 
A Knight and His Weapons
Everything you wanted to know about spears, lances, axes, maces, hammers, swords, daggers, and even crude firearms. Oakeshott presents the history of each weapon, including how it was made and used in battle.
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Medieval Britain: The Age of Chivalry
Heraldic Crests:
Magnificent depictions of lions, tigers, wreaths, falcons, rosettes, human figures, mythical creatures, much more.
 
Heraldic Crests: A Pictorial Archive of 4,424 Designs for Artists and Craftspeople
Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages:
The birth of the building trades - and the changing society it reflected -- gains an exciting new dimension." ...Learn how the era's ingenious new tools and techniques helped to create Gothic cathedrals and massive fortifications of magnificent castles, also bridges, houses, and city walls.
 
Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages
Equal In Monastic Profession:
Aims to elucidate life as it was lived in the nunneries of northern France...the period from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. Brings to light real people and their actions. . .presented in beautiful prose entertainingly laced with vivid language.
 Equal In Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France
Forgotten English:
A small, entertaining dictionary of words our language has lost. A fascinating social history of centuries past, spanning Anglo-Saxon, English Restoration, and Elizabethan times, among others.
 
Forgotten English
Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine:
At a time when few women could write and most were denied a formal education (12th-century) , Hildegard von Bingen became a legendary healer, visionary, musician, artist, poet, and saint. Her works include twenty-seven symphonic compositions; Scivias, a compilation of her visions; and her two major medical works, Causae et Curae, a medical compendium, and Physica, published here in English in its entirety for the first time.
 
Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine
Medieval Heraldry, Vol. 99:
Introduces the reader to the role of heraldry and to provide examples of how it was used in the 14th and 15th centuries. Format: Paperback
 
Medieval Heraldry, Vol. 99
Design Your Own Coat of Arms:
 
Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry
Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs and stationary or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges and much more.
"The Book of Hours" was the bestseller of the late middle ages." Heavily, often gorgeously, illustrated prayer books commissioned by the wealthy, they got their name because they contain a sequence of 37 prayers to the Mother of God intended to be recited throughout the course of the day. ..the illustrations, still fresh after six centuries, glowing with color and a fervent sense of faith, offer a unique glimpse of another time.
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Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art
 
Gower's "Confessio Amantis": A Critical Anthology
  Monarchs, Murders and Mistresses: A Book of Royal Days
Rare and Out of Print Books
Out-of-print, used, and rare books make great gifts, Find a first edition, signed copy, or hard-to-find book for anyone on your gift list.
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Medieval Celebrations:
How to plan for holidays, weddings, and reenactments with recipes, customs, costumes, decorations, songs, dances and games.
 
Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan Holidays, Weddings, and Feasts with Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games
Written by Sir Winston Churchill. Informative and entertaining...gives a broad overview of English history and the significant events and people.
 
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
 The original articles written by medieval scholars fill a gap in the field's scholarship which has ignored sexuality as a topic. Building on the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault's history of sexuality, the essays consider ignored research work and bring fresh insights to the culture, history, and literature of the middle ages. The writings focus on sexual norms, homosexuality, lesbianism, prostitution, and sexuality in the context of Christian, Judaic, and Islamic religious practices.  Handbook of Medieval Sexuality
 
Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages
 Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Explore the relationship between Christian and masculine identity; children, penance, and sexuality; heroism, castration, and eunuchry; education; the relationship between male and animal bodies; discipline and gender; Chaucer; transvestism and knighthood; drag and blackface; contemporary identity theory; and other scholarly subjects. Hardcover.
  A History of Medieval Spain
A Reader's Catalog Selection of the 40,000+ best books in print. Soundly traditional in its organization, it gives primacy to political events without neglecting institutional, social, and cultural matters.
 Sex in History:
"Thoroughly fascinating." DSNew York Post."Loved it... an intelligent and mature look at the history of sex but captivated my mind and attention through all of the 400 and some odd pages.."
 
Sex in History (Revised)
The City of Light:
 
The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years before Marco Polo
In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China, four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey until 1990, when David Selbourne was shown d'Ancona's account of his travels, a remarkable manuscript that had been hidden from public view for more than seven centuries. Other academics--particularly and significantly, in China--have come to the support of d'Ancona's account.....an unparalleled insight into life in the medieval world.
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica:
The modern reader interested in natural healing will recognize the enormous truth in the theories of this 12th-century physician, which remind us that our cures for illness depend on our natural world and our place in it. One of two major medical treatises by medieval healer Hildegard von Bingen, presented in its entirety for the first time in English during the 900th anniversary of her birth.
 
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
 Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe:
This original and authoritative text reveals how chivalry was part of the problem of violence in medieval Europe, not merely its solution. The ideal was to internalize restraint in knights, but a close reading of chivalric literature shows chivalry also praised heroic violence by knights. This fascinating book lays bare the conflicts and paradoxes surrounding the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe.
 Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe
A Treasury of Royal Scandals:
 
Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
Farquhar publicly washes the dirty laundry of not only European royalty, but also of Roman emperors and popes. This gossipy string of anecdotes is a popularized rather than an authoritative history and perfect for travel reading. Proves that history doesn't have to be boring or dry. A real joy!
 
Knights and Castles
Recommended Age Range: 8 to 12. Perfect for the young historian in your family. What was it like to wear armor? What was the food like in castles? This book explores what life was really like in medieval times.
Scottish history from the middle of the eleventh century to the Reformation.
 Medieval Scotland
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Medieval Woes: 1066-1450 Anno Domini
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