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Author: Robert Bartlett
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780892366422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book also includes biographies of key personalities, from Charlemagne to Wycliffe, timelines, maps, glossary, gazetteer, and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: G. G. Coulton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 1108010539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1938 book by distinguished medievalist G. G. Coulton, comprises fifty-two chapters based on a lifetime of research that cover every aspect of medieval life, from the emergence of feudalism to 'the bursting of the dykes' at the Reformation. The focus is on England, but the European context is also defined.
Author: John M. Thompson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1426205333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500--from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Sumptuously illustrated, it features period works of art, fascinating maps, quotes from medieval figures, close-ups of intriguing artifacts, and rich landscape photographs. For every century, a signature city is spotlighted to represent that era's developments, and time lines connect the many dramatic events that took place in these dark and exciting times.
Author: Ian Mortimer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-10-25
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1439112908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.
Author: Christine Sciacca
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1606060066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand castles and palaces. While many of these edifices survive, many more are lost, and it is within the pages of illuminated manuscripts that we often find the best record of the appearance of these amazing buildings. This volume illustrates the creative ways in which medieval artists represented architecture, offering insight into what these buildings meant for medieval people. Such structures were not just made to be inhabited--they symbolized grandeur, power, and even heaven on earth. Building the Medieval World accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 2 through May 16, 2010. Building the Medieval World is the fourth in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.
Author: Julie Kerr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-05-14
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1441135928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife in the Medieval Cloister makes extensive use of primary sources and quotations from chronicles, letters, customaries and miracle stories, and the experience of medieval monastic life is presented through the monks' own words. Medievalist Julie Kerr provides day to day account of life in the medieval monastery from the Norman conquest to the Dissolution, with a particular focus on the high Middle ages, exploring such questions as: What effect did the ascetic lifestyle have on the monks' physical health and mental well-being? How difficult was it for newcomers to adapt to the rigors of the cloister? Did the monks suffer from anxiety and boredom; what caused them concern and how did they seek comfort? What did it really mean to live the solitary life within a communal environment and how significant were issues of loneliness and isolation? Life in the Medieval Cloister makes an important contribution to our understanding of medieval monastic life by exploring key aspects that have been either inadequately addressed or overlooked by historians, but also offers an up close and personal perspective on a fascinating, but little known, corner of history.
Author: Will Durant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 11051
ISBN-13: 1476779716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: The Age of Reason Begins; Volume Eight: The Age of Louis XIV; Volume Nine: The Age of Voltaire; Volume Ten: Rousseau and Revolution; Volume Eleven: The Age of Napoleon
Author: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Beryl Rowland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-18
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1000680843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1974. The thirty-six essays of this book were written and assembled in hour of an internationally recognised scholar of medieval literature. Written by a diverse range of contributors, the chapters cover not only various studies of aspects of Chaucer’s poetry, but also some other medieval authors and investigations about the period, particularly referencing carols and hymns.
Author: Fiona Macdonald
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Secondary Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780836858969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how kings and rulers in medieval Europe gained control and governed.
