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Medieval Christianity: A New History

8 best books like Medieval Christianity: A New History (Kevin J. Madigan): Notes from Underground, The Apothecary Rose, Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity, Aquinas for Armchair Theologians, The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Notes from Underground
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who...
The Apothecary Rose
AuthorCandace Robb
ISBN0312953607
Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets...

Christmastide, 1363-and, at an abbey in York, two pilgrims die mysteriously dead of an herbal remedy. Suspicious, the Archbishop sends for Owen Archer, a Welshman with the charm of the devil, who's lost one...
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
AuthorIan Stewart
ISBN0465096123
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians

In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each...
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation
AuthorJusto L. González
ISBN0060633158
For a very general introduction to the early history of the Church up until the Protestant Reformation, I would recommend this book. But only as a primary introduction.

Its chief virtues are that it is highly readable (high school reading level) and easy to understand; the chapters are brief...
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
AuthorRobert L. Wilken
ISBN0300118848
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity...
Aquinas for Armchair Theologians
AuthorTimothy Mark Renick
ISBN0664223044
Thomas Aquinas was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Christianity and in western civilization. Yet his theological views are complex and presume acquaintance with technical philosophical language. Now Timothy Renick has produced an attractive and accessible account of Aquinas's...
The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
AuthorJusto L. González
ISBN0060633166
Another excellent survey of Christian history from the Reformation up to the early 21st century. As in his previous volume, Gonzalez is attentive to those voices who have been unrepresented in the Christian narrative, especially women and the Third World. Gonzalez paints a more positive picture...
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
AuthorThomas Asbridge
ISBN0060787287
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this  big, ambitious,...
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