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  • The Sea in the Middle

    The Mediterranean World, 650–1650

    by Thomas E Burman, Brian A. Catlos, Mark D. Meyerson ...
    The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Texts from the Middle

    Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650

    Edited by Thomas E Burman, Brian A. Catlos, Mark D. Meyerson ...
    Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center of the study of the period from 650 to 1650.Building on the textbook’s unique approach, these sources center on the Mediterranean and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • King Alfonso VIII of Castile

    Government, Family, and War

    by Damian J. Smith, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ0, Joseph F. O'Callaghan1, Teofilo Ruiz2, Miriam Shadis3, James J. Todesca4 ...
    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

    by Thomas E. Burman ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleMost of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others. Christian readings of the Qur'ān have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    by Georges Minois ...
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    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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    by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry ...
    "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    by John Boswell ...
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  • The Ornament of the World

    How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

    by Maria Rosa Menocal ...
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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

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  • The Templars

    The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

    by Dan Jones ...
    **“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the YearA New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger" – Simon Sebag ... Read more

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  • The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam

    by Jonathan Riley-Smith ...
    Series series Bampton Lectures in America
    The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the Church, enlisting generations of laymen and ... Read more

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