The Medieval World Complete

5 best books like The Medieval World Complete (Robert Bartlett): The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Golden Ass, Moon Tiger, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages

The Epic of Gilgamesh
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0141026286
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....
The Golden Ass
AuthorApuleius
ISBN0253200369
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
AuthorPenelope Lively
ISBN0802135331
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
AuthorBen Shapiro
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate. In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...
AuthorJeffrey Burton Russell
Evil is an intrinsically fascinating topic. In Lucifer, Jeffrey Burton Russell continues his compelling study of the personification of evil in the figure of the Devil. The previous two volumes in this remarkable tertalogy--The Devil and Satan--trace the history of the concept of the devil comparatively...
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