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The Incredible Expandable Book

Erik Kwakkel

Erik Kwakkel is book historian and professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Folding almanac, ca. 1415–1420. London, Wellcome Institute, Archives and Manuscripts, 8932. CC 4.0 International. Source: www.wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections.This section opens with a manuscript with a peculiar shape...

The Council of Florence, 1439–45

The Ages of Faith : Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Western Europe

I.B.Tauris, 2009

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...This chapter was first published in A. Hastings (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford, 2000), pp. 242–3. The copyright for the original version, belonging to Oxford University Press, is hereby acknowledgedFlorence...

General chart of the coasts of Europe, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the western coast of Africa southward to Cape Negro

Christoforo Soligo??

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...Map of West African coast (noted as "Ginea Portogalexe", or Portuguese Guinea) by an anonymous cartographer (often attributed to Christoforo Soligo). Part of a Portolano, containing thirty-five charts, on a plane scale, each 1 f. 9in. X l...

The Travels of la Brocquière.

Bertrandon de la Broquière

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Bertrandon de la Broquiere (d. 1459) was an Acquitanian traveller, writer, and spy for Philip the Good. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Thomas Johnes

Thomas Johnes

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Morris Rossabi

Morris Rossabi is Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and also Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College, both in the USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Mission to the Medieval Middle East : The Travels of Bertrandon de la Broquière to Jerusalem and Constantinople

I.B.Tauris, 2019

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...Here Begins The Journey of Bertrandon de la Brocquikre to the Holy Land, in the Year of Grace One Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Two.To animate and inflame the hearts of such noble men as may be desirous of seeing the world...

The History of the Aqqoyunlu Turcomans

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

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Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...The Rule Of Abu’l–Nasr Hasan Beg Son Of Ali Beg Son Of Qara–Usman The wise reader will have learned from the third section of this tome that Amir Qara–Usman ruled in prosperity parts of the province of Diyarbekir during the reign...

Chart of the western half of the Mediterranean and the western coast of Europe, with part of England and Ireland

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...East Mediterranean and Black Sea. West Mediterranean and Atlantic Coast. Part of a Portolano, containing thirty-five charts, on a plane scale, each 1 f. 9in. X l f. 4in., executed by different Venetian artists about 1489. On vellum...

The History of the Reign Of Sultan–Husayn Mirza

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

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Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...A Summary Of The Victorious Khaqan Abu’l–Ghazi Sultan–Husayn Mirza’s Career The Victorious Khaqan who trod the path of rule was supported by divine assistance. The days of his reign were as free of worry as days of spring, and through his...

The History of the Kings of Mazanderan

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

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Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...The Rise to Power Of The Third Line Of The Bavand Kings Historians have recorded that in the year 635 [1238], when the flourishing realms of Transoxiana and Iran were unjustly devastated by the forces of Turan, Husamuddawla Ardashir—son...

Medicine and Disease: The Female “Patient” in Medieval Europe

Iona Mccleery

Iona Mccleery

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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...At some time in the late thirteenth century, a woman called Maria Domingas began to despair of ever conceiving a child. The wife of a rich merchant of the parish of Marvila in the Portuguese town of Santarém, Maria had been bleeding...

The Age of the Jagiellonian Kings (1490–1526)

Pál Engel

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The late Pál Engel (1938-2001) was head of the Medieval Department at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tamás Pálosfalvi

Tamás Pálosfalvi

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Andrew Ayton

Andrew Ayton is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Hull. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Realm of St Stephen : A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526

I.B.Tauris, 2001

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...The death of Matthias relieved the Estates of an enormous amount of pressure. The autocratic habits that the king had assumed during the last decade of his rule irritated both his partisans and his enemies, whether prelates, barons...