Western Europe category: 1822 books
Inquisition
The Reign of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A journey across centuries of religious conflict
Toby Green's incredible new book brings a vast panorama to life by focusing on the untold stories of individuals from all walks of life and every section of society who were affected by the Inquisition. From witches in Mexico, bigamists in Brazil,...
by Jan Braakman
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Mark Zuehlke, author of the Canadian Battle Series, writes of this book,“Jan Braakman's War in the Corner offers an insightful, dramatic, and evocative examination of the experiences of one small Netherlands community during World War II. The stories of resistance patriots, German sympathizers...
For the Cause of Liberty
A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Ireland's struggle for freedom reaches back much further into the annals of history than most of us can imagine. Since the eleventh century, when legendary king Brian Boru united the chieftains of Ireland to resist Viking invasion, countless individual leaders have fought to preserve and protect Ireland's...
Positively Medieval
Life and Society in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
What was life like in the Middle Ages? Is it true that everyone was middle-aged? (Short answer, No.)
In this social history of the Middle Ages, written in a witty and engaging manner by an eminent scholar and illustrated with photographs, you will learn about everything from medieval farm animals...
by Richard Salva
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
A New View of Swami Sri YukteswarWe know a lot from Autobiography of a Yogi about Sri Yukteswar’s personality in his final incarnation on earth, but what was he like in past lives? Was he, perhaps, gentler and more approachable? And how might that knowledge affect how we attune with him today?Paramhansa...
Inside Central Asia
A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.
by Wace
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Wace is not to be regarded as one of the great contributors to our knowledge of Arthurian legend, but without a familiarity with his work, later French romance can scarcely be appreciated, so important is his place as a delicate transformer of the story, the harsher elements of which he veiled with...
Waterloo
The Decisive Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Originally published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this experlty researched volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces. Ten articles...
Proving Woman
Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female...
The Complete Story of Civilization
Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ;...
by Achille Luchaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
"THE world is ill; it grows so old that it relapses into infancy. Common report has it that Antichrist has been born at Babylon and that the day of judgment is at hand." In writing these lines, Rigord, the monk of Saint-Denis, was ignorant of the fact that other monks had expressed the same...
by Mary Parmele
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
In an attempt to tell the story of a great nation in about 100 pages, it is needless to say there must be a rigid exclusion of all save essential facts. To those already familiar with the subject, this sketch is offered merely as a reminder of the sequence of conditions and events in the evolution...
Passionate Minds
Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any serious schooling, this twenty-seven-year-old’s...
Isabel the Queen
Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this sweeping biography, newly revised and annotated...