Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the V...

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pr...

Æthelflæd (c. 870918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English histo...

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) is celebrated as the father of English. Demonstrating for the first time that the English language had greatness an...

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social ci...

This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of...

'A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history: a compulsive, unputdownable real-life thriller, a gripping portrait of ruthless power politics, an...

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy i...

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth cen...