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An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire “A masterwork.”—William Dalrymple, Financial Times “A landmark …
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions …
It is equally true that the Reformation was inspired and defined by the Bible and that the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual, political, and cultural forces of the …
Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to …
Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopher Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, …
In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. …
An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs …
The first English translation of The Life of Christina of Hane, a gripping account of a largely unknown medieval female mystic “Who was Christina of Hane? History knows little …
A sequel to Nicholas Orme’s widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of …
Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the …