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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Everyone knows the image. No one knows its story. This is the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the nature of genius, the beauty of the human... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Genghis Khan and Making of Modern World (04 Edition) by Jack Weatherford Publisher Comments The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin Publisher Comments "This book provides an introduction to Byzantium in a nonconventional fashion. It explores, in chronological order, basic questions about Byzantine history and society. I know of no other book that attempts this approach to the millennium-long history of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics) by Mandeville Publisher Comments Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of the East for several centuries—a work that went on to influence luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicles by Froissart Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England by Louise J. Wilkinson Publisher Comments As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captured the king and secured control of royal government. A... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Baroque Personae (95 Edition) by Rosario (ed.) Villari Publisher Comments The Baroque, which stretched from the end of the sixteenth to the second half of the seventeenth century, is one of the most enigmatic eras in history. In this book, thirteen distinguished scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $14.00 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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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican with Poster by Benjamin Blech Publisher Comments Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Medieval Technology and Social Change (62 Edition) by Lynn Jr. White Review "Excellent."--Louis P. Towles, Central Wesleyan College "The most stimulating book of the century on the history of technology...a positive delight."--Isis "At once an advance in the study of medieval technology and also the best introduction to the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World by Valerie Louise Garver Publisher Comments Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Paul Lunde Publisher Comments A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing-in an important new translation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Edition) by William Langland Publisher Comments Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a... (read more) List Price $21.30 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars Who Razed the Old World and Formed the Ne by Thomas J. Craughwell Publisher Comments How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars Who Razed the Author Thomas J. Craughwell reveals the fascinating tales of how the barbarian rampages across Europe, North Africa, and Asia... (read more) Your price: $19.95 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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How To Do It : Guides To Good Living for Renaissance Italians (99 Edition) by Rudolph M. Bell Publisher Comments How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $15.50 Used - 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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The Vikings and Their Origins by David M Wilson Publisher Comments This book is intended not only to portray an image of the Vikings but to show something of the culture of the Scandinavian countries in which they were settled in the four centuries before they burst on the European scene.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 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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