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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
William Manchester · 318 pages
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Steven Runciman · 394 pages
Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization
Norman F. Cantor · 584 pages
Studies on the ideas and institutions of Western civilization from 200 A.D. to 1500 A.D.
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
John Boswell · 436 pages
From back cover: Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consul
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore · 672 pages
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and
Revelations of the Medieval World
Georges Duby, Philippe Aries · 672 pages
The second volume of "A History of Private Life" is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich · 416 pages
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity
Peter R.L. Brown · 204 pages
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf · 293 pages
Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
Thomas Cahill · 368 pages
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, this book is 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 rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the hea
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
John Kelly · 384 pages
Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period.
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger · 240 pages
Presents what life was like in the year 1000 for an Englishman.
The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Dawn of the Renaissance
Johan Huizinga · 344 pages
The Making of the Middle Ages
R.W. Southern · 280 pages
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman · 704 pages
Amazon.com Review In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · 1,161 pages
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the fir
The History of the Franks
Gregory of Tours · 164 pages
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede · 358 pages
Magic in the Middle Ages
Richard Kieckhefer · 219 pages
"This book will approach magic as a kind of crossroads where different pathways in medieval culture converge. First of all it is a point of intersection between religion and science. Demonic magic invokes evil spirits and rests upon a network of religious beliefs and practices, while natural magic exploits "occult" powers within nature and is essentially a branch of medieval science. Yet demonic a
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
Rodney Stark
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Tom Holland · 476 pages
**Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000** **'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting'** ALLAN MASSIE, *SPECTATOR* **'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best'** DOMINIC SANDBROOK, *EVENING STANDARD* *
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Carlo Ginzburg · 177 pages
The Templars
Piers Paul Read · 368 pages