Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or ot...

Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths o...

In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant...

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting the close affinity between rhyth...

This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embro...

A detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, covering both their military and administrative affairs. The Teutonic Order was founded...

First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and ...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It c...

This volume examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectua...

Alexander III's 1179 Lateran Council, was, for medieval contemporaries, the first of the great papal councils of the central Middle Ages. Gathered ...

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in t...

The caliphs and sultans who once ruled the Muslim world were often assisted by powerful Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and other non-Muslim state ...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

'Powerful' The Economist'Fascinating, panoramic . . . Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She W...

The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscr...

Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural ...

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range o...

In this study Céline Dauverd analyses the link between early modern imperialism and religion via the principle of 'good government'. She charts how...

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Linda S. Clar...

Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period. This book surveys the history of the bailiw...

This book offers translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, almost al...

The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. This is the first English translat...

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with d...

An examination of how the Jewsreal and imaginedso challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiousl...

A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication o...

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The focus of ...

Fruits of the most recent research into the long thirteenth century. The idea of uncertainty forms a major theme throughout the essays collected h...

First full-length study of attitudes to abortion in the early medieval west. When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his u...

An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish ch...

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 2001000), across cultures and regions reaching...

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthod...

Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of crusading have...

The Trojan Kings of Britain presents a theory that the legend of Brutus, descendant of Aeneas of Troy, migrating to Britain with many other Trojan ...

An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In the twelfth century, a version of ...

A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later. In around 911, the Viking adv...

The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards ma...

An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources. From as early as the...

A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and the eighth cen...

First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Re...