Medieval world

"Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle...

Reducere. In The Story of Civilization text book, children will live through the ancient stories that shaped humanity. Author Phillip Campbell uses his histo...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian inva...

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting ...

Examines one of the greatest ages of European civilisation through a series of images that illuminate the religion, law, daily life, art, architect...

In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world. Born in Venice in 1254, the young Marco Polo fi...

Warriors in the Medieval World examines the different roles of foot soldiers and knights in Medieval history as well as the development of heavier ...

Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils' knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them ...

Reducere. With this test book, students can assess their reading comprehension and further educate themselves on the content found in the text. One quiz corr...

DescriptionThese are the stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history. The lives and actions of mediev...

Occitania, known today as the "south of France, " had its own language and culture in the Middle Ages. Its troubadours created "courtly love" and a...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

DescriptionA celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--an...

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...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 ...

Reducere. The Activity Book provides a complete review of everything read in the text book, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter, includi...

Reducere. This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of...

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...

Reducere. In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders...

Up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian legend, using both fact and fiction to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of ...

Focusing on the works of 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, bishop and polymath of the Church of the East, this study examines the intellectual strategies emplo...

Reducere. Medieval Mississippians, the eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eas...

Reducere. DescriptionThis series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO(R) creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it Racecars, yo...

Reducere. DescriptionThis series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO(R) creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it Medieval Wor...

The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraord...

The various objects chosen by the author tell the story of the conflicts which shaped the nature of the Western World known today, both in spiritua...

Reducere. William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.About the Author: Wil...

Reducere. Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

Reducere. In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, incl...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

Reducere. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle A...

Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society, i...

The book analyses the medieval vision of the world as depicted in Dante Alighieri's poetic works. In detail it discusses two works, The Banqued and...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Simon TaylorCollection: Edexcel GCE History 2015Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 275 x 220 x 20Cove...

In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the ...