Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

This book, analyzing the government of Florence during one of her most critical periods, and the forces that destroyed it, is the first study of th...

This book, analyzing the government of Florence during one of her most critical periods, and the forces that destroyed it, is the first study of th...

Excavation at Hereford Cathedral took place in 1993, prior to the construction of the Mappa Mundi Museum and new archive library. This revealed ext...

This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to th...

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and ensl...

The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the 'Cid' of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of ...

During the period of Mongol occupation from 1258-1386, Baghdad was a site of intense intellectual debate and dialogue between Shi'i and Sunni commu...

This is the extraordinary history of the hidden civilizations of the first people of the South American Andes, with over 200 photographs and illust...

This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference...

Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thri...

In this book, Esther Gitman, a Holocaust survivor from Sarajevo, documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia with a focus on Sarajevo, her birthpl...

The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. ...

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands o...

Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes in...

Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an ...

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of mod...

Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the t...

England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to...

The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.From her childhood, overshadowed by the marit...

One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hol...

Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He is best known a...

In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally...