Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

By: Richard E. Rubenstein

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Publisher: Harcourt: 2004

Seller ID: 74104

ISBN: 0156030098

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Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas sparked riots and heresy trials, caused major upheavals... View more info

Dateline: Troy by Fleischman, Paul; Morrow, Glenn; Frankfeldt, Gwen

By: Paul Fleischman; Illustrator-Glenn Morrow; Illustrator-Gwen Frankfeldt

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Publisher: Candlewick:

Seller ID: 31579

ISBN: 1564024695

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Gods & Goddesses In the Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by Hicks, Peter; Salariya, David

By: Peter Hicks; David Salariya; Mark Bergin; John James; Nick Hewetson; Gerald Wood

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Publisher: Brighter Child:

Seller ID: 32975

ISBN: 0872265951

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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History)

By: Thomas Cahill

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Publisher: Nan A. Talese: October 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 74092

ISBN: 0385495579

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From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history--this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the We... View more info

Mediaeval Society

By: Sidney Painter

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Publisher: Cornell University Press: September 1951

Seller ID: 73950

ISBN: 0801498503

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An introduction to the understanding of everyday life in the early Middle Ages. The social history of this period has been studied intensively for years, but few brief, concrete, and comprehensive accounts of daily life in medieval Europe have appeared. To fill this gap Professor Painter has written an essay that could be read by the college history student with benefit. It outlines the most important technical developments, and infuses the life of this period with under... View more info

The First Crusade: A New History

By: Thomas Asbridge

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 74095

ISBN: 0195178238

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On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire. Now, in The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes and barbarity on a vast scale. Rea... View more info

The Medieval Experience (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

By: Francis Oakley

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division: March 1988

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 73944

ISBN: 0802067077

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Originally published by Charles Scribners' Sons, 1974.'The perspective from which this book has been written is that of world history; the conviction determining its focus, that of Western cultural peculiarity or singularity; the belief suggesting its unifying theme, that it was during the medieval period - in particular, during the centuries from the eleventh onward - that the foundations were laid on which the edifice of Western cultural peculiarity was subseque... View more info

The Middle Ages (Cambridge Introduction to World History)

By: Trevor Cairns

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: April 1973

Seller ID: 73942

ISBN: 0521077265

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