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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
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Include books by the same authorThe 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.
A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Steven Runciman · 394 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.
A 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.
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.
The Age of Faith
Will Durant · 1,196 pages
The Story of Civilization, Volume A history of medieval civilization—Christian, Islamic, and Judaic—from Constantine to A.D. 325-1300. This is the fourth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Alison Weir · 499 pages
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
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.
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
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
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
John Julius Norwich · 416 pages
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
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 Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Thomas Asbridge · 784 pages
From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the tw
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones, Alan Ereira · 256 pages
Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of couse, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants. . . and did outlaws never wear trousers? Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this m
Chronicles
Jean Froissart · 496 pages
One of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. Yet they are only part of this vigorous portrait of medieval life, which al
Medieval Europe: A Short History
Judith M. Bennett · 468 pages
"Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his realization, while in college, that o
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
Barbara A. Hanawalt · 364 pages
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer · 341 pages