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  • The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France

    Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221–1422

    by Mark Cruse ...
    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia—the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest—their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it.The Mongol influence on French culture is visible in what ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

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  • Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III.The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mongols and the West

    1221-1410

    by Peter Jackson ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This book has been designed to provide a synthesis of previous scholarship on relations between the Mongols and the Catholic world as well as to offer new ... Read more

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  • The First European

    A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    "A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity." ( The Wall Street Journal)The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, ... Read more

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  • The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

    by Dr. Shane Bobrycki ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in early medieval Europe. In The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, Bobrycki shows that although demographic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Vandals, Romans and Berbers

    New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

    Edited by Andrew Merrills ...
    The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume attempts to redress this imbalance through an examination ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

    Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space

    Edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes ...
    Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • John of Brienne

    King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, c.1175–1237

    by Guy Perry ...
    John of Brienne's progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. But how and why did he achieve such heights? This biographical study of aristocratic social and geographical mobility in the 'Age of the Crusades' reassesses John's fascinating life, and explores how ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans

    Context and Consequences

    by Michael Angold ...
    Series series Turning Points
    The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of ... Read more

    $104.42 CAD

  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity

    by Éric Rebillard ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, Jeanine Routier-Pucci ...
    Series Book 59 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Fixers

    Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature

    by Zrinka Stahuljak ...
    A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD