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Real Middle-Earth(2022) BATES, BRIANAn engaging popular history of the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Accommodated Jew(2016) LAVEZZO, KATHYIn The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature.Vezava: Trda106,64 € -
Kulikovo 1380(2019) GALEOTTI, MARK (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA)The colourful, enthralling story of the Russo-Mongol battle of Kulikovo, involving: the killing of a Muscovite prince (only for it to turn out to be a body double) and an unexpected ambush to turn looming defeat into glorious victory.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Shrewsbury 1403(2017) WHITEWOOD, DICKONA highly illustrated study of the battle of Shrewsbury, made famous by Shakespeare in Henry IV Part 1, which secured Henry IV on the throne.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France(2022)Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.Vezava: Trda163,65 € -
Power and Justice in Medieval England(2022) TATE, JOSHUA C., J.D., PH.D.How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common lawVezava: Trda78,75 € -
Portmahomack(2016) CARVER, MARTIN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF YORK)Portmahomack today is a serene fishing village on the Dornoch Firth, north east Scotland where archaeological excavations have written a new history of the origins of Scotland. This book brings alive the expedition and its discoveries, most famously a monVezava: Mehka50,95 € -
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World(2014) RICHARDSON, KRISTINA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.Vezava: Mehka46,32 € -
History of the Islamic World, 600-1800(2020) VAN STEENBERGEN, JOA History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.Vezava: Mehka74,12 € -
Breakspear(2022) WADDINGHAM, R. A. J.The first biography in over a century of Adrian IV , the only English pope in the history of the Catholic ChurchVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Real Valkyrie(2021) BROWN, NANCY MARIENancy Marie Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriorsVezava: Trda28,04 € -
King Arthur Conspiracy(2020) STIRLING, SIMONA controversial book offering evidence that Arthuir mac Aedain was the real King Arthur and locates his final burial placeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Byzantine Hellene(2019) ANGELOV, DIMITER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS)The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling over a Byzantine state in exile after the disastrous Fourth Crusade, illuminate the transformation of the politics and culture of Byzantium and unveil littVezava: Trda82,25 € -
Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain(1999)John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625) authored histories that projected the Gothic achievements back on to their uncertain beginnings, transforming them from antagonists of the Roman Empire to protagonists of a new, independent ChistianitVezava: Mehka65,65 € -
Richard III: Classic Histories Series(2016) HICKS, PROF MICHAELA history of Richard IIIVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles(1993) HUTTON, RONALD (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL)This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britaina s history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, thaVezava: Mehka62,29 € -
Birth of Modern Belief(2021) SHAGAN, ETHAN H.An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modernVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Shakespeare's Kings(2018) NORWICH, JOHN JULIUSIn a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales(1978) OF WALES, GERALDScholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages. This title describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. It provides a view into the medieval world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €










