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10 best books like The Evolution of Medieval Thought (David Knowles): The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, The Philosophy of Literary Form, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
AuthorSteven Runciman
ISBN0521437741
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians...
The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
AuthorÉmile Mâle
ISBN0064300323
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
AuthorHelen Waddell
ISBN0486414361
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.

This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
The Philosophy of Literary Form
AuthorKenneth Burke
ISBN0520024834
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows."  Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and...
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
AuthorArthur O. Lovejoy
ISBN0674361539
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
AuthorDavid Abulafia
ISBN0195080408
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily, King of Jerusalem, has, since his death in 1250, enjoyed a reputation as one of the most remarkable monarchs in the history of Europe. His wide cultural tastes, his apparent tolerance of Jews and Muslims, his defiance of the papacy, and...
Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475
AuthorSidney Painter
ISBN0070648433
(Fourth Edition, copywrite 1983)
by Brian Tierney and Sidney Painter

This is the most boring book I ever tried to read. I have plodded through it for almost a year because I wanted to learn the subject matter, but with a ho-hum presentation of the Magna Carta story at about the two-thirds...
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
AuthorSteven E. Ozment
ISBN0300027605
“Ozment’s masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period 1250-1550 clarifies the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. Its appeal derives from its breadth of scholarship and clarity of style.  Ozment reviews the current state of research on late...
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0226076229
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and...
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
AuthorR.W. Southern
ISBN0140137556
The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world,...
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple
AuthorMalcolm Barber
ISBN0521558727
The Order of the Temple was founded in 1119 with the limited aim of protecting pilgrims around Jerusalem. It developed into one of the most powerful corporations in the medieval world which lasted for nearly two centuries until its suppression in 1312. Despite the loss of its central archive in the sixteenth...
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
AuthorCarl Lotus Becker
ISBN0300101503
Based on the Storrs lectures delivered at Yale University
A distinguished American historian challenges the belief that 18th century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl L. Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very...
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
AuthorJoseph R. Strayer
ISBN0691121850
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This...
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
AuthorErnst H. Kantorowicz
ISBN0691017042
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy
AuthorÉtienne Gilson
ISBN0268017409
In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and whether mediaeval philosophy is not its most adequate...
Arab Historians of the Crusades
AuthorFrancesco Gabrieli
ISBN0520052242
The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of the Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happening were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and...
The Penguin History of Medieval Europe
AuthorMaurice Keen
ISBN0140136304
This is a fascinating, three-dimensional picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its great theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew...
Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
AuthorDavid Nirenberg
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
Feudal Society, Volume 1
AuthorMarc Bloch
ISBN0226059782
What I particularly enjoy about Bloch's study is the sense of feudal Europe as dynamic. Institutions are changing while different areas are developing in different ways and influencing each other. Waves of immigrant Magyars, Vikings and Muslims are sweeping, sailing and galloping in from the edges...
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
AuthorMary Carruthers
ISBN0521429730
A dense but interesting study of how medieval people understood memory, thought, and reading. Thinking was an intensely physical, visual, and emotional practice in the Middle Ages. Mary Carruthers uses both the texts preserved in medieval manuscripts and the physicality of the manuscripts themselves...
The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420
AuthorGeorges Duby
ISBN0226167704
Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping survey of the changing mentalities of the Middle Ages as reflected in the art and architecture of the period.

"If Age of the Cathedrals has a fault,...
The Birth of Purgatory
AuthorJacques Le Goff
ISBN0226470830
In The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination....
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