Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the m...

A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle Compelling Daily Mail An unmissable read Sunday Tim...

This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries....

This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and...

This book tells stories of interaction, conflict and common exchange between Berbers, Arabs, Latins, Muslims, Christians and Jews in North Africa a...

This is a stunning overview of the medieval landscape of Scotland. This is a history of the forging of the Scottish kingdom during the first three ...

Exploring the relationship between law and society, this classic edition of Common Law and Feudal Society brings a key legal history text back to l...

This book investigates the impact of the ever-changing story of William Wallace on Scottish national identity. Freed from the historian's bedrock o...

An interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britai...

The House of Tudor changed the history of Britain forever. The Tudor monarchs have been immortalised in novels and films for generations. However, ...

Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and manipulation o...

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and t...

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for womens medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous tra...

An avaricious knight errant with a taste for the spectacular or one of the few upright and honest figures in these difficult years?Contemporary vie...

In the late 18th century, Members of the English gentry - a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the ...

Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiqui...

Captivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks an...

The battle of Byland, on 14 October 1322, was a crucial battle in the Wars of Scottish Independence. This absorbing study from Harry Pearson sheds ...

A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health we...

Since its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt cover the entire c...

Contains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood. 'My honoure...

Documents a long-running dispute between the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s. For fifteen years the monks of Ch...

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1450, was one of enormous change in the way people lived in their houses. Medieval people could call...