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  • The Black Cross

    A History of the Baltic Crusades

    by Aleksander Pluskowski ...
    A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacyBetween the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea region. Led by Catholic rulers, churchmen, and, most importantly of all, the warrior monks of the Teutonic Order, they sought to expand Christendom through ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies

    Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski ...
    An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioral adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Landscapes of (Re)Conquest

    Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania

    Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras, Michelle Alexander ...
    A fresh historical and archaeological approach to examination of the societies of medieval Iberia.Frontiers were an integral feature of every medieval polity, and their spaces were defined by opposing spheres of influence, contact and connectivity. As these polities expanded and contracted, often as a result of military conquest and territorial annexation, their permeable edges became defi ned by ... Read more

    $41.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals

    European Perspectives

    Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski ...
    The killing and burial of animals in ritualistic contexts is encountered across Europe from Prehistory through to the historical period. This volume presents the state of research across Europe to illustrate how comparable interpretative frameworks are used by archaeologists working with both prehistoric and historical societies. Key questions include: How easy is it to identify ritually killed ... Read more

    $41.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Teutonic Knights

    Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation

    by Aleksander Pluskowski ...
    Series Book 10 - Medieval Lives
    This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and enduring legacy. Aleksander Pluskowski traces the Order’s journey from a field hospital outside the walls of Acre during the Third Crusade to its ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade

    Holy War and Colonisation

    by Aleksander Pluskowski ...
    The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusades against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the resulting society created by the Teutonic Order which endured into the 16th century.It provides an updated synthesis of the material culture of this unique, hybrid society in the south-eastern Baltic region, encompassing the full range of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Origins of the Irish

    by J. P. Mallory ...
    An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective storyAbout eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place?This is the first major attempt to deal with the core issues of how the Irish came into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion

    Edited by Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick, Santiago Riera Mora ...
    The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of ‘environmental’ remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behavior, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mortal Wounds

    The Human Skeleton as Evidence for Conflict in the Past

    by Martin Smith ...
    A biological anthropologist uses the human skeleton to examine the history of violence from the Mesolithic era to the nineteenth century.Human beings have a violent past. Physical hostilities between people are at least as old as humanity and the roots of such behaviour go very deep. Earlier studies have been based on a range of sources including written documents, as well as archaeological ... Read more

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  • Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery

    by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ...
    The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniquesSome 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Life in the Limes

    Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers

    Edited by Rob Collins, Frances McIntosh ...
    Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research ... Read more

    $38.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Celtic World

    Edited by Miranda Green ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The ... Read more

    $67.99 USD