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Thomism Revisited

Thomism is a philosophical and theological body of ideas which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). It holds that there are enduring philosophical questions about reali…

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Paul Stern
Dante's Political Philosophy

Dante's Divina Commedia/Divine Comedy (completed c. 1321) is considered one of the greatest works in Western literature, and its three canticles - Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso - have had a powerful i…

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Peter Weigel
Reading Aquinas's Five Ways

Thomas Aquinas's famous five arguments for God's existence, or 'Five Ways,' in Summa theologiae Ia q.2 a.3 are a cornerstone of thought and discussion about God and are still much debated today. In this b…

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David Woodman
The First King of England

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Br…

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James Ormiston M'William
Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger During the Years 1841-2, Comprising an Account of the Fever which Led to Its Abrupt Termination

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Michelle Pfeffer
Inventing Immortality

In the decades either side of 1700, England witnessed a major public debate about the immortality of the soul. At its centre were two unlikely figures: the lawyer Henry Layton and the physician William Co…

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James Ormiston M'William
Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger During the Years 1841-2, Comprising an Account of the Fever which Led to Its Abrupt Termination

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
The Emperor and the Elephant

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the cou…

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Sara S Poor
The Literary Agency of Medieval Women

What do we miss when we see women's agency only through the lens of transgression? What happens when we expand our notion of authorship to include women who were writing books but not necessarily composin…

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Steven Nadler
Why Read Maimonides Today?

Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval period, but also one of history's greatest philosophers. As the autho…

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Jeremy Phillip Brown
A World of Piety

A World of Piety examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.What were the aims of the celebrated works of rabbinic wisdom fashioned d…

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Dawn Hadley, Julian Richards
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England

The hidden story of a little-known but transformative period in the formation of England as a nation.The Viking Great Army that swept through England between AD 865 and 878 altered the course of British h…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Alison Weir
Queens at War

The tumultuous period in English history that marked the end of the medieval era and the rise of the Tudors comes to stunning life in the final volume of Alison Weir's four-part Medieval Queens series, fi…

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Thomas F Madden
The Fall of Republics

What caused the world's great republics to fall---and what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies todayIn this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the peopl…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Patrick Zachmann, Olivier de Chalus
Restoring Notre-Dame de Paris

Currently rising from the ashes, Notre-Dame cathedral's restoration is shown in this beautiful book, a genuine ode to a monument rich in symbolism and secrets.

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Neil Price
The Sea-King and the Sorceress

Almost everyone has heard of the Vikings: scouring the coasts of Europe in their longships, with plunder and pillage. Those raiders were real and deserved their reputation, but in fact they were only ever…

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