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  • The Penultimate Curiosity

    How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

    de Roger Wagner, Andrew Briggs ...
    When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • Los caminos de la seda

    La historia del encuentro entre Oriente y Occidente

    de Eva Tobalina ...
    Esta es la historia del encuentro entre dos mundos: Oriente y Occidente conectados por una red de caminos conocida como la Ruta de la Seda, por la que circularon la ambición, las riquezas, el poder y, sobre todo, el conocimiento.Todo comenzó con un puñado de objetos. Valiosas posesiones que pasaban de mano en mano y recorrían miles de kilómetros a través de océanos, desiertos y montañas. Su ... Leer más

    $6.79 USD

  • Cuentos de la Alhambra

    de Washington Irving ...
    “Cuentos de la Alhambra” es una original novela escrita de Washington Irving quien nos conduce a través de un interesante recorrido por toda Andalucía hasta llegar a Granada donde, alojado en la Alhambra, conocerá de primera mano toda una serie de historias y leyendas que narra al lector. De la mano de Irving, tenemos la oportunidad de disfrutar de una serie de cuentos e historias donde se ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The War on the West

    How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    de Douglas Murray ...
    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Diez ideas falsas sobre la Edad Media

    de Martin Aurell ...
    Traducido por Juan Vivanco Gefaell ...
    Un libro que echa por tierra diez tópicos sobre la Edad Media y nos descubre una época rica y vibrante.La Edad Media tiene mala fama. ¿Acaso no decimos «medieval» para referirnos a algo oscuro, primitivo o bárbaro? El historiador Martin Aurell empu... ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Balduino IV

    Voces del Medioevo, #6

    de Santiago Machain ...
    Series Libro 6 - Voces del Medioevo
    En plena efervescencia del siglo XII, el Reino de Jerusalén encontró en Balduino IV a un gobernante singular: un rey marcado por la lepra que convirtió el dolor en disciplina, la fragilidad en método y la fe en política de Estado. Este libro recorre su infancia y educación, el ascenso en medio de intrigas, las campañas contra Saladino, la construcción de una maquinaria administrativa sobria, la ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Warrior Women of Islam

    Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature

    de Remke Kruk ...
    Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Christian Invention of Time

    Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

    de Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Creating East and West

    Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks

    de Nancy Bisaha ...
    As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic poetry; and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Courtesy Lost

    Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History

    de Kristina Marie Olson ...
    In Courtesy Lost, Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante’s literary and political influence on Boccaccio. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia, torn between nostalgia for elite families in decline and the need to promote morality and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Life of Charlemagne

    Vita Karoli Magni

    de Einhard ...
    Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in the West since the collapse of the Roman Empire three centuries earlier and ruled absolutely over a vast domain for thirteen years.Einhard’s biography of the Carolingian Empire’s founder ***The Life of Charlemagne: Vita ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché

    A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi

    de Howard Burton ...
    Series series Ideas Roadshow Conversations
    This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this wide-ranging conversation explores her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite its having been a military and cultural powerhouse for ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries

    Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 1

    Edición de Marco Folin, Antonio Musarra ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book focuses on the ethnically composite, heterogeneous, mixed nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage between the late middle ages and early modern times. How did it affect the cohabitation among different people and cultures on the urban scene? How did it mold the shape and image of cities that were crossroads of encounters, but also the arena of conflict and ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Жизнь Пророка согласно аль-Бухари и Муслиму

    Сирах ан-набауия из Корана и хадисов

    de Dar al-Medina (Русский) ...
    Series series Что такое ислам?
    Эта биография была сложной задачей. Написать жизнь Пророка ислама, да благословит его Аллах и приветствует, основываясь исключительно на Коране и двух сборниках, которые мусульмане считают достоверными: "Сахих аль-Бухари" и "Сахих Муслим". Мы считаем, что, несмотря на всю сложность поставленной задачи, по милости Господа нам удалось ее решить. Прослежены основные линии жизни Мухаммада ﷺ. Ничего не ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

    Edición de Jason König, Greg Woolf ...
    There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD

  • Snorri Sturluson and the Edda

    The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval Scandinavia

    de Kevin Wanner ...
    Why would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin J. Wanner brings us a new account of the interests that motivated the production of this text, and resolves the mystery ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Avicenna's Allegory on the Soul

    An Ismaili Interpretation

    Edición de Wilferd Madelung ...
    Series series Ismaili Texts and Translations
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought in the Muslim world. The symbolical Poem on the Soul (Qasidat al-nafs), which portrays all earthly human souls as in temporary exile from heaven, is traditionally attributed to Avicenna, and was received ... Leer más

    $44.59 USD

  • Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the 'Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles'

    de R. Andrew McDonald ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles, the single most important text for the history of the kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.1066-1300. The focus of the Chronicles on the power struggles, plots and intrigues within the ruling dynasties of Man and the Isles offers an impressive ... Leer más

    $69.49 USD

  • Early Islamic Iran

    Edición de Edmund Herzig, Sarah Stewart ...
    Series series The Idea of Iran
    How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Medieval Python

    The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones

    Edición de R. Yeager, T. Takamiya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones. Jones' life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general, and with the work of Chaucer in particular, has significantly influenced contemporary understanding of the period generally, and Middle English letters in particular. Both in film of all types - full-feature ... Leer más

    $53.49 USD

  • L’industrie et le commerce des armes dans les anciennes principautés de Liège, du XIIIe à la fin du XVe siècle

    de Claude Gaier ...
    Series series Bibliothèque de la faculté de philosophie et lettres de l’université de Liège
    L’intérêt pour les armes anciennes naquit du sentiment plus que de la raison. Les princes qui, les premiers, les collectionnèrent, le firent par gloriole et pour s’entourer des souvenirs de leur lignée. Le public, qui eut accès aux galeries d’armures dès le XVIIIe siècle, obéissait à l’attrait romantique pour le pittoresque et le suranné alors même que les progrès techniques commençaient à balayer ... Leer más

    $2.72 USD

  • Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

    Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

    de Katherine L. French ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

  • From Masha' Allah to Kepler

    Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology

    Edición de Charles Burnett, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum ...
    Astrology has recently become a subject of interest to scholars of the highest calibre. However, the tendency has been to look at the social context of astrology, the attacks on astrologers and their craft, and on astrological iconography and symbolism; i.e., largely looking on astrology from the outside. The intention of this book is to do is to look at the subject from the inside: the ideas and ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Pilgrimage of Anastasius: The Autobiography of the First Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites

    de Jerome Gratian, Stephen Watson ...
    Jerome Gracián (1545–1614) was the first provincial of the Discalced Carmelite Order and a close collaborator of Saint Teresa of Ávila, the order's foundress. He brought stability and growth to St. Teresa's movement when it was still in its infancy, particularly among the friars. Praising Gracián in the Book of Her Foundations, Teresa writes: "Had I very much desired to ask His Majesty for a ... Leer más

    $26.95 USD