Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. I...

A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries...

The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabi...

State Formation in Europe, 8431789 follows the formation and development of the European state from the division of the Carolingian Empire to the F...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new wo...

A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced he...

Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglec...

Stevenson and her collaborators have opened new vistas for the historian of the heralds, pointing the way forward to an internationally focused app...

A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted a...

A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine hist...

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history gender, memory and identity and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in ...

Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, and explores the notion ...

How did Scots live and change in the dying days of an independent kingdom?This essential history focuses on society and religious life in Reformati...

The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sw...

Machiavelli in Love introduces a complex concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance....

The Ojoyoshu, written by the monk Genshin (9421017), is one of the most important texts in the history of Japanese religions. It is the first compr...

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...

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the de...

First full-length survey of the fluid relationship between these two areas at a time of rapid change. This book provides the first comprehensive a...

In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the...

This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the a...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagi...

'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIANBefore she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who ...

Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the king...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identityits merits, values, and originsat a time of political unrest and fragmentation, w...

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemora...

The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The twenty-first volume of the Journal o...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power s...

Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era explores vital documents from important world figures from the 15th and 16t...

Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in histo...

Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until ...

Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in...

Medicine and Healing in the Pre-Modern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle...

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformat...