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  • Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe’s major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city that traces its transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine

    A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend**, a massive collection of stories about the saints.** Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints' lives. One indication of its popularity is the fact that so many manuscript copies of the work have survived—more than one thousand ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Speaking of Slavery

    Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery" demonstrate the difficulty of escaping the legacy of a shameful past.For Epstein, language is ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Purity Lost

    Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    Series Book 124 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean—from the Black Sea to Egypt—during the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people consistently defied, overlooked, or transcended restrictions designed to preserve racial and cultural purity in order to establish relationships with those ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Medieval Discovery of Nature

    by Steven A. Epstein ...
    This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies shaped medieval European ideas about the natural order and what ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

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  • Before the Normans

    Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

    by Barbara M. Kreutz ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

    by Edward L. Goldberg ...
    In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Bright Ages

    A New History of Medieval Europe

    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

    $6.99 USD

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  • Machiavelli

    A Biography

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    A “suberb biography" (USA TODAY) of Italian philosopher and playwright Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince, whose writings have outraged and inspired generations of readers.Niccolò Machiavelli is the most infamous and influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and ... Read more

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  • The Prince

    by Niccol� Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Middle Ages, Sixth Edition

    by Barbara Rosenwein ...
    In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China and from Sweden to West Africa. Yet the book never loses sight of the main contours of the period (c.300 to c.1500) or of the fate of the heirs of the Roman Empire. Its lively and informative narrative covers the major events, political and religious ... Read more

    $50.39 USD