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Princeton University Press
Language
English
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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern
10) Stormbringers
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christenndom.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"John the Pupil is a medieval road movie in book form, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions. Modeling themselves after Saint Francis, the trio treks by foot through Europe, preaching the gospel and begging for sustenance"--
19) Medieval Europe
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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"The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses...
20) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
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