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  • The White Man's Indian

    Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present

    by Robert F. Berkhofer ...
    Columbus called them "Indians" because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Salvation and the Savage

    An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787–1862

    by Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. ...
    The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity between Anglo-Saxon ideals and the actual treatment of first peoples but in the failure of all, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Day of Reckoning

    Power and Accountability in Medieval France

    by Robert F. Berkhofer III ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources of five of the largest Benedictine monasteries in northern France and Flanders, with comparisons ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Day of Reckoning

    Power and Accountability in Medieval France

    by Robert F. Berkhofer III ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources of five of the largest Benedictine monasteries in northern France and Flanders, with comparisons ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350

    Edited by Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper, Adam J. Kosto ...
    Taking their inspiration from the work of Thomas N. Bisson, to whom the book is dedicated, the contributors to this volume explore the experience of power in medieval Europe: the experience of those who held power, those who helped them wield it, and those who felt its effects. The seventeen essays in the collection, which range geographically from England in the north to Castile in the south, and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Huguenots

    by Geoffrey Treasure ...
    From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora.Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Corruption of Angels

    The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246

    by Mark Gregory Pegg ...
    On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over twelve--were ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    by Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598

    by R. J. Knecht ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    In the second half of the sixteenth century, France was racked by religious civil wars and peace was only restored when Henry of Navarre finally converted to Catholicism, deciding – in his immortal phrase – that 'Paris is worth a mass'.In this lucid introduction to a complex period in French history, Robert Knecht:Explains the evangelical and Lutheran origins of the Huguenot Church in ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul

    Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition

    by Ralph Whitney Mathisen ...
    A study of the collapse of Roman rule in ancient Gaul and the shift to Germanic power.Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear

    Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

    by William Chester Jordan ...
    This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and traditions--such as paying war taxes and expelling the Jews from the kingdom. William Jordan considers ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD