An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.

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Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

Inside the Cold War mind

Healthy scepticism

Two Renaissance book hunters : the letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis ; translated from the Latin and annotated / by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan.

The See of Peter / [edited] by James T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis.

An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) / translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.

Heresies of the high middle ages / selected sources translated and annotated by Walter L. Wakefield and Austin P. Evans.

Lanzelet / Ulrich von Zatzikhoven ; translated by Thomas Kerth ; with additional notes by Kenneth G.T. Webster and Roger Sherman Loomis.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

Inside the Cold War mind

Healthy scepticism

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Catalogue

Two Renaissance book hunters : the letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis ; translated from the Latin and annotated / by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan.

The See of Peter / [edited] by James T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis.

An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) / translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.

Heresies of the high middle ages / selected sources translated and annotated by Walter L. Wakefield and Austin P. Evans.

Lanzelet / Ulrich von Zatzikhoven ; translated by Thomas Kerth ; with additional notes by Kenneth G.T. Webster and Roger Sherman Loomis.

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Stories

Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

Inside the Cold War mind

Healthy scepticism

Images

Catalogue

Two Renaissance book hunters : the letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis ; translated from the Latin and annotated / by Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan.

The See of Peter / [edited] by James T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis.

An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the Crusades : memoirs of Usāmah ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb al-Iʻtibār) / translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a new foreword by Richard W. Bulliet.

Heresies of the high middle ages / selected sources translated and annotated by Walter L. Wakefield and Austin P. Evans.

Lanzelet / Ulrich von Zatzikhoven ; translated by Thomas Kerth ; with additional notes by Kenneth G.T. Webster and Roger Sherman Loomis.