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  • The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Denis Menjot, Mathieu Caesar, Florent Garnier, Pere Verdés Pijuan ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy

    Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil

    by Mathieu Caesar ...
    Series series Renaissance History, Art and Culture
    Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from the North Sea to the Mediterranean along the border between France and the Empire. In Geneva, and partially in other towns of Piedmont and the Pays de Vaud, this instability fuelled urban ... Read more

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

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  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

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  • Imperial Spain 1469-1716

    by J. H Elliott ...
    The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expulsion of the Moslems and the discovery of America, Spain took on a seemingly unstoppable dynamism that made it into the world's first global power. This amazing success however ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417

    Popes, Institutions, and Society

    by Joëlle Rollo-Koster ...
    With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joëlle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history, she argues that we should think more positively about the Avignon papacy, with its effective ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • To Kidnap a Pope

    Napoleon and Pius VII

    by Ambrogio A. Caiani ...
    A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state"In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a historical read which is both original and enjoyable."—Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette"Both an exciting narrative and a fine work of ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

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  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    by Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Power

    Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ...
    In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent—is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Poor and the Perfect

    The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310

    by Neslihan Şenocak ...
    One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the Order of Friars Minor could claim hundreds of permanent ... Read more

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  • Conclave

    The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election

    by John L. Allen Jr. ...
    A captivating insider’s guide to the politics and personalities that will have a tremendous impact on one of the world’s most secretive and important events–the election of a pope.The next time a conclave unfolds in Rome, some 6,000 journalists are expected to descend on the Eternal City to cover the death of John Paul II and report on the election of his successor. The man in white who emerges ... Read more

    $5.99 USD