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Entangled Worlds

Far from a stagnant "Middle Ages," the years 600-1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds explores long-distance trade in the Americas, cosmopolitan effects of Islami…

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Max Adams
The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons

"For too long, the eighth century has been a neglected era in British history: a shadow land between the death of Saint Bede and the triumphs of King 2lfred and the eventual unification of England. B…

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Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) by Thorstein Veblen is a critical analysis of modern consumer society. Veblen argues that in capitalist economies, social status is displayed through conspicuous con…

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Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) by Thorstein Veblen is a critical analysis of modern consumer society. Veblen argues that in capitalist economies, social status is displayed through conspicuous con…

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Alice Loxton
Eleanor

An extraordinary historical journey through England. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestsellerEighteen A Waterstones Best History Book of 2025'Joyous. The perfect walk through history' - Sir T…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Victoria Botana de Beauvau-Craon,
Château de Haroué

A dazzling tour of Château de Haroué, the epitome of opulent French style and one of today's must-see examples of vibrant eighteenth-century architecture and design.Located in a remote village in the Lorr…

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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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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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Medieval Philosophical Writings on the Powers of the Soul

Philosophers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries held that organisms are alive by virtue of possessing a soul, and that the soul endows an organism with various powers. This volume presents a rich …

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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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