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Berkley: University of California Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This is the first comprehensive biography of Fulk Nerra, an important medieval ruler, who came to power in his teens and rose to be master in the west of the French Kingdom. Descendant of warriors and.....
![Item #15838 Journal of Inventions: Leonardo da Vinci [Pop-up Book]. Jasper Bark](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15838.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656709649)
San Diego, CA: Silver Dolphin Books, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardover. This fascinating book is an exquisite collection of elaborate 3-D pop-ups and detailed illustrations based on the personal notebooks and sketches of the Renaissance’s most influential mind. Discover da Vinci’s Mechanical Man, coil-spring clock mechanisms, hydraulic.....
New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The representation of love in medieval decorations, paintings, and drawings offers an intriguing glimpse into the society and philosophy of that time. Interpreting these depictions as having a specific purpose to inspire love or eroticism.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Book Club Edition. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. As important as the characters in the foreground is the Italy against which this drama is played out, a place of warring cities and dynastic machinations where high culture and gross cruelty.....
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. Mrts, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. An in-depth examination of how Spanish and Portuguese literary masterpieces from between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries subtly contributed to the changing social attitudes and cultures in a "Renaissance" transitional era, that gradually transformed.....
New York: Harcourt, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A wonderfully accessible, beautifully illustrated chronicle of Jewish life through the ages, based on the best recent scholarship. With essays by Jane Gerber, Oded Irshai, Ora Limor, Michael Marrus, Derek Penslar, Seth Schwartz, David Sorkin.....
London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Hardcovers in Dust Jackets in Slipcase. From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, over 600 historic people of Medieval Europe between 500 AD and 1500.
USA: Prestel, 2011. Hardcover. Featuring fifty masterworks by Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, this stunning book examines the brilliant painters who transformed the art of Renaissance Venice.Venetian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries transcended the spatial, textural, and emotional realism of their predecessors to create works unsurpassed in.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In a period of intensely personal kingship, the royal court and household formed the political hub of the kingdom.Using a wide range of primary sources, many of which have never been analyzed in detail.....
![Item #17858 Arms and Armor [The Odyssey Library]. Stephen V. Grancsay](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706551805)
USA: The Odyssey Press, 1964. Weaponry of the Middle Ages.
Ohio: Kent State Univ Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. The Danse Macabre of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in a lavishly illuminated late medieval manuscript. The only Dance of Death devoted entirely to women, it was written by an anonymous author and subsequently.....
USA: Penn State University Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses.....
London: The Folio Society. 2004. Second Printing. Hardcovers in a Slipcase. In their sheer vitality and strength of feeling, wealth of craftsmanship and opulence of materials, the visual arts of the Middle Ages illuminated dark and dangerous times. Illustrators, sculptors, glaziers; architects, mosaicists, goldsmiths, stonemasons - all played their part.....
Mahwah, NY: Hidden Spring, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Although the whole of Francis's life was based on his belief in God, he was the least dogmatic of saints, seeing himself as God's troubadour or fool. It is unnecessary to share his faith.....
![Item #17159 The Ottoman Empire [The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire]. Lord Kinross](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691081302)
London: The Folio Society, 2003. First Edition, Thus. Cloth hardcover in a slipcase. The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI.....
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, imprimeurs de l'institut, 1887. First Edition, First Printing. Half-leather. [Title Translation] Old France | Chivalry and the Crusades. Feudalism - Blazon - Military Orders. Illustrated book of 214 engravings and a chromolithography from the great works of Paul Lacroix on the Middle Ages and.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 'This marvelous book offers a magisterial, and splendidly readable, guide to the history of the cultures of the Mediterranean world.' [ Anthony Appiah].
London: Amber Books Ltd, 2012. Designed by Rick Fawcett. A Fine Hardcover. Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written about 1513 but not published until 1532. He has.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A brilliant study... of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe.
Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1983. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. King Edward III's fifty-year reign during the 14th century saw the transformation of England from a fractured land into a cohesive nation. Despite spectacular military victories like Sluys, Crécy, and Poitiers, and the founding of the Order of the Garter, it.....
London: The Folio Society, 2001. Third Printing. Hardcover in a Slipcase. Largely untouched by fame (with the exception of Marco Polo), the lives and activities of these common people offer a unique glimpse of various aspects of the medieval world — peasant life, monastic life, the wool trade, Venetian trade.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Out of a journey through the East comes this revealing and warmly personal book about the problems and hopes of peoples now coming of age. [from the dust jacket] Background Information:Anna.....
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Third Printing. Decorated cloth hardcover in a slipcase. This celebrated book tells the whole enthralling story, recreating such epics as the sieges of Rhodes and Malta and the destruction of the Templars by the Inquisition. An acclaimed publication, it has now been revised and updated.....
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900. First American Edition. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. An account of the history, geography, religion, and political and social situation of the Middle East, and especially of the Arabian Peninsula, from a Christian missionary point of view. Though his missionary efforts saw little progress he.....