Historathon 2024 - hosted by tenar

500-1500 CE
Q2: April through June.
All books added
The Great Mortality by John Kelly

The Great Mortality

John Kelly

364 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "riches of the East" by Stewart Gordon

When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "riches of the East"

Stewart Gordon

5 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

History of Imperial China #5

Timothy Brook

329 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation by Ronald Hutton

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation

Ronald Hutton

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

704 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King

6 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2000 (editions) user-added

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
The Perfect Sword: Forging the Dark Ages by Paul Gething, Edoardo Albert

The Perfect Sword: Forging the Dark Ages

Paul Gething, Edoardo Albert

265 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction medium-paced
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

720 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative tense slow-paced
Alexiad Of The Princess Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena

Alexiad Of The Princess Anna Comnena

Anna Comnena

448 pages • first pub 1148 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Islam: The View from the Edge by Richard W. Bulliet

Islam: The View from the Edge

Richard W. Bulliet

236 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging reflective slow-paced