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  • Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath

    by Michael D. Bailey ...
    Series series Magic in History Sourcebooks
    While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages.The idea that ... Read more

    15,47 €

  • Vlad the Impaler: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    The character Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure upon whom the character is based? Is there really a Dracula? Many scholars argue that Vlad III ... Read more

    Free

  • Vikings

    by History Nerds ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of the Vikings
    Discover the fascinating world of the Vikings, the legendary Norse seafarers who transformed the history of Europe during the Viking Age. This engaging history book explores the daring voyages, epic battles, and rich culture of the Scandinavian warriors who sailed across the seas from the 8th to the 11th century.From their homeland in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, Viking explorers ventured across ... Read more

    Free

  • L'uomo medievale

    Introduzione

    by Jacques Le Goff ...
    "L'uomo e gli uomini, gli uomini nella società dell'Occidente cristiano, nelle loro principali funzioni (ossia nei tratti essenziali, ma anche nella concretezza del loro status sociale, del loro mestiere, della loro professione), al tempo di un dittico medievale che nella prima faccia mostra il prodigioso sviluppo della Cristianità fra l'anno Mille e il secolo XIII, mentre la seconda rappresenta ... Read more

    Free

  • A Bond Undone

    Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 2

    by Jin Yong ...
    Translated by Gigi Chang ...
    Series series Legends of the Condor Heroes
    THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick Frisch, New Yorker"Like every fairy tale you're ever loved, imbued with jokes and epic grandeur. ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • A Hero Born

    the bestselling Chinese fantasy phenomenon

    by Jin Yong ...
    Translated by Anna Holmwood ...
    Series series Legends of the Condor Heroes
    ****NOW A RECORD-BREAKING FILM STARRING THE UNTAMED'S XIAO ZHAN****THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD..ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughl... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • I monaci

    by Giovanni Miccoli ...
    Monaci e monasteri hanno cessato da tempo di far parte della comune esperienza degli abitanti d'Europa. Non hanno cessato di esistere ma non figurano più tra gli incontri ordinari e ricorrenti del suo paesaggio storico. Solo ne restano qua e là le imponenti vestigia: mascherate nelle città, dove le vecchie chiese abbaziali sono state occupate e deformate da altri officianti e gli immensi conventi ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Η ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗ ΤΩΝ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΩΝ

    by EMMANOUIL N. KARAKOSTAS ...
    Η μελέτη πραγματεύεται την καταγωγή των Βυζαντινών Αυτοκρατόρων, βασισμένη σε ιστορικές πηγές καθώς και βιβλιογραφία από νεώτερους ιστορικούς, κυρίως του 20ου αιώνα. Απαρτίζεται από επτά κεφάλαια, στα οποία διακρίνονται ανά ομάδες οι Αυτοκράτορες και τίθεται προς έρευνα η καταγωγή τους. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο πραγματεύεται τους Αυτοκράτορες που κυβέρνησαν από τον Ρωμανό Γ’ Αργυρό (1028) έως το τέλος ... Read more

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  • The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century

    by I.F.C. Hecker ...
    The black death is thought to have started in China, and travelled along the Silk Road to reach Crimea by 1346. From there, it was probably carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 3060 percent of Europe's population,reducing the world's ... Read more

    0,90 €

  • The Crusades: From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The CrusadesMuch has been written and much has been omitted when it comes to the Crusades; especially in modern parlance. Many talking heads in recent times have conjured up the specter of the Crusades as if it should be a source of great shame and disgust for Western Civilization. And with even President Obama drawing odd parallels in light of the beheadings of ISIS; many are wondering once again ... Read more

    Free

  • Robert the Bruce

    Hero of Scotland

    by History Nerds ...
    Series series Celtic Heroes and Legends
    Discover the extraordinary life of Robert the Bruce, the warrior-king who led Scotland to freedom and became one of the greatest heroes in Scottish history.This compelling historical biography explores the dramatic rise of Robert the Bruce during the turbulent Wars of Scottish Independence. From political struggle and betrayal to battlefield triumph, follow the remarkable journey of the man who ... Read more

    Free

  • Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

    by Patricia Skinner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license.This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict ... Read more

    Free

  • 1453

    The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

    by Roger Crowley ...
    A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • A People without a Past

    Between Three Plagues Volume 2

    by Jaan Kross ...
    The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerThe year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the German town of Stetten, he has assumed the role as pastor of Tallinn's Holy Ghost Church. Moreover, he is betrothed to a maiden of the town - much to the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Devil’s Historians

    How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past

    by Amy Kaufman, Paul Sturtevant ...
    Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for “medieval times” behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us how the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every ... Read more

    13,88 €

  • I miti di fondazione

    by Eva Cantarella ...
    A proposito della nascita di Milano, numerose fonti letterarie raccontano che nel VI secolo a.C. Ambigato, re dei Celti, mandò suo nipote Belloveso al di qua delle Alpi in cerca di nuove terre, e che questi, arrivando nella Pianura Padana in un luogo non lontano dal Ticino, vi fondò una città chiamata Medhelan. Il sito gli venne indicato da una scrofa semilanuta, il cui arrivo era stato predetto ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • The Chronographia

    by Michael Psellus ...
    A history of the Byzantine emperors during the century leading up to Psellos' own time. It covers the reigns of fourteen emperors and empresses, beginning with the almost 50-year-long reign of Basil II, the "Bulgar-Slayer" (976–1025), and ending some time during the reign of Michael VII Doukas (1071–1078). ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les Procès de Jeanne d'Arc

    by Andrée Duby, Georges Duby ...
    De la condamnation de 1431 à la réhabilitation de 1456, les deux procès de Jeanne d'Arc racontent l'hitoire sous la légende. Ils disent les exigences et la prudence des rois, le lourd juridisme des clercs retranchés derrière les règles de la procédure, l'inquiétude d'une Église de l'ordre face aux élans, aux espoirs et aux révoltes de la religiosité populaire. En composant un dossier qui sera ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Donne madonne mercanti & cavalieri. Sei storie medievali

    by Alessandro Barbero ...
    Fra' Salimbene da Parma, il francescano che ha conosciuto papi e imperatori, vescovi e predicatori, e su ognuno ha da raccontare aneddoti, maldicenze e pettegolezzi; Dino Compagni, il mercante di Firenze che ha vissuto in prima persona i sussulti politici d'un comune lacerato dai conflitti al tempo di Dante; Jean de Joinville, il nobile cavaliere che ha accompagnato Luigi il Santo alla crociata, ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • A Distant Mirror

    The Calamitous 14th Century

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August*Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street JournalThe fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world ... Read more

    5,93 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History

    Edited by Karl F. Friday ...
    Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader explorations of social structures, and a re-examination of many key assumptions. As a result, the picture of the early Japanese past now ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • The Fifth Century

    by Edward Freeman ...
    The movements within and without the Empire which, in the course of a few years at the beginning of the fifth century, altogether changed the face of Western Europe have never, as far as I know, been told in our own tongue, perhaps not in any other tongue, as a connected tale. The facts are recorded by Gibbon with his usual accuracy, clearness, and careful reference to authorities; but they are ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La messagère

    Les chevaux de la mer Tome 3

    by Jocelyne Godard ...
    Series Book 3 - Les chevaux de la mer
    Apprenant que son cousin, le duc Harold, l’a trahi en se faisant sacrer roi d’Angleterre, le duc de Normandie, justice en tête, lui déclare la guerre. La longue préparation du départ commence. Il faut exercer au combat des milliers de chevaux et construire autant de bateaux pour les recevoir et traverser la Manche. Malgré elle, Bérengère est enrôlée parmi les combattants. Ne lésinant pas sur ses ... Read more

    7,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Knight in History

    by Frances Gies ...
    Series series Medieval Life
    A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight“A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination.” —Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights ... Read more

    8,79 €