Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled ...

In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view int...

The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with ...

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and it...

Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enli...

A mathematicians ten-year quest to tell Fibonaccis storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician...

Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persist...

Late Byzantium faced economic, political, and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeco...

Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To...

Contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh...

This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history o...

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspec...

A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly an...

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied socia...

The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England. Robert de Vere was a close friend of th...

Discover who we are and how we got here this holiday season in comedian David Mitchell's Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a though...

Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an...

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented ...