The Armor of Light : Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325
Meredith Parsons Lillich
Listed under Stained Glass
The
Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
What, for medieval men and women, was life's meaning? By what codes
of behavior and honor did they conduct their daily lives? In the 1920s,
the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga pondered such questions in weighty tomes
that were available only to scholars. This book -- the full version of
Huizinga's stripped-down Waning of the Middle Ages, a required text in
college courses in medieval history -- allows the reader to follow Huizinga's
arguments at leisure. Huizinga introduces us to "the strict hierarchy of
fabrics, colors, and furs" in courtly society," to the hidden meanings
in the paintings of Van Eyck and Velazquez, to the scholarly and ecclestiastical
debates that accompanied every social change. The reader emerges enriched
for the experience. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 468 pages
University of Chicago Press (Trd); ISBN: 0226359948;
(November 1997)
Cistercian
Europe: Architecture of Contemplation
by Terryl N. Kinder, Michael Downey
Explores the architecture and the monastic life of many famous Cisterian
abbeys from the middle ages.
Hardcover: 407 pages
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; ISBN: 0802838871; (April
2002)
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf, Jon Rothschild
Listed under The Crusades
Distant
Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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 of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book,
was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and
elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants
under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War,
the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies,
pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what
they had done to deserve such horrors. Amazon.com
Paperback: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345349571;
Reissue edition (July 1987)
Early
Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art)
by Lawrence Nees
(Paperback -- June 2002)
Elizabeth : The Struggle for the Throne
by David Starkey
Listed under Elizabeth I
From Bannockburn to Flodden: Wallace, Bruce, & the Heroes of
Medieval Scotland
by Walter, Sir Scott, George Grant (Introduction)
Listed under Medieval England
Hawks in the Hand : Adventures in Photography and Falconry
Frank and John Craighead
Listed under Falconry
A
History of Pagan Europe
by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick (Contributor)
(Paperback - March 1997)
Letters
of Abelard and Heloise, The
by Peter Abelard, Betty Radice
Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as
the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious
faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected,
12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented
young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one
another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard
writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to
you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to
name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy
and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the
challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard
became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as
both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with
their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates
the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love
story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their
struggle still resonate with readers. Amazon.com
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
Book Published: 03 September, 1998
The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle
Ages
by Joseph Kaufmann, et al
Listed under Castles & Fortresses
Medieval
Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With
Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games
by Daniel Diehl, Mark Donnelly
(Paperback -- May 2001)
The
North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of
North-Western Europe
by Thomas R. Liszka (Editor), Lorna E. M. Walker (Editor)
(Hardcover -- July 2001)
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage
by Arthur Koestler
Listed under Medieval Russia
Medieval Siege Warfare (Elite Series, Vol 28)
by Christopher Gravett, Angus McBride (Illustrator)
Listed under Castles & Fortresses
Kings,
Queens, Bones and Bastards : Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert
to Elizabeth II
by David Hilliam
(Paperback - April 2000)
The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger.
by Henricus Institoris, Montague Summers
Originally published in Germany in 1486, this extraordinary fabrication
documents the beliefs of the Catholic Church towards paganism and witchcraft
during the middle ages.
Listed under History of Witchcraft
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman F. Cantor
Listed under The Plague
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting
and Close-Quarter Combat
by Hans Talhoffer, et al
Listed under Ancient Weapons
Ready-To-Use Medieval Illustrations : 424 Different Copyright-Free
Designs Printed Pne Side (Dover Clip-Art Series)
by Maggie Kate (Editor)
Listed under Medieval Clip Art
The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most
Powerful Military Order of the Crusades
by Piers Paul Read
Listed under Knights Templar
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created
a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
by Maria Rosa Menocal, Harold Bloom
Listed under Medieval Spain
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
by James, Jr. Reston
Listed under The Crusades
A
World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait
of an Age
by William Manchester
It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian
William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect,
the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European
powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant
revolts and religious reform that they never quite got around to realizing
the possibilities of contemporary innovations in public health, civil engineering,
and other peaceful pursuits. Instead, they waged war in faraway lands,
created and lost fortunes, and squandered millions of lives. For all the
wastefulness of medieval societies, however, Manchester notes, the era
created the foundation for the extraordinary creative explosion of the
Renaissance. Drawing on a cast of characters numbering in the hundreds,
Manchester does a solid job of reconstructing the medieval world, although
some scholars may disagree with his interpretations. - Amazon.com
Paperback: 322 pages
Little Brown & Co (Pap); ISBN: 0316545562; Reprint
edition (June 1993)
The
Waning of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
Paperback: 352 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x
8.48 x 5.43
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486404439; (January 1999)
Water
Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks After
the Roman Empire
(Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Roberta J. Magnusson
(Hardcover - December 2001)
Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages
by Joachim Bumke
ASIN: 0520066340
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