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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the Nordic warriors and explorers who plundered and traded their way across Europe, and discusses how their conquests helped spread and enhance accomplishments in the arts, culture, and government.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 307 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word "medieval" conjures images of the "Dark Ages"--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The...
5) The vikings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 599 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition...
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Describes the life and times of the era known as the Middle Ages. The reader's choices reveal the historical details of life as a knight in the 1100s, life in a royal castle in the 1200s, and life during the Black Plague in the 1300s"--Provided by publisher.
10) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
11) The Middle Ages
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Mariner Books ed.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance-a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the increasing power of the Catholic Church, and the advent...
Author
Series
Tudor translations volume no. 27-32
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
6 volumes ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (741 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (123 pages ; 20 cm).
Language
English
Description
This course of twenty-four lectures examines the period know as the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). The first eight lectures cover medieval society. Lectures nine through sixteen examine the intellectual and religious history of Europe during this period. The final eight lectures cover the major political developments and events. Lecturer is Philip Daileader from College of William and Mary.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for silence deepened even as he faced his obligation to speak...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (118 pages ; 20 cm).
Language
English
Description
Philip Daileader from the College of William and Mary traces major developments, leaders, and accomplishments in the history of Europe from about 300 to 1000 A.D.
19) The Middle Ages
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 580 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with the rise of the Franks, Fried uses individuals to introduce key themes, bringing to life those who have too often been reduced to abstractions of the medieval "monk" or "knight." Milestones encountered in this thousand-year traversal include Europe's political, cultural, and religious renovation under Charlemagne; the Holy Roman Empire under Charles IV, whose court in Prague was patron to crowning cultural achievements; and the series...