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A Knight at the Movies
John Aberth
Paperback - $57.95
Long before "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," Hollywood's version of the Middle Ages had sometimes been laughable. Who can resist chuckling at "The Black Knight" (1954), in which Arthurian warriors ride across a plain complete with telephone poles i ...
From the Brink of the Apocalypse : Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages
John Aberth
Hardcover - $180.95
This study of Europe during the Middle Ages looks at the war, famine, plague, and death that were prevalent, and compares the time period to the themes of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Illustrations.
The Black Death : The Great Mortality of 1348-1350
John Aberth
Hardcover - $95.95
A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides ...
The New Cambridge Medieval History
David Abulafia
Hardcover - $417.95
Volume 5 brings together studies of the political, religious, social and economic history of the whole of Europe and of the Mediterranean world between about 1198 and 1300. Comprehensive coverage of the developments in western Europe is balanced by a ...
Civilization During the Middle Ages Especially in Relation to Modern Civilization
George Burton Adams
Paperback - $56.95
1903. Contents: What the Middle Ages Started With; The Addition of Christianity; The German Conquest and the Fall of Rome; What the Germans Added; The Formation of the Papacy; The Franks and Charlemagne; After Charlemagne; The Feudal System; The Empi ...
Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Jenny Adams
Hardcover - $95.95
Reading through influential texts of the later Middle Ages, Adams shows how specific representations of chess encoded concerns about political organization, civic community, and individual autonomy.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages
Julia De Wolf Gi Addison
Paperback - $29.95
A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance.