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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds Publisher Comments This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their contacts with one another transformed them all. It chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Trade Paper
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Byzantine Slavery And The Meditterranean World by Youval Rotman Publisher Comments Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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1492: The Year the World Began by Felipe Fernandez-armesto Publisher Comments The world would end in 1492--so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernAndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Holy Feast & Holy Fast: Religious Significance Food Medieval by Caroline Walker Bynum Synopsis Examines the role of food in the religion of women in the Middle Ages and argues that food practices enabled women to exert power in the family and define their religious vocations.... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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Assassins: The Story of Medieval Islam's Secret Sect by W. B. Bartlett Publisher Comments The so-called Assassins--men who had no fear of death and were trained to kill--are one of the most spectacular legends of medieval history. Since the tales of Marco Polo and others, the myths surrounding them have been fantastically embellished and the... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cheese and the Worms : the Cosmos of a Seventeenth-century Miller (80 Edition) by Carlo Ginzburg Publisher Comments "A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham Publisher Comments The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more... (read more) Your price: $245.25 New - Hardcover
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga Publisher Comments "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." Washington Post Book World The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age by William Manchester Publisher Comments From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England (York Medieval Press) by Helen Lacey Publisher Comments The letter of pardon was a document familiar to the king's subjects in the middle ages; imbued with symbolic resonance as the judgement of the monarch, it also served a practical purpose, offering a last hope of reprieve from the death sentence or life... (read more) List Price $104.25 Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Chronicles by Froissart And Brereton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (92 Edition) by Bartolome De Las Casas Publisher Comments No work is a stronger, more exacting, heartbreaking record of the Spanish atrocities in the genocidal enterprise of colonization in the Americas. This account provides an eyewitnessÆs history of the process in the territory of Columbus.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chronicles of the Crusades by Joinville And Shaw Publisher Comments These two famous Old French chronicles were composed by soldiers who took part in the Holy Wars and offer both eyewitness accounts of the battles and pictures of life in the East.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders by Jeff Rider Synopsis *Leading medieval scholars analyze one of the best-known historical narratives of the Middle Ages*... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Trade Paper
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Plagues and Peoples by William Mcneill Publisher Comments Upon its original publication, "Plagues and Peoples" was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissance Secrets: Recipes & Formulas by Jo Wheeler Synopsis From recipes for aphrodisiacs to formulas for everything from lip balm to stain removers to paint pigments, this book unveils the secret world of Renaissance lotions and potions. Clothbound with marbled endpapers and superbly illustrated with relevant... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici by Miles J Unger Publisher Comments Magnifico is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as Il... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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