{"product_id":"twelve-medieval-thresholds-j-a-gucci-9781972788097","title":"Twelve Medieval Thresholds: A Structural History of the Medieval World in Twelve Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwelve Medieval Thresholds\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the medieval world not as a sequence of events, but as a network of systems under pressure. Through twelve tightly structured poems, the book models how societies form, strain, and transform-revealing the underlying mechanics of labor, obligation, scarcity, exchange, and collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach poem is composed using the method of Absolute Composition, in which structure replaces narrative and metaphor. Rather than explaining history, the poems enact it: condition, interaction, and emergence unfold through precise correspondence with natural systems such as atmospheric cycles, geological shifts, and biological processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis approach invites active participation. Key transitions are intentionally withheld, positioning the reader as the threshold through which the system completes itself. Instead of asking what a poem \"means,\" readers track what it does-how forces interact, how pressure builds, and how transformation occurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeal for high school and early college classrooms, as well as independent readers interested in history, systems thinking, and innovative poetic form, Twelve Medieval Thresholds offers a new way to engage with the past: not as static content, but as dynamic structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the Twelve series, which includes volumes on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, this book focuses on the medieval period as a landscape of transition-where systems no longer hold, and new forms begin to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. A. Gucci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1972788094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781972788097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pressure System Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d","brand":"J. A. Gucci","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997576081663,"sku":"9781972788097","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twelve-medieval-thresholds-j-a-gucci-9781972788097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}