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- Clothing in the Middle Ages / by Elliott, Lynne;
Provides information on the various types of clothing worn by people during the Middle Ages, how clothing was traded and what clothing people wore during certain occasions.- Subjects: Costume; Civilization, Medieval;
- © c2004., Crabtree Pub.,
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- Medieval celebrations : how to plan holidays, weddings, and reenactments with recipes, customs, costumes, decorations, songs, dances, and games / by Diehl, Daniel; Donnelly, Mark,1967-;
Includes bibliographical references(p. 141-142), filmography (p. 143-144), and index.- Subjects: Festivals; Medievalism.; Manners and customs; Social history;
- © c2001., Stackpole Books,
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- The map of knowledge : a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found / by Moller, Violet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index."The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean--rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts--Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine--on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world"--- Subjects: Learning and scholarship; East and West.;
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- Knights and castles / by Matthews, Rupert.;
"Knights and Castles is a beautifully designed reader all about incredible medieval fortresses and the people who lived in them. Children will love to find out about why castles were built, some of the coolest castles, and medieval people's lives in and around them both in peace and wartime."--- Subjects: Readers (Publications); Knights and knighthood; Castles; Military art and science; Civilization, Medieval;
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- Femina : a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it / by Ramirez, Janina,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Through examination of artefacts, writings, and possessions, this reappraisal of medieval femininity presents countless cases of influential women such as Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, whose names were struck from history.- Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Feminism; Women; Women;
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Knights : in history and in legend /
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.LSC- Subjects: Knights and knighthood; Knights and knighthood; Military art and science; Middle Ages; Orders of knighthood and chivalry;
- © 2009., Firefly Books,
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- How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe / by Cahill, Thomas;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A look at how the Irish monasteries preserved all of the classical manuscripts that are now available while the rest of Europe was destroying them.- Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Civilization, Classical; Books; Manuscripts; Monastic libraries; Transmission of texts.; Scriptoria;
- © 1995., Doubleday,
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