A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations

An examination of the rise of Islam, the life of Muhammad, and the Islamic principles of faith. Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair describe the golden age of the Abbasids, the Mongol invasions, and the great Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires that emerged in their wake.