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  • Bringing Up Beaver

    Two Orphaned Beaver Kits, Their Humans, and Our Journey Back to the Wild.

    by John Aberth ...
    A lively and engaging account of one human’s relationship with a remarkable and charming orphaned beaver kit.On May 10, 2020, an orphaned beaver kit was found in St. Albans, Vermont and handed over to John Aberth, a licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. Over the next two years, John raised the kit, whom he nicknamed "BK," and prepared him for release back into the wild. During that time, John ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Doctoring the Black Death

    Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague

    by John Aberth ...
    The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Contesting the Middle Ages

    Debates that are Changing our Narrative of Medieval History

    by John Aberth ...
    Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the persecution of minorities, sexuality in the Middle Ages, women within medieval society, intellectual and environmental history, the Black Death, and, lastly, the waning of the Middle Ages.The historiography of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • From the Brink of the Apocalypse

    Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages

    by John Aberth ...
    Praise for the first edition:"Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of YorkThe later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have seemed ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Plagues in World History

    by John Aberth ...
    Series series Exploring World History
    Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • A Knight at the Movies

    Medieval History on Film

    by John Aberth ...
    Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, offering estimations ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • An Environmental History of the Middle Ages

    The Crucible of Nature

    by John Aberth ...
    The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly adversarial approach to something more overtly ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Bringing Up Beaver

    Two Orphaned Beaver Kits, Their Humans, and Our Journey Back to the Wild

    by John Aberth ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    A lively and engaging account of one human's relationship with a remarkable and charming orphaned beaver kit.On May 10, 2020, an orphaned beaver kit was found in St. Albans, Vermont and handed over to John Aberth, a licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. Over the next two years, John raised the kit, whom he nicknamed "BK," and prepared him for release back into the wild. During that time, John ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Black Death

    by Robert S. Gottfried ...
    A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Middle Ages

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian kingdoms after c.450-650, to the northern and eastern regions that became increasingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Mortality

    An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    by John Kelly ...
    “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Femina

    A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    by Janina Ramirez ...
    **THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZEA "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must ReadA groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters**The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook