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Phillip Lieberman, "The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
85 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2024
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
84 hours 32 mins; November 22, 2024
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
114 hours 16 mins; November 12, 2024
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Hannah Weaver, "Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past" (Cornell UP, 2024)
51 mins; November 04, 2024
Georgia Henley, "Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; November 01, 2024
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
53 mins; November 01, 2024
Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)
30 mins; October 31, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
82 hours 55 mins; October 30, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
95 hours 55 mins; October 28, 2024
Sharon Kinoshita, "Marco Polo and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
46 mins; October 26, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
33 mins; October 09, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
69 hours 40 mins; October 07, 2024
Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
38 mins; October 06, 2024
James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
30 mins; September 30, 2024
Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
52 mins; September 29, 2024
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
54 mins; September 24, 2024
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
65 hours 33 mins; September 20, 2024
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
68 hours 44 mins; September 18, 2024
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
69 hours 5 mins; September 17, 2024
Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
31 mins; September 11, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 09, 2024
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
45 mins; September 05, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
54 mins; August 30, 2024
Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār" (SUNY Press, 2024)
55 mins; August 21, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
39 mins; August 16, 2024
Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
55 mins; August 16, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; August 12, 2024
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
82 hours 17 mins; August 10, 2024
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
40 mins; August 08, 2024
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
68 hours 27 mins; August 04, 2024
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
62 hours 9 mins; July 23, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 45 mins; July 20, 2024
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
58 mins; July 17, 2024
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
33 mins; July 07, 2024
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
53 mins; June 30, 2024
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; June 28, 2024
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)
88 hours 14 mins; June 26, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
35 mins; June 20, 2024
Tahera Qutbuddin, trans., "Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī" (Brill, 2024)
103 hours 41 mins; June 17, 2024
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
58 mins; June 02, 2024
Thea Gomelauri, "The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry" (Taylor Institution Library, 2023)
68 hours 3 mins; June 01, 2024
Sohini Pillai, "Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; May 30, 2024
Daniel Matt et al., "The Zohar: Pritzker Edition" (Stanford UP, 2004-2017)
64 hours 50 mins; May 29, 2024
Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
63 hours 3 mins; May 16, 2024
Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
42 mins; May 14, 2024
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
46 mins; May 13, 2024
Joanne Edge, "Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death" (York Medieval Press, 2024)
67 hours 25 mins; May 11, 2024
Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)
31 mins; May 11, 2024
Lucy Barnhouse, "Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
69 hours 24 mins; May 07, 2024
Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
55 mins; May 07, 2024
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
67 hours 55 mins; May 04, 2024
Jason Birch, "The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Goraksanatha" (Institut Francais de Pondichery, 2024)
55 mins; April 29, 2024
Sheilagh Ogilvie, "The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis" (Princeton UP, 2019)
60 hours 29 mins; April 29, 2024
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
58 mins; April 22, 2024
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
67 hours 25 mins; April 19, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
24 mins; April 17, 2024
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
54 mins; April 08, 2024
Tzafrir Barzilay, "Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 36 mins; April 08, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
35 mins; April 07, 2024
Translating a Śrī Vidyā Text: The Cidvilāsastava of Amṛtānanda
48 mins; April 05, 2024
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
53 mins; April 02, 2024
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
99 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2024
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Ada Maria Kuskowski, "Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 36 mins; March 16, 2024
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; March 15, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; February 24, 2024
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
41 mins; February 21, 2024
Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
53 mins; February 17, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 13, 2024
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 13, 2024
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
47 mins; January 26, 2024
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; January 22, 2024
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 21, 2024
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
49 mins; January 16, 2024
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
38 mins; January 06, 2024
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
31 mins; January 05, 2024
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, "The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
52 mins; January 05, 2024
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
44 mins; December 29, 2023
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
55 mins; December 21, 2023
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
64 hours 37 mins; December 14, 2023
Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
42 mins; December 14, 2023
Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
63 hours 33 mins; December 11, 2023
Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
25 mins; December 07, 2023
Abigail Agresta, "The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
47 mins; December 06, 2023
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 03, 2023
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
81 hours 58 mins; November 30, 2023
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
71 hours 45 mins; November 27, 2023
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
39 mins; November 25, 2023
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
73 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2023
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
37 mins; November 18, 2023
Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
92 hours 47 mins; November 15, 2023
Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
51 mins; November 14, 2023
Don Hollway, "Battle for the Island Kingdom: The Struggle for England's Destiny 1000-1066" (Osprey, 2023)
52 mins; November 12, 2023
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 9 mins; November 04, 2023
Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; November 02, 2023
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