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  • The Early Medieval World

    From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne [2 volumes]

    by Michael Frassetto ...
    This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the early Middle Ages.The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne addresses the social and material culture of this critical period in the evolution of Western society, covering the social, political, cultural, and religious ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

    From Muhammad to Dante

    by Michael Frassetto ...
    The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century. Michael Frassetto argues that the relationship between these two faiths during the Middle Ages was essential to the cultural and religious developments of Christianity and Islam—even as Christians and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Christian Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Middle Ages

    A Casebook

    by Michael Frassetto ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Casebooks
    Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. The volume, in particular, argues that the essential turning point in relations between ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    A Short History of the Popes

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    “Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti ... Read more

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Stilicho

    The Vandal Who Saved Rome

    by Ian Hughes ...
    A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire.Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    by Norman Baynes, Christian Pfister, Rafael Altamira, L.M. Hartmann ...
    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Read more

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  • Aetius

    Attila's Nemesis

    by Ian Hughes ...
    "The history of Aetius' life and his dealings with Attila . . . [and] of the (western) Roman Empire throughout the pivotal fifth century." — Ancient Warfare MagazineIn AD 453, Attila—with a huge force composed of Huns, allies, and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire—was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying ... Read more

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  • The War On Heresy

    Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

    by Professor R. I. Moore ...
    The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat?In western Europe at AD 1000 heresy had barely been heard of. Yet ... Read more

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  • Civilization of the Middle Ages

    Completely Revised and Expanded Edition, A

    by Norman F. Cantor ...
    "No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader." --BooklistA revised and expanded edition of Norman Cantor's splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages, an essential work of cultural and intellectual history that contains more than 30 percent new material from the original edition.This comprehensive edition illuminates the forces that shaped a thousand ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of Western Culture

    The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization

    by Christopher Dawson ...
    In this new edition of his classic work, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV

    The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

    by F.J. Haverfield, F. Beck, Ernest Barker, Maurice Dumoulin, E.W. Brooks, Alice Gardner, E.C. Butler, Paul Vinogradoff, H.F. Stewart, W.R. Lethaby, J.B. Bury-020edt ...
    This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was as old as the second century. The pressure of the population of the German forests upon the Roman world ... Read more

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