Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the ea...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

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Forgotten Vikings provides a chronological overview of the Viking Age (7931066) and quite a lot of history either side of these arbitrary dates. Ar...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A diligent historian and a superb writer ...

Wartime intrigues in France could spell personal disaster for Sir Thomas Blackstone. The latest gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acc...

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphismthe dominant th...

This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly ...

Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, l...

The Sung Dynasty (9601278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase...

This contributed volume focuses on Philippa Plantagenet (13601415), queen of Portugal for almost three decades, and the complexion of the court. Ch...

The wars of the fourteenth-century English kings with France and Scotland resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of men involved in warfare ...

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both preca...

John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelf...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

The Viking Age in Scotland reviews two decades of research that have taken place since the last archaeological survey of the Vikings in Scotland, p...

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerg...