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  • The Sea in the Middle

    The Mediterranean World, 650–1650

    by Thomas E Burman, Brian A. Catlos, Mark D. Meyerson ...
    The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Texts from the Middle

    Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650

    Edited by Thomas E Burman, Brian A. Catlos, Mark D. Meyerson ...
    Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center of the study of the period from 650 to 1650.Building on the textbook’s unique approach, these sources center on the Mediterranean and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • King Alfonso VIII of Castile

    Government, Family, and War

    by Damian J. Smith, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ0, Joseph F. O'Callaghan1, Teofilo Ruiz2, Miriam Shadis3, James J. Todesca4 ...
    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The Bright Ages

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  • The Ornament of the World

    How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

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    A brilliant and fascinating portrait of medieval Spain explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance.This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an ... Read more

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  • The Lost History of Christianity

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  • God's Crucible

    Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

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    The Case for the Crusades

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  • Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

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    The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin.The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as the Old Man of ... Read more

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