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  • The Geographical Lore Of The Time Of The Crusades

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by John Kirtland Wright ...
    This scholarly study traces how medieval Europeans imagined the world during the Crusades, from ancient Greek and Roman geography through biblical interpretation and early Christian thought to the new learning of the high Middle Ages. It follows the rise of geographical ideas about the earth's shape, the heavens, winds, tides, rivers, mountains, deserts, and the limits of the inhabited world, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • King and Emperor

    A New Life of Charlemagne

    by Janet L. Nelson ...
    A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesA major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day EuropeCharles, King of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a Europe... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Complete Story of Civilization

    Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation

    by Will Durant ...
    The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ; Volume Four: The Age of Faith; Volume Five: The Renaissance; Volume Six: The Reformation; Volume Seven: ... Read more

    $164.99 CAD

  • The Age of Louis XIV

    The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII

    by Will Durant, Ariel Durant ...
    Series series The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Crusade Against the Grail

    The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome

    by Otto Rahn ...
    The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail• Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours• Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial authorCrusade Against the Grail is the daring ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Mercator

    The Man who Mapped the Planet

    by Nicholas Crane ...
    A biography of the genius who mapped the world and for ever changed the face of the planet - by a bestselling author.Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Alexander to Actium

    The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

    by Peter Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Hellenistic Culture and Society
    The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

    by Andrew Dickson White ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel they are letting the rays of the April sun into the great ice barrier which binds together the modern quays and the old granite fortress ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Oriental Religions In Roman Paganism

    by Franz Cumont ...
    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganismby Franz CumontOriginally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • 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 Roman Empire

    Edited by Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew ...
    Series series Religion & Classical Warfare
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus