History of the Arabs

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Dallas G. Denery II

During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book, the author addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the world and to God. Exploring the writings of Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, Peter Aureol and Nicholas of Autrecourt in light of an assortment of popular religious guides for preachers, confessors and penitents, including Peter of Limoges' Treatise on the Moral Eye, he illustrates how the question preoccupied medieval men and women on both an intellectual and practical level. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary examination of the interplay between religious life, perspectivist optics and theology, and presents significant new insights into the medieval psyche and conception of the self, ensuring that this book will appeal to historians of medieval science and those of medieval religious life and theology.

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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The prestigious historian, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to a single, fateful year.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

From the book:The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts - as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long? All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.Leonard's, they had all turned their steps home-wards

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Daniel Mativat

"Le courageux Siegfried brave maints dangers pour affronter son destin. Il fera la rencontre de deux femmes dont il sera follement p̌ris. L'une d'elles lui donnera sa vie, l'autre lui apportera la mort. Rčit p̌ique passionnant d'un hřos germanique lǧendaire, rempli de luttes, de df̌is, de sang, mais principalement d'amour. Un livre captivant." Rf̌. La Sľection de livres pour les jeunes (de 12 ̉17 ans) 2001-2002.