Medieval World, Hardcover

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...

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In a gritty medieval world where the ruling houses are based on the constellations, betrayal, intrigue, and a king's murder force the royal sisters...

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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...

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

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DescriptionA wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain...

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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 ...

The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original so...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, ...

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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 ...

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

Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europe...

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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...