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Ancient history
War on Heresy
By R I Moore Moore R I
Hardback
Published 15-Mar-2012
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The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. This title focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat?
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In the Shadow of the Sword
By Tom Holland
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Hundred Years War
By Jonathan Sumption
Paperback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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When Edward III died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into an unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history. This book presents a tale of contrasting fortunes.
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Black Death
By John Hatcher
Paperback
Published 09-Jul-2009
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How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.
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Tudors
By Peter Ackroyd
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors
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Merchant of Prato
By Iris Origo
Paperback
Published 10-Dec-1992
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A picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages.
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Oxford Book of Parodies
By John Gross
Hardback
Published 13-May-2010
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An unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art, The Oxford Book of Parodies includes parodies from Chaucer to the present day, ranging from imitations and spoofs to lampoons and pastiches, comical, scornful, witty, and subtle. It also takes in advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare and a scientific hoax.
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Fears of Henry IV
By Ian Mortimer
Paperback
Published 03-Jul-2008
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In June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. That night he awoke screaming that traitors were burning his skin. His instinctive belief that he was being poisoned was understandable: he had already survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign.
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Babylon
By Paul Kriwaczek
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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In the sixth millennium BC, settlers on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created the world's first cities. In doing so, they wrote the opening chapter of the history of human civilization as we know it. Paul Kriwaczek tells their extraordinary story.
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Norman Conquest
By Marc Morris
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. It is an invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history.
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