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  • The Great Mortalityby John Kelly

    HarperCollins 2012; Not Available

    La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster... more...

  • World Accumulation 1492-1789by Andre Gunder Frank

    Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 26.95

    In a highly productive, stimulating and incisive analysis, Andre gunder Frank studies cycles in capital accumulation, expansion and crisis. more...

  • Lost to the Westby Lars Brownworth

    Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00

    In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell?or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the empire?s existence. Indeed,... more...

  • Millennium-Jahrbuch (2008)by Wolfram Brandes; Alexander Demandt; Hartmut Leppin

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 104.00

    Millennium pursues a interdisciplinary international approach transcending epochal boundaries to research the First Millennium AD. The editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines – contributions from art and literary studies are published alongside historical, theological and philosophical contributions on both... more...

  • Medieval Capital Marketsby C J Zuijderduijn

    BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00

    This study uncovers the institutional framework of markets for 'renten', which allowed large segments of the public and private sectors in late medieval Holland to accumulate capital, and thus functioned as capital markets that enabled economic development. more...

  • Em nome de Deusby G J Ames

    BRILL 2009; US$ 110.00

    Based on historiographical changes over the last century, this new edited edition of the Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1499) provides the first English translation of this important expedition in more than a century. more...

  • Stephen Langtonby D Baumann

    BRILL 2009; US$ 188.00

    This biography of Stephen Langton, the Parisian master of theology and archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228), focuses on his political commitment as a prelate in a period of considerable crisis and upheaval in England, and establishes Langtona (TM)s substantial contribution to the making of the Magna Carta. Die Biographie A1/4ber Stephen Langton, den... more...

  • Communities and Crisisby S Kelly Wray

    BRILL 2009; US$ 151.00

    Based on testaments and notarial contracts, this examination of the Black Death of 1348 argues for social resilience in Bologna. The notarial record demonstrates that notaries, officials, medical practitioners, and clergy served the populace, while families remained intact and the populace resisted flight. more...

  • Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Centuryby Stephen F Brown; Thomas Dewender; Theo Kobusch

    BRILL 2009; US$ 226.00

    Focusing on Meister Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St.-PourAain, Walter Burley and Petrus Aureoli, this volume investigates the nature of philosophical and theological issues and arguments at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century. more...

  • Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Lifeby M F Cusato; G Geltner

    BRILL 2009; US$ 144.00

    The essays in this volume present a fresh approach to the different and shifting ways that the Franciscan Order and its apostlolic activities were perceived - positively and negatively - by men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. more...