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  • The Crusade of 1456

    Texts and Documentation in Translation

    by James D. Mixson ...
    In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. The army’s leader was the twenty-four-year-old Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, "the Conqueror," who sought to take one of the most strategically important fortifications in southeastern Europe. Three weeks later, Mehmed’s army was driven from Belgrade by a Hungarian warlord ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The World of Medieval Monasticism

    Its History and Forms of Life

    by Gert Melville ...
    Translated by James D Mixson ...
    Series Book 263 - Cistercian Studies Series
    This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Sailing from Byzantium

    by Colin Wells ...
    A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Age of Faith

    The Story of Civilization, Volume IV

    by Will Durant ...
    Series series The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization, Volume IV: A history of medieval civilization—Christian, Islamic, and Judaic—from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300. This is the fourth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • The Reformation

    The Story of Civilization, Volume VI

    by Will Durant ...
    Series series The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300–1564. This is the sixth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning series.An engrossing volume on the European Reformation by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will DurantThe sixth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformation chronicles the history of European civilization ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • A History of Byzantium

    by Timothy E. Gregory ...
    Series Book 14 - Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidenceIncludes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliographyIncorporates a new section on web resources ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Byzantium

    The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

    by Judith Herrin ...
    A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possibleByzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium—long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford History of Byzantium

    Edited by Cyril Mango ...
    The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Middle Ages

    A Graphic History

    by Eleanor Janega ...
    A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval historyThe Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style.This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood

    The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade

    by Anthony Kaldellis ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • The Fourth Crusade 1202–04

    The betrayal of Byzantium

    by Dr David Nicolle ...
    Series Book 237 - Campaign
    A fascinating, illustrated account of the betrayal of Byzantium, the clash of Western and Eastern Christian factions and the sacking of Constantinople.The Fourth Crusade was the first, and most famous of the 'diverted' Crusades, which saw the Crusade diverted from its original target, Ayyubi Egypt, to attack the Christian city of Zadar in modern Croatia instead, an attack that was little more than ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD