Middle Age


The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
All Fours
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
The Sense of an Ending
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
Sandwich
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
The Travels
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMacbeth by William Shakespeare
40+ Main Characters
334 books — 88 voters

Witches Abroad by Terry PratchettThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesTwo Old Women by Velma Wallis
Reifungsroman
38 books — 6 voters


طلافروش ها در قرون وسطی شروع به فعالیت های بانکی کردند: نامه تعهد پرداخت یا حواله ی پرداخت پشتوانه ی پرداخت گردید و اغلب شاهزاده ها و‌حکمرانان بدهکار، جهت پرداخت و تسویه ی بدهی های خود به این تعهدنامه های پرداخت متوسل می شدند. این قبیل پرداخت بدهی، در شهرهای تجاری بزرگ قرون وسطی رواج یافت. با رواج تعهدنامه های پرداخت، خاندان های طلافروش- بانکدار، به جز قدرت اقتصادی، قدرت سیاسی نیز به دست آوردند. هر زمان پادشاه یا حاکم بدهکار قادر نبود بدهی خود را باز پرداخت کند، مجبور می شد از زمین های حکومتی به ...more
Liviana Poropat, الف مثل اقتصاد

Angela Flournoy
She was forty-six years old. He could do nothing to ease her loneliness, that kernel of isolation that had been part of her so long it was like a prosthetic fused to her body. She'd grown a life around it, and at this point maybe it was naïve to spend time imagining a life without it. ...more
Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

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