Filter By
Books (23)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and... -
Mission to the Volga by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.80The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north... -
Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan by Jonathan Shepard 9781784539337
Booksplease Price: £110.02The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious mission from the... -
Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River by Richard Frye 9781558763661
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £21.73This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Batutta. Ibn Fadlan was... -
Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage: Exchange of Cultures in the 'Norman' Peripheries of Medieval Europe Stefan Burkhardt 9781032922591
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.39The Normans have long been recognised as one of the most dynamic forces within medieval western Europe. With a reputation for aggression and conquest, they rapidly expanded their powerbase from... -
Medieval Muslim Philosophers and Intercultural Communication: Towards a Dialogical Paradigm in Education by Wisam Abdul Jabbar
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.05This book examines the works of Medieval Muslim philosophers interested in intercultural encounters and how receptive Islam is to foreign thought, to serve as a dialogical model, grounded in... -
Roles of the Northern Goddess by Hilda Ellis Davidson 9780415136112
Booksplease Price: £52.69While much work has been done on goddesses of the ancient world and the male gods of pre-Christian Scandinavia, the northern goddesses have been largely neglected. Roles of the Northern Goddess... -
The Viking World by Stefan Brink
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £52.83Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.Bringing... -
Islam in Russia: The Four Seasons by Ravil Bukharaev
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £116.66A fascinating story of spiritual survival. The cultural and national reawakening that has accompanied the resurgence of Islam in Russia has contributed to the revival and renewal of Islamic thought... -
Islam in Russia: The Four Seasons by Ravil Bukharaev 9780415759915
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.51A fascinating story of spiritual survival. The cultural and national reawakening that has accompanied the resurgence of Islam in Russia has contributed to the revival and renewal of Islamic thought... -
Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700-1100 by P. H. Sawyer
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £34.56Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.Reviews'Kings and Vikings is no cautious general account of the... -
The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife by Candi K. Cann
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.45This Handbook traces the history of the changing notion of what it means to die and examines the many constructions of afterlife in literature, text, ritual, and material culture throughout time. The... -
The Emergence of Russia 750-1200 by Simon Franklin 9780582490918
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.37This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a... -
The Viking Road to Byzantium H.R. Ellis Davidson 9781032542300
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.33The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be... -
Perspectives On Western Art, Vol.1: Source Documents And Readings From The Ancient Near East Through The Middle Ages Linnea Wren 9780064301541
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.98This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of... -
Slavic Gods and Heroes by Judith Kalik 9780367588649
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.90This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the Slavic pagan religion made on the basis of a thorough re-examination of all reliable sources. What did Slavic pagan religion have in common with the... -
Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories by Agnieszka Lowczanin
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £118.05For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cultural mode in recent decades. The globalization of... -
Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public by May Hawas 9781032093123
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.07Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the... -
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga by Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.95Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation... -
The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion by Richard N. Frye 9781558761117
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.27Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the... -
Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant, stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton's bestselling techno-thrillers. It is AD922 and... -
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years by Chase F. Robinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.38The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's secondlargest world religion. But... -
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak 9780226830407
Booksplease Price: £28.77A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to...