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History / Medieval and Renaissance





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               The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe
               Aston, Margaret

W.W. Norton 1979                                      ISBN  0393950972
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"The theme of this absorbing study of the fifteenth century is the emergence of Europe as an entity...The great events of the century were the plague, the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, the invention of the printing-press, the exploration of the world and the revival of classical studies." Well illustrated.
CONSTANTINOPLE,PRINTING PRESS,EUROPEAN HISTORY                       Book# 4049 		US$7.50

       
               The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to MIchelangelo
               Brotton, Jerry

Oxford University Press First Edition 2002                            ISBN  0192802682
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Renaissance Bizaar tells the story of the intense exchange of ideas, objects, and skills that shaped the European Renaissance.
EUROPEAN HISTORY,INTELLECTUAL HISTORY,HISTORY OF IDEAS,WORLD TRADE,SILK ROAD,CULTURAL HISTORY                                                            Book# 6752 		US$14.00


              The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk
              Cummins, John
 Castle 2003   ISBN: 0783815929
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Richly illustrated from a variety of sources, The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk shows us a pageant
 of Medieval and Renaissance life lived in its grandest, most flamboyant, most allusive manner.                     
 MIDDLE AGES,FALCONS,FALCONRY,HAWKING,ROYALTY       Book #7709		  
US$15.00
    


               The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411 - 1785
               Eisenbichler, Konrad

University of Toronto Press First Edition 1998                         ISBN  0802043291
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible for us today...Konrad Eisenbichler brings to light the daily life and history of one such organization from its founding in 1411 to its final suppression in 1785.
YOUTH CONFRATERNITIES,FLORENCE,ITALY,CHURCH HISTORY,
SOCIAL HISTORY                                                                                                  Book# 6709, 6789 		US$27.50


               Mary, Queen of Scots (Illustrated Abridged Edition)
               Fraser, Antonia

Delacort First U.S.A. Abridged Edition 1978                           ISBN   0440052610
Near Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. A trace of very faint edge spotting and slight wear of binding - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several chips and closed tears; now held in a clear protective cover.
A superbly illustrated condensed edition of the highly acclaimed and immensely successful biography by Antonia Fraser.
ENGLISH HISTORY,BRITISH ROYALTY,HENRY VIII,ELIZABETH I          Book# 5262 		US$15.00


               The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince
               Hollingsworth, Mary
 Overlook 2005   ISBN: 1585676802
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Through his own letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in the basement of an archive in the northern Italian town of Modena,
 Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of a real-life Renaissance cardinal and
 how he achieved his ambition to acquire the coveted cardinal’s hat - a road to power and wealth that had little to do with piety.
 Illustrated.                     
 BIOGRAPHY,BORGIAS,ITALY,ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,CATHOLIC CLERGY,CATHOLIC HIERARCHY       Book #7626		  
US$12.50
     


               The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince
               Hollingsworth, Mary
 Overlook 2006   ISBN: 1585678031
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 Through his own letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in the basement of an archive in the
 northern Italian town of Modena, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and
 undeniably titillating tale of a real-life Renaissance cardinal and how he achieved his ambition
 to acquire the coveted cardinal’s hat - a road to power and wealth that had little to do with piety.
 Illustrated.                     
 BIOGRAPHY,BORGIAS,ITALY,ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,CATHOLIC CLERGY,
 CATHOLIC HIERARCHY       Book #7512		  
US$10.00
    
           
       
               The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
               Holmes, George (edit.)

Oxford University Press Book Club Edition 1988                        ISBN  0198200730
Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Decorated endpapers. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge/corner wear and scuffing; now held in a clear protective cover.
This richly illustrated book tells the story of Europe and the Mediterranean over a thousand years which saw the creation of Western civilization.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION,WESTERN CULTURE,WORLD HISTORY,MIDDLE AGES                                                                                                                                                      Book# 4352 		US$10.50


               The Cathers
               Martin, Sean
 Chartwell First Edition 2006   ISBN: 0785821716
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The story of the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages.                     
 HERESY,HERETICS,ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,CHURCH HISTORY,MIDDLE AGES,
 CHURCH DOCTRINE,LANGUEDOC       Book #7519		  
US$12.00
     


               Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
               O’Shea, Stephan
 Profile First Edition 2006   ISBN: 186197521X
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The sea of faith is the Mediterranean in the millenium that we, in the west, call the Middle Ages. In that long and misunderstood era,
 the lands round what the Romans knews as ‘mare nostrum - our sea’ witnessed an unceasing struggle between Christianity and Islam...
 Illustrated.                     
 MIDDLE AGES,MEDITERRANEAN,RELIGION,CHRISTIANITY,ISLAM       Book #7613,7614		  
US$16.00
     

           
               Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Smallest Man
               Page, Nick
 St. Martin’s First U.S. Edition 2002   ISBN: 0312291612
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 The first complete biography of the seventeeth century’s Jeffrey Hudson, “The smallest man in England”.                     
 BIOGRAPHY,BRITISH HISTORY,DWARFS       Book #7328		  
US$12.00
     

         
               Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age: Simon Forman the Astologer
               Rowse, A. L.

Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition 1974                            ISBN  0684140519
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear and scuffing; now in a clear protective cover.
Simon Forman's name has been known since his own time, but until now his case books - which give perhaps the most intimate close-up of Elizabethan social life, particularly its sex life, that we possess - had never been explored. In Simon Forman, A. L. Rowse discovers an Elizabethan diarist more revealing even than Pepys or Boswell. Illustrated.
ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND,DIARISTS,ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH                                                                                                                                                                            Book# 5283 		US$18.75

           
               The Six Wives of Henry VIII
               Weir, Alison

Grove 1992                                       ISBN  0802136834
Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
“Henry VIII is perhaps England’s most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to six different women, and in this richly detailed and meticulously researched history, these remarkable, often misunderstood queens come to life once again...” Illustrated.
BRITISH HISTORY,SIXTEENTH CENTURY,BRITISH ROYALTY,TUDORS, KATHERINE OF ARAGON,ANNE BOLEYN,JANE SEYMOUR                          Book# 6878 		US$12.00