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Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This vivid and and comprehensive account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest lays bare the patterns of everyday life, and increases our.....
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.....
India: Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. (P.) Ltd., 1963. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The book is based on accounts from travelers who visited northern India during the 17th century includes Customs, Rites and Ceremonies (Pre-Nuptial, Marriage, Funeral); Social Etiquettes and Manners; Charity and Feasts; Houses and.....
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.
London: The Folio Society, 2002. Hardcovers in a Slipcase. "Scenes of Medieval Life" explores different aspects of life in the medieval period. Each book in the series focuses on a specific topic, examining social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of daily life during the Middle Ages.Frances (1915–2013) and Joseph (1916–2006).....
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.....
![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=1691081304)
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.....
London: Folio Society, 1973. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. The description of the materials and construction of the tapestry is particularly interesting. This is the 11th-12th century western European equivalent of wallpaper. What a sadness it is that the Bayeux Tapestry is a unique survival. Why do people today spend thousands.....
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].
![Item #015309 Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings [Two Volumes]. Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1803 -...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/015309.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647434252)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Illustrated by Max R. Morton. Very Good Hardcovers. Harold Godwinson (c.1022 - 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings, fighting the Norman invaders.....
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.....