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 (135 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: Volume 1

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Arte of the Booke Continental History VIEW LIST (104 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 (30 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

Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

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

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