Medieval World, Hardcover

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

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 ...

The Wars of the Lord is the major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence, one of the outstanding philosophers of the medieval world. This work ex...

A clear, simple and entertaining guide to the land once considered the jewel of the medieval world. Part of the adult range of Ladybird books, with...

Reducere. This work examines in detail most of the controversial issues that had preoccupied the medieval mind: immortality of the human soul, prophecy, huma...

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. A companion guide to Amsterdam's world-class art collection, Rijksmuseum: 1100-1600 presents over 100 late-medieval and renaissance highlights prod...

Reducere. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ag...

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. In Mastering the Art of Arms, Volume One: The Medieval Dagger, Guy Windsor presents a complete guide to the principles and practice of Italian dagg...

Reducere. "An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of history with elegance and panache."--Dan Carlin, host of Hardcore His...

DescriptionFrom their small county in the heart of France, the lords of Anjou - the Angevins - produced dynasties that became kings of Jerusalem, E...

Reducere. DescriptionThis children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, a...

DescriptionA manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Pic...

The Divine Comedy (Italian: La Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely conside...

Three great cosmological worldviews--of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world--arose from a union of ancient and medieval tho...

Mappae mundi (maps of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their pla...

Reducere. In his first book composed in English, R mi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created ...

DescriptionHow philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Devel...

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 ...

DescriptionAll around the world there are festivals that reach back through the sands of time to medieval carnival traditions, and beyond. The fest...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael EdelsonFor centuries, masters of defense throughout the world jealously guarded their knowledge, sharing it only wi...

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...

DescriptionA lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout th...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic ...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

Reducere. Journey back in time to take part in a mammoth hunt, march with a Roman soldier, and fly with the Wright brothers. Explore what history looked like...

Reducere. During his career as an actor, William Gillette portrayed world-renowned character Sherlock Holmes in more than 1, 300 performances. His career as ...

DescriptionThe Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art--one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progres...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

A Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from the Paleolithic period to the...

Reducere. Lemkovyna: A History of the Lemko Region of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe is both a celebration of the mountain area the author calls ...

Reducere. Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World features a diversity of themes and a multidisciplinary variety of approaches and covers a large h...

Traces the origins of the Sheela na gig from Medieval times to Paleolithic cave art - Reveals the sacred display of the vulva to be a universal arc...

DescriptionFLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books drawing on ancient, medieval and modern writing. Offer...

Reducere. The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expert...

Reducere. Award NameNational Jewish Book AwardAward categoryJewish Thought"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers comp...

Reducere. Complete with recipes, a mouthwatering look at the complicated origins and rise of the world's favorite garbanzo bean spread and dip. This is a glo...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of France, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of France: A Capt...

Reducere. The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid pictures. Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the funloving scatterbrain, like Lucille Ball,...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Po...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...India is a land of mystery, richness, and deep spiritual discovery. E...

Reducere. In Medieval times, people believed the Earth was flat and that the sun rotated around it. The Catholic Church considered it heresy to suggest that ...

Reducere. A rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar Le...

DescriptionA magnificent new book on the Pre-Raphaelites--oversized, gorgeously illustrated, and packed with insight Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John E...

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, w...

Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading...It was with horror and sadness that the people of the w...

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Silk Roads continue to capture the imagination of the public, and, in 2014, a section of the land routes was designated a World Heri...

DescriptionSwords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were enshrined in writing. Many were curated for generation...

Reducere. Gold: the Final Standard (2017) effectively forms a trilogy with Gold: the Once and Future Money (2007) and Gold: the Monetary Polaris(2013), betwe...

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Reducere. ``This is not everyone's favorite, but its on everyone's list. This is the most widely published and read book on spirituality in our tradition. It...

Reducere. Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilization and the first study of the global implications of the expan...

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. K. EdinIn the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to e...

The forces of freedom are challenged everywhere by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it is Jihadist terrorism, Putin's imperialism, or t...

DescriptionLineages of the eerie, the strange and the fantastical: from Blake, Goya and Redon to Borremans, Yuskavage and MarshallEndless Enigma: E...

Reducere. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian annals have been thoroughly consulted and carefully s...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In paintin...

Reducere. Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, has been an active Artistic Director and Concept Designer for the gaming industry for over 15 years. In Structura 2, he d...

DescriptionWitchcraft: A Secret History unravels the myth from the mystery, the facts from the legends. Meet all the witches of your imagination an...

Reducere. What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have differe...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think explores a fascinating question: how do myths that were deeply embedded in the customs and beliefs of ...

Reducere. "The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela" presents the first complete English translation of Book Five of the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Codex Ca...