Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Gender influenced every aspect of life in medieval and early modern Scotland. This collection illuminates how gendered expectations and experiences...

King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and ac...

This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a l...

This is a new history showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider world. From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, th...

The history of the Middle Ages [in Ireland] is so neglected that the only figure of renown is Strongbow, the man who led the Norman Invasion of Ire...

Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arri...

A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King Considers the clerical friends of Ermengarde of Brittany, showing how these men enabled Ermen...

This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate...

Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, during the early medieval period (c AD 400-1200), and these changes we...

The forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period, two focusing on texts...

The Long Middle Ages indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to und...

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field ...

This is a book about sea journeys made by brave souls Italians, Germans, Dutch, and English who battled storms, pirates and xenophobia to stock o...

The Damietta Crusade, which is often referred to as the 'Fifth Crusade', was the first of the numbered crusades to be targeted against Egypt. Rathe...

In Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolationinserting material from one text into anotherwhich is often...

Albert the Great (12001280) was a prominent Dominican friar, a leading philosopher, and the teacher of Thomas Aquinas. He also endorsed the use of ...