books about: medieval     books:       Medieval Europe: A Short History23 reviews C. Warren Hollister, Judith Bennett McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005 Great Short History This book is a great overview of medieval Europe. It is packed with information and is a dense read, but worth it.             The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-17911 review Jacob Rader Marcus Hebrew Union College Press, 2000 amazing This amazing book has 96 primary sources - excerpts from books and essays by and about pre-emancipation Jews, discussing topics as varied as Christian and Muslim oppression of Jews, Jewish religious law, Jewish false messiahs, and Jewish education. Some of the more interesting things I learned: *That Christian oppression of Jews began almost as soon as Christians took over the Roman ...             Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village18 reviews Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 2007 Truly excellent! Winner of the 2008 Newberry Medal, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! was actually written to be performed. Laura Amy Schlitz has written here a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues which, taken together, depict the life of kids of all kinds in a medieval village. There's the Falconer's Son, the Blacksmith's Daughter, the runaway villein, the Young Lord, The Pilgrim and The Sniggler, all of ...             Readings in Medieval History4 reviews Broadview Press, 2003 Medieval History- packaged without filler Readings in Medieval History is a terrific book for a number of reasons. Many students today encounter only secondary source materials in their history courses; in other words, students are immediately presented with a particular historian's opinion of a given source document before he or she is allowed to dive into the readings themselves. Secondary text books frame (and limit) one's readings ...             The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History: Revised Edition (Hist Atlas)13 reviews Colin McEvedy Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 Great McEvedy's shamlessly Eurocentric view is a breath of fresh air in a world polluted by the smog of neo-anthropological cultural correctness. If you want to learn about the who, what, when, and where [emphasis on the last two] of Europe/the Near East during the Middle Ages, then this is the book for you. The maps are highly detailed; the text is informative and easy to read. You won't get lost ...             Early Medieval Architecture (Oxford History of Art)3 reviews Roger Stalley Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Flagship Volume in New Art History Series Published last year, this is one of the initial volumes to appear in the extremely good, new "Oxford History of Art" series, which almost outdoes even the recent "Everyman Art Library", which it resembles. Both series are an attempt to make available up-to-the-moment overviews of selected areas of the history of building, sculpture, painting, and photography. Whereas the Everyman series seems ...             Early Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art)2 reviews Lawrence Nees Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Prof. Nees is the MAN! I took an undergraduate class with Larry Nees at the University of Delaware, and I have yet to meet anyone who does not think he is one of the most coherent, intelligent, and fascinating art historians out there. You can't go wrong here!             History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond: with student notebook3 reviews Bert Bower Teachers Curriculum Inst, 2004 It takes a propagandist to understand propaganda I am a social studies teacher in North Carolina and use this textbook in my class. I teach sixth grade, so I only touch on the subject of Islam in my curriculum, but I have found this book to be an excellent resource and teaching tool. To use the textbook properly and to understand what it teaches, one must take the History Alive! training. I had that training two years ago and fell in love ...             Life in a Medieval Castle and Village Coloring Book6 reviews John Green Dover Publications, 1990 THESE COLORING BOOKS ARE EXCELLENT! The Dover Coloring books are all excellent! They are also an awesome value! We own and use over 20 of these coloring books for history and science. They are extremely detailed and educational, but even my 6 year old loves to color them! This book covers from the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the merchant class and features pictures like daily activities of those in the castle, ...             Life in a Medieval Village11 reviews Frances Gies, Joseph Gies Harper Perennial, 1991 Solid introduction Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies. Recommended. Life in a Medieval Village is one of a series, including Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle, written by Frances and Joseph Gies. This series rarely touches upon the great people and events romanticized by Hollywood and numerous fiction writers (and perhaps even a few historians), but focuses on the basics of ...             Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition Ernst Breisach University Of Chicago Press, 2007 In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, ...             Medieval Art2 reviews Marilyn Stokstad Westview Press, 2004 the full medival textbook As an art student, I have found Stockstsd's book a great help and a source of pleasure. The book containes wide and relevant infomation about the art of the Middle Ages - from it's early days to the high Gothics. The diferrent chapters offer the reader a relevant and comfortable division to chapters and issues. Wide historical backround,suggested by Stockstad in every chapter, is interesting ...             The Worlds of Medieval Europe2 reviews Clifford R. Backman Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Fantastic Read This was not only an INTERESTING history book, but Backman is just a very funny guy and that completely comes across in his writings. The footnotes, typically a skipped portion of my reading, became my favourite details. The man knows his stuff and likes to engage; there's no reason NOT to read this book.             The Lost Prophecies (Medieval Murderers) The Medieval Murderers Simon & Schuster UK, 2008 575 AD: A baby is washed up on the Irish coast and is taken to the nearest abbey. He grows up to become a scholar and a monk, but, in early adulthood, he appears to have become possessed, scribbling endless strange verses in Latin. When the Abbott tries to have him drowned, he disappears. Later, his scribblings turn up as the Book of Bran, his writings translated as portents of the future. Violence and untimely death befall all who come into the ...             Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500 Robin W. Winks, Teofilo F. Ruiz Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500 examines the development of western European social, political, economic, and cultural institutions during one of the most complex and creative periods the world has ever known. The book looks at the history of Medieval Europe in relation to its links with the rest of the world, exploring the interaction of western Europe with Islam, the Far East, Africa, and such outlying ...             Discovering Our Past - California Edition: Medieval And Early Modern Times (Glencoe California) Jack Spielvogel McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2005              search for books 315-1791, 400-1500, ancient, antiquity, architecture, beyond, california, castle, coloring, discovering, edition, europe, glencoe, historiography, history, masters, medieval, modern, modernity, murderers, notebook, oxford, penguin, prophecies, readings, revised, student, village, voices, worlds books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Okologische Senkrechtstarter: Die Studie zu grunen Markterfolgen home  impressum - about us