Product Description: This work examines historical problems encountered on topics from eleventh-century France, England, and the Crusader East, and to a lesser degree from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These topics include works of art - the Eleanor of Aquitaine vase, the celebrated Bayeux Tapestry, a sixteenth century poem and painting - to inquiries about individual people, such as the first troubadour poet...read more

Product Description: This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and religion, this book argues that apocalyptic expectations did exist around the year 1000...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the Vikings, first Crusade, expansion of the Islamic empire, Asia's cultural renaissance, and the rise of civilization in America at the turn of the first century. (view table of contents)

Describes the Vikings, first Crusade, expansion of the Islamic empire, Asia's cultural renaissance, and the rise of civilization in America at the turn of the first century. (view table of contents)

Surveys the history, civilization, and religion of eleventh-century China, Middle East, Europe, Russia and India