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Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman Publisher Comments The gripping story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an army of exhausted and starving western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events in history—with a legacy that... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages by David Nirenberg Publisher Comments In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Death by John Hatcher Publisher Comments In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-395) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Vikings (Discoveries) by Yves Cohat Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France by Georges Duby Publisher Comments This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like When Longships Sailed: Vikings Ad 800-1100 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Devil's World: Heresy and Society 1100-1300 by Andrew Roach Publisher Comments ‘Medieval Europe was a market-place whose principal commodity was religion. Because heresy meant choice, it was as subject to market forces as to the terrors of the devil or the Inquisition. Catharism was a lifestyle rather than a frightening... (read more) List Price $59.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crusades by Hans Eberhard Mayer Publisher Comments The second edition of this standard introduction to the Crusades has been extensively rewritten to take account of the latest research and interpretations. Mayer covers all the expeditions which took place between the First Crusade in 1096 and the final... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone Publisher Comments Four Queens is a rich pageant of glamour, intrigue, and feminine power at a time when women were thought to have played limited roles. In thirteenth-century Europe, four sisters from a single family-Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice of Provenand#... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age by William Manchester Publisher Comments With more than 200,000 copies sold in hardcover and paperback, William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages. Though the paperback edition remains available, this durable... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis Publisher Comments In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew. At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a momentous revolution in power, religion, and culture... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck Publisher Comments On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl—a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his empire and forever shape the destiny of Europe... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The First European Revolution (Making of Europe) by R I Moore Publisher Comments This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence by Marc Bloch Publisher Comments "Few have set themselves to the formidable task of reconstructing and analyzing a whole human environment; fewer still have succeeded. Bloch dared to do this and was successful; therein lies the enduring achievement of Feudal Society."—Charles... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crusades - Essential Histories Edition (01 Edition) by David Nicolle Publisher Comments Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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