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By: Tim Parks
ISBN: 9781861977571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2006
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Their name is a byword for wealth and power but before their renown as art patrons and princes, the Medici built their fortune on banking. Tim Parks tells the fascinating, frequently bloody, story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank
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By: Bernard Lowry
ISBN: 9781784422141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fully illustrated guide to and history of the castles of England and Wales in the late medieval period focusing on their roles in military and social history.
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By: John M. Thompson
ISBN: 9781426205330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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A lyrical adventure that sweeps us through time and across Europe and the Middle East, charting the lands and events of the period known as the Middle Ages. It illuminates the key events of every century, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire in A D 476 and moving forward to A D 1500 - the beginning of the age of discovery.
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By: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
ISBN: 9780140137002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.
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By: Richard Fletcher
ISBN: 9781842126059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2001
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish history
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By: Dr Michael Livingston
ISBN: 9781472849380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9780753826119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.
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By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781781858837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A vivid, in-the-round portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta.
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By: Carl Watkins
ISBN: 9780141989877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Morris
ISBN: 9781842124772
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2001
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The classic, bestselling work on the Arthurian era and its fundamental role in the birth of Britain today.
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By: Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9780571200023
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 1999
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Eight centuries ago was not part of France. The principality on the Mediterranean, ruled by the house of Toulouse, seemed far apart from the world of the feudal north. It was here that a heresy of eastern origin challenged the orthodoxy of Catholicism.
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By: Anna Komnene
ISBN: 9780140455274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor. This book provides a view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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By: Eric John
ISBN: 9780140143959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1991
UK Publication Date: 28th March 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins.
(Hardback)
By: Charles Freeman
ISBN: 9781789545623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed the fall of the Roman empire in the West.
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By: John Hatcher
ISBN: 9780753823071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.
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By: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9781849019941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Warlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian Renaissance
By: James Francis LePree Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781440851469
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780375759260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Translated by SGC Middlemore and with an introduction by Peter Gay, this work is a definitive history of the Italian Renaissance.
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By: John Matthews
ISBN: 9781620555996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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A comprehensive examination of the historical and mythological evidence for every major theory about King Arthur
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By: Leonie Frieda
ISBN: 9780753828441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.
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By: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780099477761
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.
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By: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9780563522744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. By skilful use of the Domesday record historian Michael Wood examines Norman society and the Anglo-Saxon, Roman, and even the Iron Age cultures that preceded it.
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By: Peter Frankopan
ISBN: 9780099555032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
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By: Jonathan Phillips
ISBN: 9781844130801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.
