Virgins Of Venice
 Enough Already: The topic of this book - a look into the convents of medieval/Renaissance Venice - is intriguing enough that I bought it in hardcover, something I rarely do. The first few chapters lived up to my expectations, providing well-researched [... more]
CDN$15.63
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The Encyclopedia of Angels, Second Edition
From Amazon.com: "What we know about angels," writes Rosemary Ellen Guiley, writer and lecturer on spirituality and human potential, "comes through our otherworldly contact with them." To bolster her claim, Guiley includes stories of [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Shakespeare In Love (Original
From Amazon.com: Perhaps best known for his soundtrack to Mrs. Brown, Stephen Warbeck's score for Shakespeare in Love follows a similar pattern: Elizabethan themes and light string melodies work together to span a spectrum of moods. And the romantic [... more]
CDN$16.99
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Lady And The Unicorn
Woven delights: Boy, I wasn't ready for this one! Tracy Chevalier's tale of an artist and his dallying with the servants is a subtle study in power plays, moray of the past, and sexy and imaginative romps. First we have Nicholas who gets a commission to [... more]
CDN$20.00
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Ghost Of A Rose
Spectacular: This has got to be the best Blackmore's Night CD yet. I am partial toward music with a medieval or renaissance feel, and particularly music with magical and mystical themes, and this album has it all. While the styles vary from the fairy- [... more]
CDN$23.99
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Enchanted Garden
Excellent follow-up: Excellent follow-up to the superb "A Maid In Bedlam" album. This one covers pretty much the same territory as the first, but is also a must. A gorgeous blend of medieval/renaissance British Isles music that, like "A [... more]
CDN$18.99
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The World Lit Only By Fire Medieval Mind And The ...
From Amazon.com: It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European [... more]
CDN$30.10
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Lady and the Unicorn
Woven delights: Boy, I wasn't ready for this one! Tracy Chevalier's tale of an artist and his dallying with the servants is a subtle study in power plays, moray of the past, and sexy and imaginative romps. First we have Nicholas who gets a commission to [... more]
CDN$23.88
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Lady And The Unicorn
Woven delights: Boy, I wasn't ready for this one! Tracy Chevalier's tale of an artist and his dallying with the servants is a subtle study in power plays, moray of the past, and sexy and imaginative romps. First we have Nicholas who gets a commission to [... more]
CDN$36.00
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Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical ...
Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical: Buy it! If you're a serious student (casual readers may be intimidated by the massive amount of footnotes), get this one. If one could own four books on Dracula they should be the Florescu-McNally [... more]
CDN$58.81
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Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth ...
Late Middle Ages Overview: I can think of no better introduction, as well as comprehensive review, of the medieval renaissance than this wonderful synthesis of medieval art and medieval sacramentalism, wherein the whole universe, from stellar [... more]
CDN$59.95
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Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics
Not so much a history as a bibliography: It's difficult to criticize a volume that is the product of a prodigious amount of research, but I'm afraid that the Colons have failed to deliver what the title promises. Nuturing Children is not a history of [... more]
CDN$115.59
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