Search Results: Medieval and Renaissance History from Bonnie Lane Books

Brown Linen cloth covered hardcover boards with orange mettalic lettering to spine. Brick colored endpaper. Signed by author on book plate on FFE. Hardcover has no condition issues, is as new.
DJ has no condition issues, is as new.
Historians have held for centuries that the majestic Bayeux Tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But in this work, author, lawyer, and historian Bridgeford reveals a very different story that reinterprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. 1066 Offers readers a rare surprise- a book that reconsiders a long-accepted masterpiece and chain of events and sheds new light on this pivotal time.
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To this day, Muslims, and many others, know of the travels of Ibn Batuta. Over 25 years ago, I discussed him with a neighbor, who knew stories of Batuta that he had learned as a child in Somalia. Book: Black hardcover boards with gilt lettering on spine. Former owner's bookplate on left front endpaper. Text is as new, as are the covers and DJ. Dj has very light scuffing on its glossy paper, and it is price clipped. No other defects noted. The author, Ross Dunn, recounts the journeys of Ibn Batuta, who traveled throughout much of the then known world, through Moroccos Northern and Eastern Africa, the Near East, Iran, Crimea, India, Ceylon, Indonesia and China. All of this in the 1300s, when travel of this sort was rare, and dangerous. "....It is both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times."Mylar protected

An excellent historical study of the Irish hero Shane O'Neill and the later O'Neill and their relationship with the Elizabethans.Orange Cloth Boards with edge wear and fading at the tope and bottom of spine.Binding in good shape, no loose pages. No DJ, Mylar protected.