Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

‘The longbow’s story is, in large part, England’s story, and Robert Hardy tells it wonderfully.’ – Bernard CornwellThe late Robert Hardy was famous...

Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the V...

Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the V...

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pr...

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social ci...

This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of...

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth cen...

A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famou...

“There are few historians working today who know so much and write so well. Taken together, the two volumes of Henry III . . . set a gold standard ...

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European so...

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their ...

Written as the Lombard kingdom was on the cusp of downfall at the hands of the Carolingian empire, the works of Paul the Deacon (c. 720-799) are vi...

The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and ear...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original “Renaissance man.”Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was among the most famous figures o...