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1. Thomas H. Carpenter          Masks of Dionysus
2. Carruthers, Mary                 Craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
3. Gauchet, Marcel                  Disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion
4. Jolly, Karen Louise              Middle Ages
5. Peters, Edward                    First Crusade; the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other source materials
6. Bynum, Caroline Walker      Metamorphosis and identity
7. Buc, Philippe                        Dangers of ritual : between early medieval texts and social scientific theory
8. Eliade, Mircea                      History of religious ideas
9. Wilkinson, Richard H.           Reading Egyptian art : a hieroglyphic guide to ancient Egyptian painting and sculpture
10. Collier, Mark                        How to read Egyptian hieroglyphs : a step-by-step guide to teach yourself
11. Oakley, Francis                     Kingship : the politics of enchantment
12. Genêt, Jean-Philippe             Mutation de l'eìducation et de la culture meìdieìvales : occident chreìtien, XII-XV
13. Klapp, Orrin Edgar               Ritual and cult, a sociological interpretation
14. Massey, Gerald                     Ancient Egypt, the light of the world : a work of reclamation and restitution in twelve books
15. Hart, George                         Routledge dictionary of Egyptian gods and goddesses
16. Jung, C. G.                            Essays on a science of mythology : the myth of the divine child and the mysteries of Eleusis
17. Barnes, Robin Bruce            Prophecy and gnosis : apocalypticism in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation
18. Markus, (Robert Austin)      Gregory the Great and his world
19. Fowden, Garth                      Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late pagan mind
20. Peters, Edward                      Christian society and the Crusades, 1198-1229
21. Anne Gilmour-Bryson          Computer applications to medieval studies  
22. Shaw, Ian                               Ancient Egypt : a very short introduction
23. Richard Valantasis                Religions of late antiquity in practice
24. Plotinus
25. Mylonas, George E.              Eleusis and the Eleusinian mysteries
26. Ancient mysteries: a sourcebook: sacred texts of the mystery religions of the ancient Mediterranean world
27. Philostratus                           Life of Apollonius of Tyana
28. Schureì, Edouard                  Ancient mysteries of Delphi: Pythagoras
29. Kereìnyi, Karl                       Eleusis; archetypal image of mother and daughter
30. Knox, Wilfred Lawrence      Some Hellenistic elements in primitive Christianity
31. Golden chain: an anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy
32. Karen Jolly                             The Middle Ages
33. Garth Fowden                        The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
34. Cohn, Norman                       The pursuit of the millennium
35. Norman Cohn                        Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come : the ancient roots of Apocalyptic faith
36. Paul Boyer                             When time shall be no more : prophecy belief in modern American culture
37.                                                 Mapping paradise : a history of heaven on earth
38.                                                 Paradise : a history of the idea that rules the world
39. Brian Davies                          The reality of God and the problem of evil
40. Mircea Eliade                        The forge and the crucible
41.                                                 Monks & nuns, saints & outcasts : religion in medieval society 
42. H.R. Ellis Davidson               Myths and symbols in pagan Europe: early Scandinavian and Celtic religions
43. Joseph Campbell                    The power of myth
44. Larry W. Hurtado                   The earliest Christian artifacts : manuscripts and Christian origins
45. Norman F. Cantor                  Inventing the Middle Ages : the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the twentieth century
46. Maurice de Wulf                    Philosophy and civilization in the Middle Ages 
47. Robert Fossier                       The Cambridge illustrated history of the Middle Ages 
48. Southern, R. W                      The Making of the Middle Ages   
49.                                                 The Civilization of the Middle Ages
50. Keen, Maurice                        The History of Medieval Europe 
51.                                                 Secrets from the Lost Bible
52.                                                 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation
53.                                                 Constantine's Bible: Politics And the Making of the New Testament
54.                                                 The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy
55. Norman F. Cantor                 The Pimlico Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages by 
56. Cantor, Norman F.                 Medieval Lives
57. Giles Constable                      The Reformation of the Twelfth Century
58.                                                  The Lost Book of Enoch
59. Greek Thought, Arab Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasid Society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) (Arabic Thought
60. Jesus Christ A Fiction Founded Upon the Life of Apollonius of Tyana, The Pgan...
61. The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites
62. The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ...
63.  The Gospel of Mary Magdalene [Paperback] by Leloup, Jean-Yves; Needleman, Jacob
64. The Gospels of Mary : The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of
65. The Sion Revelation : The Truth About the Guardians of Christ's Sacred...
66. The Gospel of Thomas: The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus
67. The Gospel of Philip : Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union
68. Norman Cohn                The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
69. Jeffre Richard                Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages
70. Norman Cohn                Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
71. Southern, R. W.             Robert Grosseteste: the growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe
72. Marilyn McCord A.       William Ockam
73. Jacobsen, Thorkild        The Treasures of Darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion
74. Dales, Richard               Medieval discussions of the eternity of the world
75. McEvoy, James             The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste
76. Murdoch, John E.         The cultural context of Medieval learning
77. Morrison, Karl              The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West
78. Morrison, Karl              Tradition and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140
79. Morrison, Karl              The Two Kingdoms: Ecclesiology in Carolingian Political Thought
80. Payer, Pierre                  Sex and the Penitentials: the Development of Sexual Code, 550-1150
81. Berschin, Walter           Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages from Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa
82. Brown, George              Bede the Venerable
83. Brunholzl, Franz            De Cassiodore: a la fin de la renaissance carolingienne
84. Chadwick, Henry           Augustine
85. Cochrane, Charles N.    Christianity and Classical Culture: a Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine
86. Courcelle, Pierre           Late Latin writers and their Greek sources
87. Gersh, Stephen               From Iamblicus to Eriugena: an Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition
88. Gersh, Stephen               Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: the Latin Tradition
89. Gibson, Margaret           Boethius: his life, thought, and influence
90. Goffart, Walter              The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
91. De Nie, Giselle              Views from a many-windowed tower: studies of imagination in the works of Gregory of Tours
92. Treadgold, Warren         Renaissance before the Renaissance: cultural revivals of late antiquity and the Middle Ages
93. Barber, Malcolm           The Trial of the Templars
94. Runciman, Steven         The Medieval Manichee: a Study of the Christian dualist Heresy
95. Russel Jeffrey                Dissent and Reform in the early Middle Ages
96. Wakefield, Walter L.     Heresy, crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100-1250
97. Walter, Daniel               A Survey of recent research on the Albigensian Cathari” Church History, 34, 146-77
98. Giles Constable             The Reformation of the Twelfth Century
99. MacDonald, Michael     Mystical Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England
100. Parrish, Fred Louis       Classification of religions, its relation to the history of religions [by] Fred Louis Parrish. Location: Humanities, Social Science & Education
101. Harris, James E.           1983. X-raying the pharaohs
102. Kaster, Joseph             Wings of the falcon; life and thought of ancient Egypt
103. Schreiber, Hermann      Vanished cities
104. Chiera, Edward,           They wrote on clay; the Babylonian tablets speak today
105. Kenyon &  Dame         Digging up Jericho
106. Glob, P. V.                  Bog people; Iron Age man preserved
107. Gosse, A. Bothwell      Civilization of the ancient Egyptians
108. Glanville, Stephen R.    1942. Legacy of Egypt 
109. Wilson, John Albert,     Signs & wonders upon Pharaoh; a history of American Egyptology
110. Cottrell, Leonard.         Mountains of Pharaoh
111. Erman, Adolf                Life in ancient Egypt. Translated by H. M. Tirard. With a new introd. by Jon Manchip White
112. McEvedy, Colin.          From the beginning to Alexander the Great
113. Fox, Cyril Fred, Sir,     Life and death in the bronze age; an archaeologist's fieldwork
114. Dawson, Christopher,   Age of the Gods; a study in the origins of culture in prehistoric Europe and the ancient East
115. Lindsay, Jack,              Ancient world: manners and morals
116. Higham, Charles           Life in the Old Stone Age
117. Renard, G. Fr.              Life and work in prehistoric times
118. Diop, Cheikh Anta        African origin of civilization: myth or reality. Translated from the French by Mercer Cook
119. Baumann, Hans,           Caves of the great hunters
120. Posener, Georges         Dictionary of Egyptian civilization. With the assistance of Serge Sauneron and Jean Yoyotte
121. Gimbutas, Marija         Gods and goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC myths, legends and cult images
122. Thomas F.X. Noble & John J. Contreni    Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages : studies in honor of Richard E. Sullivan
123. Shinnie, P. L.                         Meroe; a civilization of the Sudan
124. Macaulay, Rose, D.               Pleasure of ruins
125. Wheeler, Margaret C.            History was buried: a source book of archaeology
126. Silverberg, Robert.                  Lost cities and vanished civilizations
127. Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir,         Rosetta stone in the British Museum; the Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic texts of the decree inscribed on the Rosetta stone conferring additional honours on Ptolemy V Epiphanes (203-181 B.C.) with English translations and a short history of the decipherm
128. Säve-Söderbergh, Torgny        Pharaohs and mortals
129. Wilson, John Albert,                Culture of ancient Egypt
130. Thomas, Homer L.                   Near Eastern, Mediterranean and European chronology. The historical, archaeological, radiocarbon, pollenanalytical and geochronological evidence
131. Dawkins, William Boyd            Cave hunting, researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe
132. Bille-de Mot, Éléonore             Age of Akhenaten
133. Bailey, James R.                       God-kings & the Titans; the New World ascendancy in ancient times
134. Murray, Margaret Alice            Splendour that was Egypt 
135. Kramer, Samuel Noah,            Sumerians: their history, culture, and character
136. Richard E. Sullivan                   Religion, culture, and society in the early Middle Ages
137. Hayes, William Christopher,     Scepter of Egypt : a background for the study of the Egyptian antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
138. Fairservis, Walter Ashlin,          Roots of ancient India; the archaeology of early Indian civilization
139. Woolley, Leonard, Sir,             History unearthed
140. Tompkins, Peter.                      Secrets of the Great Pyramid. With an appendix by Livio Catullo Stecchini
141. Weeks, John S.                        Pyramids
142. Cole, Sonia Mary                     Neolithic revolution

143. Albright, William Foxwell,        Archaeology of Palestine.

144. Pendlebury, J. D. S.                 Aegyptiaca; a catalogue of Egyptian objects in the Aegean area

145. Ceram, C. W.,                         March of archaeology

146. Hawkes, C. F. C.                     Prehistoric foundations of Europe to the Mycenean age

147. White, Jon Ewbank Manchip    Ancient Egypt; its culture and history

148. Van Duyn, Janet H. Dunning.    Egyptians; pharaohs and craftsmen

149. Wilson, John Albert,                 Herodotus in Egypt

150. Wortham, John David,             Genesis of British Egyptology, 1549-1906

151. Moret, Alexandre,                   Nile and Egyptian civilization

152. Fred Wendorf                         Sudanese Nubia. Prehistory of Nubia

153. Harris, John Richard.               Legacy of Egypt

154. Greener, Leslie.                       Discovery of Egypt.