From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings -- a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom. Focusing on key events, including the sack of Lindisfarne in 793 and the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, medieval history expert John Haywood recounts the saga of the Viking Age, from the creation of the world through to the dwindling years of halfhearted raids and elegiac...

Graphic novel treatment of Victor Hugo's classic novel about a misunderstood bell ringer.

A retelling, based on the film, of how Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, saves the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

Lady Saura of Roget lived a lonely life of servitude - her fortune controlled by her unscrupulous stepfather - until she was summoned to ghe castle of Sir William of Miraval. The magnificent knight had once sworn to live or perish by the sword. But that was before his world was engulfed in agonizing darkness. Inglaterra, primavera de 1153. Lady Saura Roget es casi una esclava en manos de su padrastro, un hombre malvado que tiene el poder sobre el...

A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.

Explores the world of medieval knights, including information on their equipment and armor, battle tactics, methods of training, and social customs.

This series compile text, letters, and works by the artists, the latter of which are presented in hundreds of brilliantly colored reproductions. This unique style allows the reader to intimately follow the artist's life and development as dictated by the man himself, and by those who knew him, professionally and personally.

"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world -- they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle...

A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly four hundred people succumbed to the same agonizing compulsion....