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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining ...
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation...
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The Penguin Book of Hell
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." —The New York Times Book ReviewThree...
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The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medieval...
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Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $57.95 - Original price $57.95Original price $57.95$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side. As Robert Chazan points ou...
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Heresies of the High Middle Ages / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /This volume presents an extensive collection of Medieval sources for the history of the popular heresies in Western Europe. Product DetailsISBN-1...
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The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $98.00 - Original price $98.00Original price $98.00$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity,...
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The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessor’s singular theological vision through the prism of Christ’s cosmic and historical Incarnation. J...
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Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This ...
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The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessor's singular theological vision through the prism of Christ's cosmic and historical Incarnation.Jord...
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An instant New York Times bestseller, from the author of Crusaders, that finally tells the real story of the Knights Templar--"Seldom does one find...
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The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages. The men and women that f...
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Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation t...
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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources t...
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts....
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Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A riveting account of the lives and epic battles of eight Western defenders against violent Islamic jihad that sheds much-needed light on the endur...
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The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlighten...
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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion. The que...
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The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public an...
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Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman e...
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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion l...
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Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Political Thought in the Mamluk Period covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayy...
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary ke...
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Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with ...
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