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Arte of the Booke

Arte of the Booke is a family-run independent bookstore focusing on nonfiction European history and quality historical fiction. Visit us in person at Renaissance festivals across the country.  

Arte of the Booke Art and Crafting VIEW LIST (84 BOOKS)
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
Cosplay Foundations: Your Guide to Constructing Bodysuits, Corsets, Hoop Skirts, Petticoats & More
Opus Anglicanum: A Practical Guide
Paint with Thread: A Step-By-Step Guide to Embroidery Through the Seasons
Kicking Glass: A Creative Guide to Stained Glass Craft
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Natural Kitchen Dyes: Make Your Own Dyes from Fruit, Vegetables, Herbs and Tea, Plus 12 Eco-Friendly Craft Projects
Fabulous Cosplay Footwear: Create Easy Boot Covers, Shoes & Tights for Any Costume
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 21st Century
Tudor Textiles
The Lathe Book 3rd Edition: A Complete Guide to the Machine and Its Accessories
The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
Small-Scale Silversmithing
Sharpening: A Woodworker's Guide
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Arte of the Booke Piracy and Seafaring VIEW LIST (40 BOOKS)
First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand
Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O'Malley
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
Elizabeth's Sea Dogs and Their War Against Spain
Pirates, Buccaneers, the Republic & the Caribbean: Legends and Treasures of the Golden Age of Piracy
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
The Pirate King: The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
Crimson Waters: True Tales of Adventure. Looting, Kidnapping, Torture, and Piracy on the High Seas
Pirates: Fact and Fiction
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Why North Is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came from
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate
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Arte of the Booke Ancient History VIEW LIST (44 BOOKS)
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History
The History of Jerusalem: Its Origins to the Early Middle Ages
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome
Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great
Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World But Were Afraid to Ask
A writer's guide to Ancient Rome
The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny
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Arte of the Booke History of the United Kingdom VIEW LIST (84 BOOKS)
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror in Shakespeare's England
Clanlands Almanac: Season Stories from Scotland
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest
The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy
Disability and the Tudors: All the King's Fools
Irish History: An Illustrated A-Z
How to Survive in Medieval England
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs): A Study in Insecurity
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I
The Lost Kings: Lancaster, York and Tudor
Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
Tudor Power and Glory: Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold
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Arte of the Booke Norman England VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)
The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy
How to Survive in Medieval England
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens Book Two
The Normans: The Conquest of Christendom
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
The Normans: How William the Conqueror Changed Britain Forever
The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . and Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death
The Black Prince
Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
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Arte of the Booke Young Readers and Young at Heart VIEW LIST (133 BOOKS)
The Lawless Land: Volume 1
Velda the Awesomest Viking and the Ginormous Frost Giants
A Dragon Used to Live Here
There Was a Wee Lassie Who Swallowed a Midgie
You're My Little Dragon
70 Tiny Nighttime Tales: Fairy Tales from Around the World
Being Friends with Dragons
The Fairy Song
The King of Little Things
Knight Owl
The Lady and the Unicorn
Little Fairy Can't Sleep
Perfectly Pegasus
The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Once Upon a Tim
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Arte of the Booke Continental History VIEW LIST (103 BOOKS)
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History
Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China
African Europeans: An Untold History
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
Dracula's Wars: Vlad the Impaler and His Rivals
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The A-Z of the Knights Templar: A Guide to Their History and Legacy
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Early Modern European Society, Third Edition
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Arte of the Booke Historical Cooking VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)
The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are
The Cookbook of Julian of Norwich: From Hazelnuts to Pottages (A Collection of Medieval Recipes)
The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
What Will You Drink?: Quenching Thirst Through the Ages
The History of Sweets
Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War
Tasting the Past: Recipes from Antiquity
A Persian Cookbook: The Manual
Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
A Hastiness of Cooks: : A Practical Handbook for Use in Deciphering the Mysteries of Historic Recipes and Cookbooks, For Living-History Reen
A Thyme and Place: Medieval Feasts and Recipes for the Modern Table
Cooking & Dining in Tudor & Early Stuart England
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Arte of the Booke Historical Fencing and Combat VIEW LIST (48 BOOKS)
The Art of Longsword Fighting: Teaching the Foundations of Sigmund Ringeck's Style
The Use of Medieval Weaponry
Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume I: The Fourteenth Century
Captain of the Guild: Master Peter Falkner's Art of Knightly Defense
Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum
The Flower of Battle: MS Ludwig XV13
The Medieval Longsword
Sword Fighting: An Introduction to Handling a Long Sword
Cutting with the Medieval Sword: Theory and Application
The Medieval Dagger
Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a 15th-Century Art
Bowmen of England
The Crossbow
The Longbow
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Arte of the Booke Roman History VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
The Story of Greece and Rome
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World But Were Afraid to Ask
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Caesar's Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Gaul
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
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