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Cluny : In Search Of God's Lost Empire
by Mullins Edwin
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History - Medieval
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1130 AD: the great abbey church at Cluny claims preeminence as the largest Christian house of worship in Europe, eclipsing in grandeur even St. Peter's at Rome. Today: almost nothing remains of Cluny's soaring edifice. How a small community of monks in a backwater village in central France became the broker of ecclesiastical and (to a significant degree) political power in the medieval era-- so much so that... read more>>>

Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl
by Egan, Timothy
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History - U.S. - 20th Century
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Remember the cloud of dust and debris that raced through lower Manhattan on September 11th? Imagine a cloud millions of times larger and thicker, moving at hurricane velocity, engulfing town after town in a choking darkness, shooting static electricity in all directions: such was The Great Duster of Palm Sunday, 1935, thereafter known as Black Sunday on the American High Plains. Timothy Egan's account of th... read more>>>

Distant Mirror : The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
by Tuchman Barbara
$18.95
History - Medieval
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Seldom have the Four Horsemen ridden a populace to ground as unmercifully as in late medieval Europe. Through the life of Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (among the foremost French nobles of the era), Barbara Tuchman illumines in rich detail the agonies of a century in which it seemed God had abandoned humankind to every vice and cruelty of which it was capable. Do we at the start of this millennium confront ... read more>>>

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