In 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 a…
Shelve Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Ibn Battutah was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries o…
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels rec…
أسطورة عربية تحكي قصة شخص يدعى حي بن يقظان نشأ في جزيرة وحده، وترمز للإنسان، وعلاقته بالكون والدين، كما تحتوي على العديد من القصص والأساطير الفرعية، أنشأها فلاسفة، واحتوت مضامين فلسفية. أول منشيء لقصة…
Written in AD 731, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period. It begins …
Shelve Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in The Secret History the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the sixth…
يتناول الجاحظ في كتابه صفة البخل من خلال مجموعة من القصص والحكايات والنوادر الطريفة والمضحكة التي تصف سلوك وتصرفات البخلاء الذين قابلهم في حياته. لم يكن هدفه مجرد السخرية، بل كان يهدف إلى نقد هذه الصف…
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe…
Shelve The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from …
'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History 'Splendid - an intimate portrait of the Viking Age. Highly recommend…
Shelve Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the "Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings," the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, co…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more …
Shelve Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has …
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight int…
Shelve The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
No mountaineer, Newby set out with a friend to explore the formidable peaks of the Nuristan Mountains in northeast Afghanistan. His witty, unorthodox report is packed with incidents both ghastly and e…
هذا حديث أريد أنْ أخلصه للحق ما وسعى إخلاصه للحق وحده، وأنْ أتحرى فيه الصواب ما استطعت إلى تحري الصواب سبيلا، وأنْ أحمل نفسي فيه على الإنصاف لا أحيد عنه ولا أمالئ فيه حزباً من أحزاب المسلمين على حزب، …
In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy …
The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealthiest and most powerful in medieval Europe and forged France as we know it today
In House of Lilies …
Shelve House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
كانت أصواتهم تطل من وراء قضبان السجن، كل زنزانة لها ذائقة خاصة، لها بصمة الجُرم، ولكن في الحقيقة أنهم كانوا جميعًا أبرياء. وكان سجنهم (الجُرم الذي لم يرتكبوه)، ولكنهم تشربوه، فصار يقيدهم ويمنعهم من تح…
Shelve أبي الذي أكره: تأملات حول التعافي من إساءات الأبوين وصدمات النشأة
