Books about the history of the medieval world between about the Tenth and Sixteenth Centuries C.E., including social, political, and religious subjects.
All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage.G+ rubbed and soiled wrappers, internally clean.
$8 C/B [HST 22]
Cambridge University 1971 softcover, xvi 364pp. Medieval English manorial system, serfdom etc.
An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt.
A study of medieval heresies including the Knights Templars, witches and the witch trials, magic, sorcery and maleficium.
ISBN 0586082352
witchcraft, buning times, mass hysteria, sociology
VG paperback with small nick from spine, remainder striped
$15 C/B
Paladin 1975 first thus paperback, 302pp+ plates.
[#5400 ]
A History of Medieval Europe From Constantine to Saint Louis.
Franks, Saxons, Crusades
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with some foxing to spine.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1966, 421pp.
[#4790 ]
The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the Twelfth century which saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of the Gothic; the emergence of vernacular languages; the revival of Latin classics, poetry, and Roman law; the recovery of Greek Science and much Greek philosophy; the origins of universities, towns, and the sovereign state.
ISBN0674760751
medieval history, europe, dark ages, twelfth century
VG+ softback
$30 C/C
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 437pp.
[#4202 ]
The life of Margery Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) a wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary.
Translated into modern English, this is the earliest surviving autobiography of an English person.
ISBN9780140432510
autobiography, religious, christian, mediaeval, british
VG+ softback
$8 C/B
Penguin Classics 1985, 332pp
[#4072 ]
Montaillou Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324
Social history of a medieval French village.
ISBN 0140054715
europe, european, social history
VG softback
$10 C/B
Penguin 1980, xvii 381pp.
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The standard Victorian era history of Holland, in three volumes
Netherlands, European history, nineteenth century
VG- hardbacks, edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped, feps removed and ink name at head of each title page.
$75 weighs 3.5kg ask for postal quote to your destination.
Routledge's Popular Library issue, 1889 3 large 8vo cloth vols, ix 485+xi 527+ viii 518pp.
[HST29 ]
A rational history of the Knights Templar, the first uniformed standing army in the Western world and pioneers of international banking.
Probably as a means of confiscating their wealth, they were purged and suppressed by Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V in the 14th Century.
ISBN9781842121429
gnosticism, secret society, crusades, medieval history, christian kingdoms
VG softback
$15 C/C
Phoenix Press 2001, 350pp + plates.
[#4320 ]