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Varia eBook Series

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  • Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era

    Edited by Charles Burnett, Baudouin Van Den Abeele ...
    Series series Varia
    Falconry has been the pursuit of kings, emperors, emirs, khans, merchants and travellers for over 2000 years. It has provided subjects for literature and art, and been discussed in works of zoology, medicine, and law. The papers in this volume originated in a conference held at New York University at Abu Dhabi, and discuss issues on medieval falconry around the Mediterranean. This includes ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

    by Benjamin B. Olshin ...
    What's the truth behind the travels of Marco Polo? "A fascinating tale about maps, history and exploration."— Times Literary Supplement (UK)In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo's writings would go on to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Arabic Letters

    Islam and the European Enlightenment

    by Alexander Bevilacqua ...
    A Longman–History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Deeply thoughtful…A delight.”—The Economist“[A] tour de force…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.”—New RepublicIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pion... ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Map, 1300–1492

    The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation

    by Evelyn Edson ...
    A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus's journey.In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and ... Read more

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  • The Troubadours

    by Linda M. Paterson ...
    Series Book 12 - Medieval Lives
    Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for their brilliant, innovative use of words and music, and the emotional power of their compositions. The troubadours’ songs explored new ideas of love ... Read more

    $26.49 CAD

  • Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

    Study and Transcription of the Long Legends

    by Chet Van Duzer ...
    This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented ... Read more

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  • Idols in the East

    European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450

    by Suzanne Conklin Akbari ...
    Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Nevertheless

    Machiavelli, Pascal

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Series series Verso World History Series
    From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction?In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought

    by John Block Friedman ...
    Beyond the boundaries of the known Christian world during the Middle Ages, there were alien cultures that intrigued, puzzled, and sometimes frightened the people of Europe. The reports of travelers in Africa and Asia revealed that "monstrous" races of men lived there, whose appearance and customs were quite different from the European norm. This book examines the impact of these races upon Western ... Read more

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  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Edited by Paul Maurice Clogan ...
    Series Book 35 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $159.79 CAD