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  • The Consumption of Justice

    Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

    by Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Legal Plunder

    Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

    by Daniel Lord Smail ...
    As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one’s station in life in a society accustomed to reading visible signs of rank. In a world without banking, household goods became valuable commodities that often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers and resellers ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Magdalena Coline

    A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe

    by Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named Peire Huguet. Daniel Lord Smail tells the extraordinary story of Magdalena Coline, a woman who dared to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Deep History

    The Architecture of Past and Present

    by Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Legal Plunder

    Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

    by Daniel Lord Smail ...
    As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one’s station in life in a society accustomed to reading visible signs of rank. In a world without banking, household goods became valuable commodities that often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers and resellers ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Life in a Medieval City

    by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ...
    Series Book 1 - Medieval Life
    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Rennes le Chateau

    by Mark Naples ...
    It is the hiding place of the Holy Grail, or a great secret that will rock the Church. It is a place of hidden treasure and dark knowledge. It is the place where Jesus is buried... These are just some of the many theories now current about the village where a Victorian priest became strangely - and massively - rich, and where he left clues to a great mystery in the very fabric of his church. What ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271–855

    by Hendrik W. Dey ...
    This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Reckoning

    Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

    by Jacob Soll ...
    A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empiresWhether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Last Wills and Testaments: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Samuel Kline Cohn ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    by David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Cardinal's Hat

    Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince

    by Mary Hollingsworth ...
    "A riveting portrait of the day-to-day life of a wealthy, worldly Renaissance prince" as he pursues power and influence in the Catholic church ( USA Today).The second son of Alfonso d'Este and Lucretia Borgia, the Duke and Duchess of Ferrara, Ippolito d'Este was made the archbishop of Milan at the age of nine. But from the time of his father's death in 1534, he set his ambitions on acquiring the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus