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The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
This work presents interesting linguistic features, including otherwise unattested Greek and Latin technical terms and unique pharmacological descriptions. Nicholas Everett provides a window onto the medieval translation of ancient science and medieval conceptions of pharmacy. With a comprehensive scholarly apparatus and a contextual introduction, The Alphabet of Galen is a major resource for understanding the richness and diversity of medical history.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – Illustrated and Annotated
The translation that has been used for this edition is not a translation of any one Chronicle; rather, it is a conflation of readings from many different versions containing primarily the translation of Rev. James Ingram from 1828. The footnotes are all those of Rev. Ingram and are supplied for the sake of completeness. This edition also includes the complete Parker Manuscript. The book is richly illustrated throughout with paintings and engravings.
Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, & Jewish Sources
This primary source material ranges widely across historical chronicles, poetry, and legal and religious sources, and each is accompanied by a brief introduction placing the text in its historical and cultural setting. Arranged chronologically, the documents are also keyed so as to be accessible to readers interested in specific topics such as urban life, the politics of the royal courts, interfaith relations, or women, marriage, and the family.
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike.
Medieval Warrior: Weapons, Technology, And Fighting Techniques, Ad 1000-1500
More than 300 beautiful and comprehensive color illustrations showcase the weapons, equipment, techniques, and tactics of the medieval warrior. All types of soldiers appear in stunning detail—including English longbowmen, Norman knights, Milanese crossbowmen, Saxon huscarls, Swiss pikemen, Hussite handgunners, Mongol horse archers, and Mamluk cavalry.
The Templars: The Secret History Revealed
Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars.
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
An authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages.
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans & Their History
A book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales and is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape, and "a book you will return to time and again"
Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons
A highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history-from the sword to the machine gun.
Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans
Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity throughout the Middle Ages and beyond.
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium & Anglo-Saxon Medicine
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún
A must-have for every Tolkien appreciator and readers of myths and legends alike. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún.
