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Book cover for R. Howard Bloch: A Needle in the Right Hand of God

A Needle in the Right Hand of God : The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry

R. Howard Bloch
Unabridged on 6 CDs, $44.95

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile-an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This hauntin ...

Book cover for R. Howard Bloch: A Needle in the Right Hand of God

A Needle in the Right Hand of God : The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry

R. Howard Bloch
Unabridged on 1 MP3-CD, $30.95

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile-an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This hauntin ...

Book cover for Thomas Bulfinch: The Age of Chivalry

The Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch
Unabridged on 11 CDs, $145.95

This masterpiece of history and fable recounts the timeless tales of Arthur and the Round Table, and discusses the historical events and the worldview of the civilization that created them.

Book cover for Thomas Bulfinch: The Age of Chivalry

The Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch
Unabridged on 1 MP3-CD, $44.95

This masterpiece of history and fable recounts the timeless tales of Arthur and the Round Table, and discusses the historical events and the worldview of the civilization that created them.

Book cover for David Levering Lewis: God's Crucible

God's Crucible : Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

David Levering Lewis
Unabridged on 15 CDs, $117.95

In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizea "winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew. David Levering Lewis's narrative reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished---a beacon of cooperat ...

Book cover for William Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age

William Manchester
Unabridged on 9 Cassettes, $107.95

With the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.

Book cover for William Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance

William Manchester
Unabridged on 9 Cassettes, $44.95

Manchester's marvelously vivid popular history humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance.

Book cover for William Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance

William Manchester
Unabridged on 10 CDs, $131.95

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrati ...

Book cover for William Manchester: A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance

William Manchester
Unabridged on 1 MP3-CD, $44.95

With the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.

Book cover for Colin Wells: Sailing from Byzantium

Sailing from Byzantium : How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

Colin Wells
Unabridged on 1 CD, $102.95

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege....The st ...