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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
by David Levering Lewis  
Powells.com Staff Pick God's Crucible is an eye-opener. It's a finely written history of the early years of Islam. Many westerners will come away from the book with new understandings of the intersection of religions and cultures which spawned the Crusades. Recommended by...
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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...
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Vikings Rev Edition
by Else Roesdahl Synopsis An encyclopedic study bringing together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life with a view to assessing the Viking's impact on European history. Originally published in 1991 by...
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A Military History of Australia
by Jeffrey Grey Publisher Comments A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service...
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Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe (Middle Ages)
by Ruth Mazo (edt) Karras Publisher Comments In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and equity. Many...
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Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology)
by Luke (edt) Lavan Synopsis This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of...
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Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages (History of Warfare)
by John (edt) France Synopsis Why were mercenaries such a commonplace of war in the medieval and early modern periods and why have they traditionally been so poorly regarded? Who were mercenaries, and how were they distinguished from other soldiers? The contributors to this volume...
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A Military History of Australia
by Jeffrey Grey Publisher Comments A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service...
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Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500: Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication (Medieval Mediterranean)
by Alexander D. (edt) Beihammer Synopsis A significant contribution to the study of cross-cultural communicationand accommodationin the ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse world of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean as reflected in Byzantine, Latin and Islamic archival sources...
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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...
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The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
by Jerry Brotton Publisher Comments The Renaissance rang in changes at a breathtaking pace, changes that shape the world to this day. Now Jerry Brotton deftly captures this remarkable age, in a book that places Europe's great flowering in a revealing global context. It was Europe's contact...
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World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
by William Manchester Synopsis 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...
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Hinges of History #05: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements. After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a...
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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
by R A Scotti Publisher Comments In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peteras Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two...
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W Tuchman Synopsis "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...
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Jerry Brotton Publisher Comments More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe...
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies
by Raymond Clemens Book News Annotation Heavily illustrated with color plates of manuscript pages and details, this oversized volume (9x12") contains an thorough presentation of the study of medieval manuscripts that will be of use to medievalists as well as their students. The process of...
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Knights Templar Encyclopedia: The Essential Guide to the People, Places, Events, and Symbols of the Order of the Temple
by Karen Ralls Publisher Comments Today, as never before, interest in the Knights Templar is growing exponentially, especially since The Da Vinci Code. But who were these powerful knights of the Crusades? What is fact and what is fiction? And how did they become the wealthiest...
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The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music
by Craig Wright Publisher Comments A tourist visiting the famous cathedral at Chartres might be surprised to discover an enormous labyrinth embedded in the thirteenth-century floor. Why is it there? In this fascinating book Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in...
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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...
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