Product Description: "Long after my bedtime I was still chuckling out loud, crying quietly, walking in words with the inimitable just susan. A read with Susan is like a journey with a best friend. Give yourself a pressure break, and walk with the queen of owning your life...read more

Relates the story of how Pheidippides, part of a small band of Greek soldiers, ran from Marathon to Sparta to ask the Spartans for help in defeating the Persian army, returned to Marathon, and then ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the Greek victory.

Product Description: As the fairy godmother told Cinderella, "If you want to change your life, you need to start from the ground up." Shoes make women - and, with this feisty, sexy book in hand, readers learn how to reinvent themselves, revamp their lives, and live their dreams...read more

Product Description: Betrayed or abandoned by almost every male in her life and forced to move constantly from place to place with her military family, Whitney Jameson was desperately searching for somewhere and someone to belong to. In her first fourteen years on this Earth, she had been to more states and lived in more places than most people see in an entire lifetime...read more

Product Description: In this invigorating collection of essays by leading medieval historians, the issue of laity—primarily the ideas and attitudes of lay people—are examined, as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles, and collective activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This study is an exploration of the collective values and activities of lay society in Western Europe between the tenth century and the thirteenth. Arguing that medieval attitudes and behaviour have been too readily defined in terms of hierarchical structures of government, clerical thought, or a narrow notion of kinship, the author instead places new emphasis on the horizontal bonds of collective association which permeated society in medieval England, France and Burgundy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. By refocusing attention on the social and political values that characterized lay collective activity, this book offers a stimulating new approach to the history of medieval Europe. The second edition of this important study incorporates a substantial new introduction, which amplifies the arguments of the original edition and takes account of recent research. ON THE FIRST EDITION `all students of the Middle Ages and of collective organization will be indebted to Reynolds for this rich and original book. It will be a starting-point for discussion and the reference point for information', Times Literary Supplement This book is intended for students of medieval history.

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Product Description: This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general. Most writing about medieval religious, political, legal, and social ideas starts from treatises written by academics and assumes that ideas trickled down from the clergy to the laity...read more

Product Description: CONTAINED in the volume, originally published in 1962, are the histories of fourteen parishes in south-west Middlesex: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, and Teddington in Spelthorne hundred; Heston-and-Isleworth and Twickenham in Isleworth hundred; and Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield, and Harlington in Elthorne hundred...read more