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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
HardcoverOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the tradition of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic ...
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The Quest for El Cid
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish ...
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's atten...
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The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In this seminal work, described by the Times Literary Supplement as "impressive alike by the authority of its learning and the originality of its...
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The Malleus Maleficarum
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Also known as "The Witch Hammer," The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER...
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Illustrated and Annotated
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. Without these vi...
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Francis of Assisi: The Life
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints was originally published as Part 1 of Francis of Assisi: A New ...
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Red: The History of a Color
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the agesThe color red has represented many things, from the lif...
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a lo...
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, ...
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many ...
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, tor...
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The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple, 1119-1312
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The warrior knights of the cross The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially end...
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /John Boswell’s National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreakin...
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Freder...
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Award-winning author-illustrator David Macaulay brings readers into a beautiful exploration of Roman buildings and construction. With black and w...
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The Return of Martin Guerre
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The clever 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 swa...
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of No...
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Records of the Medieval Sword
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The origins, development and use of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, from the great migrations to the Renaissance.Forty ...
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion...
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Civilization of the Middle Ages
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new materia...
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The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only...
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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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Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman mona...
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