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Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years. His Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature. Polo’s way was paved by the pioneering efforts…
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Publications (4)
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series)
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001
The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft, taking into account the remarkable scholarship since the book's publication almost thirty years ago.
Spanning the period from 400 to 1700,...
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Europe and the Middle Ages (4th Edition)
By Edward Peters
This comprehensive, well-balanced historical survey of medieval Europe—from Roman imperial provinces to the Renaissance—covers all aspects of the history (political, literary, religious, intellectual, etc.) with a focus on social and political themes. It presents a complete picture of the complex process by which an ecumenical civilization that once ringed the basin of the Mediterranean Sea evolved into three other distinctive civilizations—Latin Europe, Greek Eastern Europe and Asia Minor, and...
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Inquisition
By Edward Peters
this Impressive Volume Is Actually Three Histories In One: Of The Legal Procedures, Personnel, And Institutions That Shaped The Inquisitorial Tribunals From Rome To Early Modern Europe; Of The Myth Of the Inquisition, From Its Origins With The Anti-hispanists And Religious Reformers Of The Sixteenth Century To Its Embodiment In Literary And Artistic Masterpieces Of The Nineteenth Century; And Of How The Myth Itself Became The Foundation For A History Of The Inquisitions.
