Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal’s Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud in medieval Iceland that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all.ħ. Written in the thirteenth century, Njal’s Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law’s inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Focusing on the medieval period, Suzanne C. This book contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the pre-modern world. Akbari, Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450 This book is an attempt to present to the general reader the life and works of Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, who is beyond doubt the most provocative figure in the history of thought in the East.ĥ. Soheil Muhsin Afnan, Avicenna: His Life and Works This pioneering study uses extensive original research to explore Muslim treatment of non-Muslims in the 7th century and in the Middle Ages.Ĥ. Secondly Sultan Salah al-Din, the legendary “Saladdin” of Western Crusader lore. This book presents a critical look at historical events during the time of two key figures in the history of Islam: firstly Caliph Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, who played a critically important role in the birth and spread of Islam. Maher Abu-Munshar, Islamic Jerusalem and its Christians: A History of Tolerance and Tensions Before European Hegemony provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the opening decades of the 14th century, involved a vast region stretching between northwest Europe and China.ģ. In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy-a system far different from the European world system which emerged from it. Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. This book provides an original survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations encompassing England, Spain, France, and Germany, and sheds light in the process on the major developments in medieval history between 10.Ģ. The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role played by Jews in a predominantly Christian society. Anna Sapir Abulafia, Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom The blurbs for the books about the Middle Ages have been taken, whole or in part, from, except when noted.ġ. Here are 100 must-read titles about the Middle Ages in all its colorful, contradictory, and mind-bending splendor. The European Middles Ages was a society dominated by the Catholic Church, but with several other religions represented under that umbrella, such as Judaism, Islam, and various forms of Paganism. The Middle Ages was an age of progress in science, architecture, medicine, philosophy, legislation, and theology. The Middle Ages was an age of cultural exchange.
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