Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe.

The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable blend of triumph, humiliation, heartbreak, and devotion-and Ms. Erickson recounts it all against the turbulent background of European politics, war, and religious strife of the mid-1500s. The result is a rare portrait of the times and of a woman elevated to unprecedented power in a world ruled and defined by men.

Bloody Mary

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Wear on top of spine. Writing inside cover. Mild curl on bottom of cover. See photos. Otherwise in great condition. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.

Baudolino

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Rated 4 out of 5 on Goodreads. ￼
Price sticker residue on back cover.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Debunking the Myths

Those Terrible Middle Ages!

#paperback #middleages  #history #Europe 

Tennessee

"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."--New Statesman It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance-until the disastrous fourteenth century rained catastrophe in the form of plagues, famine, and war. In Europe in the High Middle Ages, William Chester Jordan paints a vivid, teeming landscape that captures this lost age in all its glory and complexity. Here are the great popes who revived the power of the Church against the secular princes; the writers and thinkers who paved the way for the Renaissance; the warriors who stemmed the Islamic tide in Spain and surged into Palestine; and the humbler estates, those who found new hope and prosperity until the long night of the 1300s. From high to low, from dramatic events to social structures, Jordan's account brings to life this fascinating age. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series, edited by David Cannadine.

Europe in the High Middle Ages

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Bryn Hammond

First book in the trilogy series.
Rated an impressive 4.3 out of 5 on Goodreads 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Amgalant One

In the steppes of High Asia, the year 1166... 'What is a Mongol? - As free as the geese in the air, as in unison. The flights of the geese promise us we don't give up independence, to unite.'The hundred tribes of the Mongols have come together with one aim: to push back against the walls that have crept onto the steppe - farther than China has ever extended its walls before. Walls are repugnant to a nomad. But can people on horses push them down, even with a united effort? This story begins when nobody has heard of Mongols - not even most Chinese, who think the vast Northern Waste at its weakest and are right. A spectacular history starts obscurely... Against Walls is the first in a trilogy that gives voice to the Mongols in their explosive encounter with the great world under Tchingis Khan. Both epic and intimate, Amgalant sees the world through Mongol eyes. It's different from the world you know.

Against Walls

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Clean, unmarked copy. Prompt ams carefully shipped!

England's Greatest Medieval Warrior

The Black Prince

Minnesota

History

Ancient and Medieval History

#hardcover #nonfiction #womenhistory #medievalhistory

Iowa

Reconstructs the lives of "wild" women who wouldn't keep their places during medieval times, including Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, Caterina Da Vinci, and Lisa di Anton

Uppity Women of Medieval Times

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Celebration of Lost Words/A Compendium of Body Language

Poplollies and Bellibones/Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers

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#usborne #history #medievalhistory #medieval #homeschool #homeschoolbooks #educational

North Carolina

- Encyclopedia of World History (Combined Volume).

Medieval world - internet Linked

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Judith M. Bennett

District of Columbia

Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344

This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.

A Medieval Life

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Colorado

The Calamitous 14th Century

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

A Distant Mirror

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Maureen Quilligan

Making the Renaissance in Europe

In this game-changing revisionist history, a leading scholar of the Renaissance shows how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers—most notably, Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de’ Medici—whose lives were intertwined not only by blood and marriage, but by a shared recognition that their premier places in the world of just a few dozen European monarchs required them to bond together, as women, against the forces seeking to destroy them, if not the foundations of monarchy itself. Recasting the complex relationships among these four queens, Maureen Quilligan, a leading scholar of the Renaissance, rewrites centuries of historical analysis that sought to depict their governments as riven by personal jealousies and petty revenges. Instead, When Women Ruled the World shows how these regents carefully engendered a culture of mutual respect, focusing on the gift-giving by which they aimed to ensure ties of friendship and alliance. As Quilligan demonstrates, gifts were no mere signals of affection, but inalienable possessions, often handed down through generations, that served as agents in the creation of a steep social hierarchy that allowed women to assume political authority beyond the confines of their gender. “With brilliant panache” (Amanda Foreman), Quilligan reveals how eleven-year-old Elizabeth I’s gift of a handmade book to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, helped facilitate peace within the tumultuous Tudor dynasty, and how Catherine de’ Medici’s gift of the Valois tapestries to her granddaughter, the soon-to-be Grand Duchess of Tuscany, both solidified and enhanced the Medici family’s prestige. Quilligan even uncovers a book of poetry given to Elizabeth I by Catherine de’ Medici as a warning against the concerted attack launched by her closest counselor, William Cecil, on the divine right of kings—an attack that ultimately resulted in the execution of her sister, Mary, Queen of Scots. Beyond gifts, When Women Ruled the World delves into the connections the regents created among themselves, connections that historians have long considered beneath notice. “Like fellow soldiers in a sororal troop,” Quilligan writes, these women protected and aided each other. Aware of the leveling patriarchal power of the Reformation, they consolidated forces, governing as “sisters” within a royal family that exercised power by virtue of inherited right—the very right that Protestantism rejected as a basis for rule. Vibrantly chronicling the artistic creativity and political ingenuity that flourished in the pockets of peace created by these four queens, Quilligan’s lavishly illustrated work offers a new perspective on the glorious sixteenth century and, crucially, the women who helped create it.

When Women Ruled the World

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The book is a little rough around the edges. It definitely has been read several times. The binding is tight with no loose pages and there is no cracking of the spine.

Wisconsin

A Short History

Medieval Europe

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P. Boissonnade

Oregon

Erudite yet readable work traces the economic evolution of Europe from 5th to 15th century. Focusing on working people, it covers breakup of feudal estates, development of small craft industries and large capitalist enterprises, rise of wage laborers, development of technical advances in industry and agriculture, rise of international commerce and finance.

Life and Work in Medieval Europe

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A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of 'Medieval History: The life and death of a civilization'

The Civilization of the Middle Ages 

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Connections and Comparisons

Global Medieval Contexts 500-1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject, this textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. The expert author team aims to advance a global view of the period and introduce the reader to histories and narratives beyond an exclusively European context.

Key Features:

 * Divided into chronological sections, chapters are organized by four key themes: Religion, Economics, Politics, and Society. This framework enables students to connect wider ideas and debates across 500 to 1500.

 * Individual chapters address current theoretical discussions, including issues around gender, migration, and sustainable environments.

 * The authors' combined teaching experience and subject specialties ensure an engaging and accessible overview for students of history, literature, and those undertaking general studies courses.

 * Theory boxes and end-of-chapter questions provide a basis for group discussion and research. Full-color maps and images illustrate chapter content and support understanding.

As a result, this text is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about the histories and cultures of the period, as well as their relevance to our own contemporary experiences and perspectives.

This textbook is supported by a companion website providing core resources for students and lecturers.

Global Medieval Contexts 500 - 1500

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Sharon Kay Penman

New Mexico

Departing from the traditional Shakespearian and Tudor historical portraits, this saga depicts the love story of Richard III and Anne Neville against the backdrop of royal family intrigue

The Sunne in Splendour

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Plastic comb binding is tight, cover is in good condition, pages are clean and crisp. Previous owner’s name on inside cover. Comes with new, unused timeline.

Missouri

A Literature Approach 

Medieval Reformation and Renaissance History

Girolamo. Arnaldi

Antony Shugaar

2005 Harvard University Press.
Very clean tight tight copy,in very good dust jacket.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and âeoenative,âe liberally illustrated with interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources. A despairing Saint Jerome wrote, of the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410, âeoeMy sobs stop me from dictating these words. Behold, the city that conquered the world has been conquered in its turn.âe Other Christian authors, however, concluded that the sinning Romans had drawn the wrath of God upon them. Arnaldi traces the rise of Christianity, which in the transition from Roman to barbarian rule would provide a social bond that endured through centuries of foreign domination. Incursions cemented the separation between north and south: the Frankish conquerors held sway north of Rome, while the Normans settled in the south. In the ninth century, Sicily entered the orbit of the Muslim world when Arab and Berber forces invaded. During the Renaissance, flourishing cities were ravaged by foreign armiesâe"first the French, who during the siege of Naples introduced an epidemic of syphilis, then the Spanish, whose control preserved the countryâe(tm)s religious unity during the Counter-Reformation but also ensured that Italy would lag behind during the Enlightenment. Accessible and entertaining, this outside-in history of Italy is a telling reminder of the many interwoven strands that make up the fabric of modern Europe.

2005 ed. * Italy and Its Invaders

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"Discover a piece of history with this exquisite leather-bound edition of Malleus Maleficarum 1519, a pivotal text in the history of witchcraft and the occult. Originally authored by Jacobo Sprenger, this work served as a comprehensive guide for the persecution of witches during the late medieval period. Encased in luxurious leather, this edition is a must-have for collectors and history enthusiasts, offering both aesthetic appeal and a deep dive into the complexities of medieval thought. The Malleus Maleficarum—often translated as ""The Hammer of Witches""—was first published in 1487 and quickly became the authoritative source on witchcraft and demonology. Its detailed accounts and vivid descriptions offer a window into the fears and beliefs that shaped European societies during the witch hunts. This 1519 edition retains the original's intricate details and serves as a crucial artifact for understanding the dynamics of power, fear, and superstition that influenced the period. This edition is beautifully bound in high-quality leather, making it a timeless addition to any library. The leather cover not only enhances its durability but also adds a touch of elegance, making it a perfect gift for bibliophiles and scholars alike. Each page is crafted with care, reflecting the meticulous scholarship and enduring legacy of this controversial text.

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2005 ed. * Italy and Its Invaders

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