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1		Witch on the Wall: Mediaeval Erotic Sculpture in the British Isles by B. Traven it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture by Ita MacCarthy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk 3.68 avg rating — 1,613 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism by Samuel Fanous (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill 3.80 avg rating — 47,707 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs by Carl Lindahl (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 188 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism by Timothy B. Husband really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 5,499 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 3,718 ratings score: 163, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		The Melancholie Knight by Samuel Rowlands it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination by Paul Freedman 3.84 avg rating — 273 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller 3.88 avg rating — 2,386 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13		Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel 3.76 avg rating — 30,871 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		The Doome Warning All Men to the Judgement by Stephen Batman 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell 3.93 avg rating — 2,913 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro 4.07 avg rating — 2,574 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17		The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Spain by Mireille Mentre 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17		Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland 3.84 avg rating — 4,890 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19		Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets, 1538-1687 by Andrea Carlino 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19		The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c.1100 - c.1300 by Linda M. Paterson 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19		In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland 3.90 avg rating — 6,023 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22		Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain by William A. Christian Jr. 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22		Baroque: Figures of Excess in Seventeenth-Century European Art and German Literature by Peter J. Burgard it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22		Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley 4.28 avg rating — 5,117 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25		The Effluents of Deity: Alchemy and Psychoactive Sacraments in Medieval and Renaissance Art by Carl A.P. Ruck 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25		Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Medieval Germany by Ruth Mellinkoff 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25		A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.05 avg rating — 45,802 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28		An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652-1699 by Michael Hunter (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29		Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Central European Histories, 52) by Warren Alexander Dym 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30		Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn 4.05 avg rating — 308 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30		Medieval Communities and the Mad by Aleksandra Pfau 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32		Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones 3.93 avg rating — 476 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32		The Mirror of Cruelty: A Compendium of Atrocities Committed Against Catholics in the Sixteenth Century by Arnold Havens 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34		Schizophrenia 1677: A Psychiatric Study of an Illustrated Autobiographical Record of Demoniacal Possession by Ida Macalpine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34		Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones 4.02 avg rating — 3,051 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36		The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by María Rosa Menocal 3.92 avg rating — 3,232 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36		The Devil's Mortal Weapons: An Anthology of Late Medieval and Protestant Vernacular Theology and Popular Culture by Joanna Miles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38		Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Nile by Derek A. Welsby 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38		Jan van Linschoten: The Dutch Marco Polo by Charles McKew Parr it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40		The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Key Writings on Subcultures 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld, Volume One by A.V. Judges it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40		The Medieval Myths by Norma Lorre Goodrich 3.58 avg rating — 142 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42		Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Münster, the Famous Metropolis of Westphalia (set 2 volumes) (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 132) by Hermann Von Kerssenbrock 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43		Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel by Anthony Parr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43		Medieval intellectual history: A primer by Joseph R. Berrigan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45		The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes; Or a Summarie Discourse, Prooving: The Wearing and Nourishing of a Lock or Love-Locke, to be Altogether Unseemely, and Unlawfull unto Christians by William Prynne 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45		Theatre in the Round: The Staging of Cornish Medieval Drama by Sydney Higgins (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47		A Discourse Concerning Prodigies by John Spencer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47		Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne 3.87 avg rating — 842 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49		The Treatment of Head Injuries in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648; Joannis Scultetus and His Age by Louis Bakay 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49		Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer 3.94 avg rating — 211 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51		Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by Katharine Hodgkin 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52		Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim by Michael Brandt (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52		Averting Demons: The Protecting Power of Medieval Visual Motifs and Themes by Ruth Mellinkoff 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54		The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome by G.W. Bernard 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54		A Relation of the Fearful Estate of Francis Spira, in the Year 1548 by Nathaniel Bacon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56		A History of Science, Magic and Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe by Steven P. Marrone 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56		Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy by Cordelia Warr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58		Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58		Magna Carta: The Medieval Roots of Modern Politics by David Starkey 3.73 avg rating — 550 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60		Cistercian Chronicles and Necrologies by David H. Williams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61		Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World by Geoffrey Moorhouse 3.91 avg rating — 285 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61		Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvester by Brian Stock it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63		Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong 3.63 avg rating — 120 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63		Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe by Patricia Healy Wasyliw 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65		The Horn Exalted or, Roome for Cuckolds; Being a Treatise Concerning the Reason and Original of the Word Cuckold, and Why Such Are Said to Wear Horns by Unknown 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65		Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing by James H. Barrett (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67		Seven Noble Knights: A Saga of Family, Betrayal, and Revenge in Medieval Spain by Jessica Knauss (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67		A Bewitched Duchy: Lorraine and its dukes, 1477-1736 by William Monter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69		Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640-1660 by Nigel Smith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69		The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffrey L. Singman 3.97 avg rating — 256 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71		The Archaeology of Medieval Spain, 1100-1500 by Magdalena Valor (Ed.) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71		Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610: Ritual and Experience (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700) by Andrew H. Chen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73		The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior by Michael Jones 4.08 avg rating — 1,522 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73		Theatre Des Cruautez Des Hereticques de Nostre Temps by Richard Verstegan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75		The Song of Simon de Montfort: The Life and Death of a Medieval Revolutionary by Sophie Ambler 4.02 avg rating — 251 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75		Renaissance Paratexts by Helen Smith (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77		Life in a Medieval City: The Research Behind Game of Thrones―Step Inside 1250s Troyes, France, to Discover Medieval Guilds and City Life (Medieval Life, 1) by Frances Gies 3.84 avg rating — 3,992 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77		Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication by Alison Langdon (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79		Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603 by Cheryl Fury 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79		In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past by Simon R. Doubleday (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81		Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck by Elisabeth Berry Drago 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82		Murder, Rape, and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages by Steven Muhlberger (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83		Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by Jamie Kreiner 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83		The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century by Mariet Westermann it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85		The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Eleanor Janega 4.03 avg rating — 947 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85		Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination (Studies and Texts, 186) by Karl Whittington it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87		The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation by Debra Strickland 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87		Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham 4.33 avg rating — 192 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89		The Middle Ages in 50 Objects by Elina Gertsman 4.08 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89		Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance by Sylvia Huot it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91		A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’: With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated ... of his Autobiography (Aries Book Series, 12) by John Edward Fletcher 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91		Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages by Sanping Chen 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93		Alchemical Imagery in the Works of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651 - 1689) by Eugene Kuzmin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93		Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies 3.88 avg rating — 962 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95		Snails, Sex and Sermons in 1744 by Friedrich Christian Lesser 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95		The Story of the Drinking Horn: Drinking Culture in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages (21) (Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History) by Vivian Etting it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97		Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins by Marshall Faintich 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97		Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages ― A Medieval Book by Richard E. Rubenstein 3.99 avg rating — 1,096 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99		Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99		Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages by Elizabeth Moore Willingham 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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204 books · 6 voters · list created September 23rd, 2018 by Osiris Oliphant (votes) .

Tags: art, early-modern, enlightenment, enthusiasm, history, magic, medieval, middle-ages, occult, renaissance, science

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