David abulafia editor (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 320pp, illustrated throughout with in-text photographs. Blue cloth-covered boards; blind-embossed publisher's logo on front, gilt titles on spine; illustrated endpapers. 4to. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 236 pages. 7.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 10.80x8.50x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Minor mark on top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. For over four thousand years the Mediterranean was the centre of Western civilization. Geographically, it is a whole world in miniature, an inland sea whose shores encompass every type of terrain and climate. Historically, it has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. David Abulafia, doyen of Mediterranean scholars, has brought together a team of leading specialists from many countries to tell this enthralling and complex story as a connected narrative: from the physical setting, the prehistoric traders and the struggle between Phoenicians, Greeks and Etruscans ending in Roman victory, to the post-Roman nations, the Christian and Islamic powers, domination by England and France, and finally the twentieth century, divided between war and mass tourism.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 299 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 291 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. XXIII, 1045 pages, [8 leaves] : illustrations, maps : 24 cm. The fifth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History brings together studies of the political, religious, social and economic history of the whole of Europe and of the Mediterranean world between about 1198 and 1300. Comprehensive coverage of the developments in western Europe is balanced by attention to the east of Europe, including the Byzantine world, and the Islamic lands in Spain, north Africa and the Levant. Thematic articles look at the fine arts, the vernacular, communications and other aspects of a period in which the frontiers of Latin Christendom were expanding vigorously outwards; and attention is paid to the frontier societies that emerged in Spain, the Baltic and the Mediterranean islands.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 496 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.