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The Story of the Middle Ages - Samuel B. Harding
The Story of the Middle Ages - Samuel B. Harding
- Author: Samuel B. Harding
- Genre: Reference / Middle Ages/Middle History
Intended for a youthful audience, The Story of the Middle Ages, published in 1906, tells the history of the Middle Ages in simple and entertaining fashion, and helps to explain the influence of the Middle Ages on modern times. Topics covered include...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 03 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 03 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; book 3 begins with the fortune of the family of Brian Boru and continues through the rise of...
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 6: Renaissance and Reformation - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 6: Renaissance and Reformation - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
Volume 6 blends literature, exploration, science, and the start of Protestantism with discussions of Chaucer, Dante, Luther and others. - Summary by KHand...
King Alfred of England - Jacob Abbott
King Alfred of England - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions and ushered in an era of learning and progress for the British Isles. Summary by Ryan Cherrick....
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3 - Henry Charles Lea
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3 - Henry Charles Lea
- Author: Henry Charles Lea
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
The 3rd volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume covers torture practices; the trial process; punishments; Jews, Moriscos, and Protestants; and censorship. - Summary by Sienna...
Europe In The Middle Ages - Ierne Lifford Plunket
Europe In The Middle Ages - Ierne Lifford Plunket
- Author: Ierne Lifford Plunket
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Though sometimes called the "Dark Ages", the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket masterfully shows the colorfullness and diversity of the Middle Ages. Heroes like Charlemagne, Richard the Lion Hearted,...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Middle Ages/Middle History
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
The Life of Alfred the Great - Bishop of Sherbourne ASSER
The Life of Alfred the Great - Bishop of Sherbourne ASSER
- Author: Bishop of Sherbourne ASSER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an unknown hand. (Summary by Douglas B....
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 5: The Middle Ages - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 5: The Middle Ages - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
Volume 5 continues the commentary on world history begun in the first four volumes. This volume looks at some of the main religious figures of the Middle Ages, as well as social issues like the Crusades and the feudal system. - Summary by KHand...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1 - Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the appointment to write a history of Florence....
The Byzantine Empire - Edward FOORD
The Byzantine Empire - Edward FOORD
- Author: Edward FOORD
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it eventually fell. While sometimes...
Elizabethan Demonology - Thomas Alfred SPALDING
Elizabethan Demonology - Thomas Alfred SPALDING
- Author: Thomas Alfred SPALDING
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Middle Ages/Middle History / Medieval
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference...
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1 - Henry Charles Lea
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1 - Henry Charles Lea
- Author: Henry Charles Lea
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the state. Also included are appendices listing Tribunals, Inquisitors-General, and Spanish coinage. (Summary by Ruth...
A Short Description of Torre Abbey - Hugh Robert WATKIN
A Short Description of Torre Abbey - Hugh Robert WATKIN
- Author: Hugh Robert WATKIN
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the time of Henry VIII, a significant part of the buildings of Torre Abbey, particularly the church area, lay in ruins. Then, during the 17th century and subsequently, surviving parts of the abbey were...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Magna Carta Commemoration Essays - Various
Magna Carta Commemoration Essays - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Law / Middle Ages/Middle History
On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 2015 is the 800th anniversary of this charter, which led eventually to the rule of constitutional law in...
Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century - Edwin BENSON
Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century - Edwin BENSON
- Author: Edwin BENSON
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry and punishment. The author has an easy, rhythmic style which leaves the reader wanting to find out...
History of the Norwegian People, Volume 1 - Knut GJERSET
History of the Norwegian People, Volume 1 - Knut GJERSET
- Author: Knut GJERSET
- Genre: Antiquity / Middle Ages/Middle History
A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. The author, Knut Gjerset, was born in Western Norway in 1865 and immigrated to Chippewa County, Minnesota, in the US with his parents in 1871 and his brother Oluf...
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
- Author: Thomas HODGKIN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he "was a man of commanding presence, more...
The Vikings - Allen MAWER
The Vikings - Allen MAWER
- Author: Allen MAWER
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes the following chapters: I.Causes...
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
“THE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right proportions. The...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 04 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 04 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 4 begins with the first Norman invasion of the island and continues to the end of the...
The Moors in Spain - Stanley LANE-POOLE
The Moors in Spain - Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Author: Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long catalogue of kingdoms subdued by the Moslems. For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain...
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: General / Middle Ages/Middle History / Early Modern
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume covers the history of Spain from before the Moorish conquest to the loss of overseas territories at the end of the...
A Short History of Scotland - Andrew Lang
A Short History of Scotland - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Antiquity / Middle Ages/Middle History
A Short History of Scotland is a consise introduction to the history of Scotland from Roman times to the last Jacobite rebellion, written by the author of a much longer Scottish history. (Summary by Sibella Denton.)...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 2 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 2 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 02 - Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier - Stephen Leacock
Chronicles of Canada Volume 02 - Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Jacques Cartier grew up as a sailor, married well and became an agent of exploration for King Francis I of France. In April, 1534, he sailed for the New World. Before sailing, his men took an oath that they would “behave themselves truly and...
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). He joined Richard, Duke of York in opposing the ineffectual and often incapacitated Lancastrian...
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period - Jean de la LACROIX
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period - Jean de la LACROIX
- Author: Jean de la LACROIX
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and rights, justice, commerce, finance,...
A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton
A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between civilization and barbarism. So it...
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with the Saga of Erik the Red. The two accounts describe many of the same events leading to Norse...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 06 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 06 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 6 subtitled the Native, the Naturalized, and “The English Interest”, covers the 14th and...
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
- Author: no Tsurayuki KI
- Genre: Memoirs / Middle Ages/Middle History
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times". He is also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan. The...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 2 begins with the Norse or Danish invasion of the island and continues through the end...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada - Stephen Leacock
Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal people. These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion....
The Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
The Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with The Saga of the Greenlanders. Containing fantastic anecdotes about ghostly visitations, wise...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 05 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 05 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 5 begins with the rise of the “Red Earl” and addresses the relations between Scotland...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: Antiquity / Middle Ages/Middle History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in...
