The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
10 best books like The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (Helen Waddell): The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, The Quest for Arthur's Britain, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor, The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy, Edward I, Henry II, Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871
| Author | Émile Mâle |
| ISBN | 0064300323 |
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...
| Author | Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0674361539 |
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...
| Author | John Julius Norwich |
| ISBN | 0743200314 |
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly...
| Author | David Knowles |
| ISBN | 0582494265 |
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.
Preface to First Edition
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| Author | Geoffrey Ashe |
| ISBN | 0897332873 |
The story of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the chief myth of Britain. But is it something more than myth? Solid facts have emerged through the recent work of archaeologists. This book examines the historical foundations of the Arthurian tradition, and then presents the results of excavations...
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
| Author | David Abulafia |
| ISBN | 0195080408 |
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...
| Author | Frances Stonor Saunders |
| ISBN | 0060777303 |
A vibrant history of Italy in the cataclysmic fourteenth century as seen through the life of a brilliant military strategist and bandit lord
At the dawn of the Renaissance, hordes of mercenaries swooped down on the opulent city-states of Italy and commenced to drain them dry. The greatest...
| Author | Michael Prestwich |
| ISBN | 0300071574 |
Edward I—one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages—pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s but became involved in a bitter...
| Author | Wilfred Lewis Warren |
| ISBN | 0520034945 |
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists,...
| Author | Peter Hunter Blair |
| ISBN | 0393003612 |
By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair...
The Plantagenet Chronicles
| Author | Elizabeth Hallam |
| ISBN | 1555840183 |
From the Introduction: The foundations of Plantagenet success were laid by a line of obscure castellans in the Loire Valley who, in the tenth century, rose to become counts of Anjou.
Opening: Part1: ORIGINS OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY: The fortunes of the house of Anjou were founded on the prowess...
| Author | Ernst Robert Curtius |
| ISBN | 0691018995 |
In this "magnificant book" (T.S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto...
| Author | Norman Cohn |
| ISBN | 0195004566 |
ISIS AND THE TALIBAN – JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
This book is a brilliant account of the really crazy cults which sprang...
The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
| Author | Georges Duby |
| ISBN | 0226167682 |
This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand...
| Author | Eileen Power |
| ISBN | 0486414353 |
In this classic of social history, noted medieval scholar Eileen Power recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived during the Middle Ages. Drawing upon account books, diaries, letters, records, wills, and other authentic historical documents, she brings to vivid life Bodo, a Frankish peasant...
| Author | Robert Steven Gottfried |
| ISBN | 0029123704 |
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351.
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching...
Arab Historians of the Crusades
| Author | Francesco Gabrieli |
| ISBN | 0520052242 |
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...
| Author | Maurice Keen |
| ISBN | 0140136304 |
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...
| Author | Henri Pirenne |
| ISBN | 0415377935 |
This is one of the most boring and beautifully soporific pieces I've come across. Ever. Only my interest in the subject matter kept it from getting the lowest rating.
I have been interested in Medieval Europe since reading Roselynde by Roberta Gellis over 35 years ago, and find historical fiction...
| Author | Zoé Oldenbourg |
| ISBN | 1842122231 |
It was a great adventure, motivated by more than simply religion or pure aggression: the Crusades resulted from an emotional climate that led people from all walks of life to leave their homes and follow the unattainable ideal of a heavenly Jerusalem here on Earth. A prize-winning author paints a portrait...
Medieval Technology and Social Change
| Author | Lynn Townsend White Jr. |
| ISBN | 0195002660 |
In Medieval Technology and Social Change, Lynn White considers the effects of technological innovation on the societies of medieval Europe: the slow collapse of feudalism with the development of machines and tools that introduced factories in place of cottage industries, and the development of...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521639905 |
The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements...
