they do for moderns. The symbolism of numbers was b...

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of phar...

We think with objects--we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions...

Reducere. The teachings of Judaism's greatest medieval philosopher can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.No Jewish thinker has had a more signific...