Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The story of the sixteenth-centurys epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and th...

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction. It was the premier monume...

Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 20022007. Lying just to the south of the ancient ...

This richly illustrated book presents the first comprehensive study of the making and marketing of pottery in medieval Ireland. Focusing on a well-...

Bosworth stands alongside Naseby and Hastings as one of the three most iconic battles ever fought on English soil. The action on 22 August 1485 bro...

The Henry VII and Elizabeth of York marriage bed, rediscovered in 2010, is an exceptional piece of late medieval English royal furniture: no other ...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

This book charts the rise of and interplay between the first Mediterranean civilisations with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycena...

An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283). Spectacula...

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forev...

This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel,...

Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villa...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

Mapping the Universe presents a multi-disciplinary and multi-author exploration of Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Sphere. Composed probably i...

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

Drawing on a wide range of sources and historiographical material, Between East and West provides a comprehensive analysis of the efforts of the Mo...

The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book,...

Theodore Syncellus was a prominent member of the clergy in Constantinople in the 620s, being a close advisor to Patriarch Sergius. As such he was c...

In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their commun...

One of Britains most enigmatic legendary figures is brought to life in this new account. Cerdic was a Dark Age warrior who founded the kingdom whic...

This highly-illustrated volume, by bestselling author Richard Barber, shows how medieval princes proclaimed their special status through displays o...

In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perellós left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gate...

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europea...

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number o...