Medieval World, Hardcover

DescriptionAs a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he...

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

Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come t...

DescriptionFew images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea...

For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. This edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Dante's Divine Comedy using Longfellow's translation. The Divine Comedy is an epic poem w...

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreak...

Reducere. Discover the story of the English Church from its earliest times to the present day. Having taken root in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, it emerged in t...

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

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

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

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

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...

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. 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...

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

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 ...

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. 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. 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...

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

In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array ...

Reducere. The first offshoot of the internationally successful "Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, " "Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne" is the exploratio...

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...

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day....

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. 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...

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...

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

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...

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

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. 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...

Reducere. Wayward is the first installment in the Forbidden Heirs, a page-turning adventure about a medieval fantasy world and a riveting fantasy story about...

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

DescriptionWar bows were a mainstay of armies throughout the world from the earliest recorded battles over three thousand years ago to the 16th cen...

Reducere. DescriptionTo save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present ...

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...

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

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. 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 ...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Reducere. What did the medieval Spanish have against the Jews? Religion and Otherness? In that Catholic world Jews were heretics, and they had customs and la...

Reducere. A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly Novem...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Dark Ages: A C...

Reducere. Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. ...

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 ...

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

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...