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  • Contesting the Middle Ages
    John Aberth
    Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics. It is essential reading for students of Medieval history and historiography. ...
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    79,48 €

  • Plagues in World History
    Aberth / John Aberth
    Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes. Our ability to alter disease, ev...
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    47,42 €

  • An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
    John Aberth
    The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings.　An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic...
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    76,86 €

  • From the Brink of the Apocalypse
    John Aberth
    This lively work describes how the lives of ordinary people in the Middle Ages were transformed by a series of crises, whilst also showing how cultural assumptions, including a belief in the apocalypse, gave people an ability to face up positively to these problems. This second edition is brought fully up to date with recent scholarship, drawing some bold new conclusions and ra...
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    74,11 €

  • A Knight at the Movies
    John Aberth
    Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public’s knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, o...
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    89,01 €