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;=================================================================================== POETRY BOOKS;---------- Poetry Books ----------------------------------
;==========================================
;----- Chivalry Poetry Book -------
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;------------------------------------------
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;------------------------------------------
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;----- Popularity Poetry Book -----
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;------------------------------------------
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;=================================================================================== LAW BOOKS
;---------- Legal Charters --------------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Codex Iustinianus
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;------------------------------------------ Basilika of Leon VI
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;------------------------------------------ Russkaya Pravda
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;------------------------------------------ Fiqh
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;=================================================================================== RELIGIOUS BOOKS
;---------- Religious Scripts -----------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Civitate Dei - St Augustinus
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;------------------------------------------
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;------------------------------------------ Typikon
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;=================================================================================== HISTORIC BOOKS
;---------- Historic Chronicles ---------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Romance of Alexander the Great
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;------------------------------------------ ShahNameh - Ferdowsi
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;------------------------------------------ Skylitzes
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;------------------------------------------ Vita Caroli Magni
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;=================================================================================== SCIENCE BOOKS
;---------- Science Books ---------------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Almagest
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;------------------------------------------ Isildor
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;------------------------------------------ Ar-Razi
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;------------------------------------------ Book of Souda
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;=================================================================================== ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
;---------- Architecture Books ----------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Vitruvius
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;------------------------------------------ Banu Musa
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;=================================================================================== GEOGRAPHY BOOKS
;---------- Geography Books -------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Al-Bakri
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;------------------------------------------ Tabula Peutingeriana
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;=================================================================================== MEDICAL BOOKS
;---------- Medical Books ---------------------------------
;------------------------------------------ Galen
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;------------------------------------------ Hippocrates
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;------------------------------------------ Ibn Sina
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{bookmilit_artofwar_desc} This work details the military and political thinking and experience of the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu. Referring to this work aids a general in planning his strategy and can lead to an increase in Military Education. Remember: “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”{bookmilit_artofwar_effects_desc} +1 Command, +2 Command when ambushing\n +2 to sight range\n +1 to personal security\n Chance of gaining more military education.
{bookmilit_artofwar} Art of War
{bookmilit_vegetius_desc} Written by Flavius Vegetius Renatus in Late Antiquity, this work has become perhaps the most famous military treaty, and is carried around by any general who wishes to understand military organisation and battle strategies. Organised into four books, it discusses recruiting, training, the use of infantry, siege warfare, and the precepts of naval combat. Studying this work may also lead to an increase in military education.
{bookmilit_vegetius_effects_desc} +1 Command\n +2 Command when assaulting or defending walls\n +60 siege equipment build points\n +1 to personal security\n Chance of gaining more military education.
{bookmilit_vegetius} De Re Militari
{bookmilit_strategikon_desc} Usually attributed to Emperor Maurice in the 6th century, "Strategikon" consists of 12 chapters that deal with the organization, training, and support of mounted troops, as well as plans to recruit peasant militia and a list of military infractions and their suitable penalties. The Strategikon is praised as the first combined-arms theory work. Studying this work may lead to an increase of one's military skills.
{bookmilit_strategikon_effects_desc} +1 Command\n 10% discount on unit training costs\n +1 to personal security\n Chance of gaining some military education.
{bookmilit_strategikon} Strategikon
{bookpoet_Igor_desc} Slovo o pulku Igoreve is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. The story describes a failed raid made by Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich the Polovtsians. The author appeals to the warring Rus' princes and pleads for unity in the face of the constant threat from the Turkic East.
{bookpoet_Igor_effects_desc} +2 Dread
{bookpoet_Igor} Slovo o pulku Igoreve
{bookpoet_canzoniere_desc} The Il Canzoniere, or Song Book, is a collection of 366 poems (mostly in sonnet form) by Francesco Petrarca, whose central theme is about a woman called "Laura" who he saw in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, the sight of whom awoke in him a lasting, pure, unfullfiled passion (as she was married). Within the poems can be found questions concerning the virtue of love in relation to the Christian religion.
{bookpoet_canzoniere_effects_desc} +1 Chivalry. Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_canzoniere} Il Canzoniere
{bookpoet_commedia_desc} The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. It is composed of three canticas, Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), and tells of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead.
{bookpoet_commedia_effects_desc} +2 to popularity (improves public order)\n Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_commedia} The Divine Comedy
{bookpoet_decameron_desc} This collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353, is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love. They appear in all possibilities, from the erotic to the tragic, and its influence will be felt far abroad, as many well known authors borrow from its tales.
{bookpoet_decameron_effects_desc} +2 to popularity (improves public order)\n Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_decameron} The Decameron
{bookpoet_digenis_desc} This Byzantine epic details the life of the hero, Digenes, a man of mixed Roman and Syrian blood. The first part of the epic details the lives of his parents, how they met, and how his father, an Emir, converted to Christianity after abducting and marrying Digenes' mother. The remainder tells of Digenes superhuman feats of bravery and strength: like his father, he carries off the daughter of another Roman general and then marries her; he kills a dragon; he takes on the so called apelates, a group of bandits, and defeats their three leaders in single combat.
{bookpoet_digenis_effects_desc} +1 Chivalry. Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_digenis} Digenis Acrites
{bookpoet_igor_desc} Slovo o pulku Igoreve is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. The story describes a failed raid made by Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich the Polovtsians. The author appeals to the warring Rus' princes and pleads for unity in the face of the constant threat from the Turkic East.
{bookpoet_igor_effects_desc} +2 Dread, chance of getting poetic traits
{bookpoet_igor} Slovo o pulku Igoreve
{bookpoet_guzat_desc} The Munyatu'l-Guzat, or Wish of the Warriors of the Faith, is a fourteenth-century treatise on furusiyya, or 'chivalric arts', and contains information on such things as horse-manship, lance maneuvers, sword, archery, and polo. It is written in Mamluk-Kipchak.
{bookpoet_guzat_effects_desc} +1 Chivalry. Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_guzat} Munyatu'l-Guzat
{bookpoet_minnensang_desc} Minnensang was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany which started in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. Some of those songs were gathered in the Codex Manesse, an anthology of the works of a total of about 135 minnesingers of the mid 12th to early 14th century.
{bookpoet_minnensang_effects_desc} +2 to popularity (improves public order), chance of getting poetic traits
{bookpoet_minnensang} Songs of Minnesänger
{bookpoet_miocid_desc} Cantar de Mio Cid is an epic poem from the 12th century which gives a partly-fictionalized account of life of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid by the Moors. It contributed to the later portrayal of El Cid as a chivalric hero of the Reconquista, making him a legendary hero in Spain
{bookpoet_miocid_effects_desc} +1 Chivalry. Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_miocid} Cantar de Mio Cid
{bookpoet_1001nights_desc} The story, written between 800 - 900 AD, is about the Persian king Shahryar and his new bride, who upon discovering his former wife's infidelity, has her executed and then declares all women to be unfaithful. Shahryar then begins to marry a succession of virgins, only to execute each one the next morning. Eventually, his vizier cannot find any more virgins, so his daughter, Scheherazade, offers herself. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade tells the king a tale, but does not end it. The king is thus forced to keep her alive in order to hear the conclusion. This continues for 1,001 nights with tales of history, love, tragedy, comedy, poems, burlesques, various forms of erotica, and Muslim religious legends.
{bookpoet_1001nights_effects_desc}\n +2 to popularity (improves public order)\n Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_1001nights} One Thousand and One Nights
{bookpoet_rudaki_desc} Rudaki was a musician and poet of the Samanid Persian Empire. His works, both poetry and prose, form the foundation of classical Persian literature, and to this day his influence can still be seen. Any general in possession of Rudaki's works will be more eloquent and well-spoken, qualities that will place him in good esteem with those he governs.
{bookpoet_rudaki_effects_desc} +2 to popularity (improves public order)\n Chance of getting the Poet trait.
{bookpoet_rudaki} Rudaki's Collected Verse
{booklegal_basilika_desc} The Basilika was a collection of laws completed in 892 AD. It built on the work of the Codex Iustinianus, adapting and simplifying the laws put into place by the 6th century Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian the Great. The sixty books of the Basilika have had a profound impact on the scholarship of the Byzantine Empire because they preserved many legal documents. Unlike Justinian's Codex which continued to have an impact in the West as the continuation of Roman Law, the Basilika's influence was limited to the Eastern Empire. This included having a lasting impact on Greece's modern law code.
{booklegal_basilika_effects_desc} +1 to law, -1 from squalor\n Chance to get more out of administrative education.
{booklegal_basilika} The Basilika
{booklegal_codexiustinianus_desc} The Codex Iustinianus, or "Code of Justinian", was a part of codification of Roman law which was commissioned in the 6th century AD by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian the Great. In Western Europe it was revived in the Middle Ages and was "received" or imitated as private law. Its public law content was quarried for arguments by both secular and ecclesiastical authorities. This revived Roman law, in turn, became the foundation of law in all civil law jurisdictions. The provisions of the whole codification, called in modern times "Corpus Juris Civilis", influenced the canon law of the Catholic Church: it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana – the church lives by Roman law. The Corpus continues to have a major influence on public international law. Its four parts thus constitute the foundation documents of the Western legal tradition.
{booklegal_codexiustinianus_effects_desc} +1 to law, chance to get more out of administrative education
{booklegal_codexiustinianus} Codex Iustinianeus
{booklegal_fiqh_desc} A "Fiqh" is a work of Islamic jurisprudence. The Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar is a legal text written by Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence. Due to the connections between religion and law in Islam, Abu Hanifa was both a legal scholar and a theologian, and any general fortunate enough to possess Hanifa's works will benefit from both a more measured notion of justice and a more balanced spiritual life.
{booklegal_fiqh_effects_desc} +1 to law, chance to get more out of administrative education
{booklegal_fiqh} Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar
{booklegal_russkaya_desc} The Russkaya Pravda, or Rus' Justice, was the legal code of the Kievan Rus and later Rus kingdoms. The basis of the Russkaya Pravda was the legal code of Yaroslav, written at the beginning of the 11th century, and the Russkaya Pravda saw consistent revision and development over the following centuries. Though the Kievan Rus shared economic and cultural ties with the Eastern Roman Empire, the Rus' Justice bore little similarity with the Byzantine "Basilika".
{booklegal_russkaya_effects_desc} +1 to law, chance to get more out of administrative education
{booklegal_russkaya} Russkaya Pravda
{bookrelig_augustinus_desc} De civitate Dei contra Paganos, or "On the City of God against the Pagans", is a 5th century book of Christian philosophy written by St. Augustine of Hippo. The main purpose of the text was to challenge a growing sentiment that Christianity brought about the fall of Rome, but The City of God has since become a cornerstone of much of western thought.
{bookrelig_augustinus_effects_desc} +2 Piety
{bookrelig_augustinus} De Civitate Dei
{bookrelig_maqalat_desc} The Maqalat al-Islamiyyin wa Ikhtilfa al-Musallin, or "The Treatises of the Islamic Schools", is an encylopedia of the many Islamic sects. It comprises much more than merely a listing of the sundered religious orders, also including an extensive treatment of problems of medieval Islamic scholastic theology.
{bookrelig_maqalat_effects_desc} +2 Piety
{bookrelig_maqalat} Maqalat al-Islamiyyin wa Ikhtilfa al-Musallin
{bookrelig_typikon_desc} The Typikon is the main liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It contains variations on regular hymns, and includes the Byzantine Rite. Essentially, the Typikon provides the readings and materials for church services, as well as necessary instructions for administering the sacraments, extending blessings, and performing exorcisms. A general in possession of a copy of the Typikon will always have God by his side.
{bookrelig_typikon_effects_desc} +2 Piety
{bookrelig_typikon} Typikon
{bookhistor_alexander_desc} The "Alexander Romance" is an account of the life and deeds of Alexander the Great of Macedon. Though the story purports to tell Alexander's tale, it is highly fictionalized, with each version and copy of the work including ever more fantastical adventures and legends. The author of the original manuscript is unknown, but the story has enjoyed so many revisions, reimaginings, and mistranslations, that it should be taken as a genre rather than the work of some single individual.
{bookhistor_alexander_effects_desc} +1 Authority, +1 to popularity (improves public order)
{bookhistor_alexander} Historia Alexandri Magni
{bookhistor_shahnameh_desc} The Shahnameh, or "Book of Kings" in Persian, is an epic poem relating the mythical and historical origins of the Persian Empire. It begins by telling of the creation of the world, continuing on with the mythical, heroic, and historic ages of the Persian peoples, and ending with an account of the conquest of Iran in the 7th century. It remains a central work for all peoples who reside withing the cultural sphere of greater Persia.
{bookhistor_shahnameh_effects_desc} +1 Authority, +1 to popularity (improves public order)
{bookhistor_shahnameh} The Shahnameh
{bookhistor_skylitzes_desc} The Synopsis of Histories, written by Iohannis Skylitzes in the 12th century, chronicles the Eastern Roman Emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the abdication of Michael VI in 1057. The Synopsis is a richly illuminated manuscript, and as such it is to be taken to be as much art as it is literature, and its images provide a window into the Amorian and Macedonian eras of the Eastern Roman Empire.
{bookhistor_skylitzes_effects_desc} +1 Authority, +1 to popularity (improves public order)
{bookhistor_skylitzes} Synopsis of Histories
{bookhistor_vitacarolimagni_desc} The Vita Karoli Magni, or "Life of Charles the Great", is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, and first Holy Roman Emperor. It was written by the Frankish scholar Einhard in the 9th century, and it is considered to be not only a trustworthy chronicle of Charlemagne's life, but also an excellent account of early medieval life. The general armed with this work will gain a deeper understanding of what makes a true monarch, and through such knowledge hold greater authority over his nobles and people.
{bookhistor_vitacarolimagni_effects_desc} +1 Authority, +1 Popularity (improves public order)
{bookhistor_vitacarolimagni} Vita Karoli Magni
{bookscience_almagest_desc} The Almagestum, originally entitled Mathematike Syntaxis, is a 2nd century mathematical and astronomical treatise written by Claudius Ptolemy. It is one of the greatest scientific works of all time, and cemented the geocentric model of the universe. However, despite this pedigree, by the early medieval era it had been all but forgotten in Western Europe, until it was translated from Arabic in to Latin.
{bookscience_almagest_effects_desc} 20% bonus on trade income
{bookscience_almagest} Almagestum
{bookscience_etymologiae_desc} Etymologiae, or "The Etymologies", is an encyclopedia compiled by Isidore of Seville toward the end of his life. As its name suggests, the Etymologiae contains a wealth of etymological information, but besides this is presented an impressive array of further knowledge from the Late Anitque and Early Medieval eras. Covered topics include: grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, geometry, music, astronomy, medicine, law, the Roman Catholic Church and heretical sects, pagan philosophers, languages, cities, animals, the physical world, geography, public buildings, roads, metals, rocks, agriculture, ships, clothes, food and tools.
{bookscience_etymologiae_effects_desc} 20% bonus on trade income
{bookscience_etymologiae} Etymologiae
{bookscience_sirr_desc} Sirr al-Asrar, or "The Secret of Secrets", is the major work of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī. He was known by his Latinized name Rhazes (854–925 CE), was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. He also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar. Razi's work presents the first systematic classification of carefully observed and verified facts regarding chemical substances, reactions and apparatus, described in a language almost entirely free from mysticism and ambiguity.
{bookscience_sirr_effects_desc} 20% bonus on trade income
{bookscience_sirr} Sirr al-Asrar
{bookscience_souda_desc} The Souda is a 10th century encyclopedia of the Mediterranean world in Antiquity. In terms of its content, the encyclopedia falls somewhere between being a dictionary and an encyclopedia, as it includes not just information about history and life, but also extensive discussions of the source, derivation, and meaning of words. An individual who possesses a copy of the Souda shows himself to be not just a clever man, but one willing to take the time to fully understand the world around him.
{bookscience_souda_effects_desc} 20% bonus on trade income
{bookscience_souda} Souda
{bookarchi_vitruvius_desc} De Architectura is a treatise on architecture and military engineering written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio during the reign of the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus. The work is a major source of classical architecture, providing information on the planning and design of military camps, cities, and structures. De Architectura owes its survival to the sciptorium of Charlemagne, which preserved a number of classical texts which otherwise would have been lost during the Dark Ages.
{bookarchi_vitruvius_effects_desc} 10% discount on building costs
{bookarchi_vitruvius} De Architectura
{bookarchi_kitabalhiyal_desc} Kitab al-Hiyal, or "The Book of Ingenious Devices", was written at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad by three brothers of Persian descent, known as the Banu Musa. It is a large illustrated work on mechanical devices and automata, and much of the underlying ideas developed in its pages may be cleverly applied to construction methods for buildings, tools, and perhaps even weapons of war.
{bookarchi_kitabalhiyal_effects_desc} 10% discount on building costs
{bookarchi_kitabalhiyal} Kitab al-Hiyal
{bookmedic_galen_desc} The Corpus of Galen is the collection of treatises and works written by the Greek physician Galen. Though the works were written in the 2nd century AD, they set the standard for many medical practices and much subsequent research, and a general fortunate enough to possess even a fraction of Galen's work will have the means to set standards of hygiene and health that will greatly benefit any city he governs.
{bookmedic_galen_effects_desc} -1 from squalor, chance to get medical skills
{bookmedic_galen} Corpus Galeni
{bookmedic_hippocrates_desc} The Corpus of Hippocrates is a collection of texts on medicine stemming from the school of the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. The works span a wide timeframe, making it highly unlikely that all may be traced to the actual work of Hippocrates, but the ideas contained within the Corpus are representative of the methodology and thought of that esteemed physician.
{bookmedic_hippocrates_effects_desc} -1 from squalor, chance to get medical skills
{bookmedic_hippocrates} Corpus Hippocraticum
{bookmedic_ibnsina_desc} Al-Qanun Fi al-Tibb, or "The Canon of Medicine", was written by the Persian physician-philosopher Ibn Sina, known in the west under the name of Avicenna. The Canon is an encyclopedia of medicine, including central concepts concerning methodology, basic principles, and common treatments, but also presenting treatises on uncommon illnesses and the various ways one may attempt to remedy them. The Canon, though written by a Muslim, was so valued that it set the standard for medicine in both the Islamic and Christian worlds.
{bookmedic_ibnsina_effects_desc} -2 from squalor, chance to get medical skills
{bookmedic_ibnsina} Al-Qanun Fi al-Tibb
{bookgeogr_albakri_desc} Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik, or "Book of Roads and Kingdoms", is a book of maps and accounts of many diverse peoples written in eleventh century by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri. The work includes descriptions of the geography, people, culture, and political situations of regions spanning from the Atlantic seaboard to the Sahara, and as far south as the kingdoms of central Africa. The information contained within the Kitab allows a general to move with more grace and cleverness, extending his marches far beyond what would otherwise be possible.
{bookgeogr_albakri_effects_desc} +2 to movement points (increases movement range)\n Chance to get the Scout trait.
{bookgeogr_albakri} Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik
{bookgeogr_peutinger_desc} The Tabula Peutingeriana, or "Peutinger Map", is an illustrated ancient Roman road map, including cities, villages, and other stops, along with the intervening distances between these points, and covering Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Persia, and India. Using the information contained within the Tabula, a general may more carefully plan his movements, allowing him to cover more ground than otherwise possible.
{bookgeogr_peutinger_effects_desc} +2 to movement points (increases movement range)\n Chance to get the Scout trait.
{bookgeogr_peutinger} Tabula Peutingeriana