Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment o...

The Italian Renaissance was a period of intense cultural transformations when the ancient world was being rediscovered and a New World had been lit...

Written in the early seventeenth century, the Hustynja Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic his...

Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad ...

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period dur...

Richard III has divided opinion for over 500 years. Traditionally, he has been perceived as a villain, a bloody tyrant and the monstrous murderer o...

Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life. BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The Last Kingd...

A page-turning, laugh-out-loud historical adventure by comedian and broadcaster Iszi Lawrence, perfect for fans of Horrible Histories. Time flies ...

The end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the invading Saxons forms part of the most disruptive period in Britains history. Centuries of relative...

This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the ...

The Anglo-French war of 1294-1303 has not been the subject of a major study since the early 1900s. Recent histories tend to treat it as a sideshow ...

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this centur...

This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750105...

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY The latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the European range and i...

Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japans medieval era was...

The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern sc...

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

The dynamics of medieval societies in England and beyond form the focus of these essays on the Anglo-Norman world. Over the last fifty years Ann W...

Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean medicineFor more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in ...

A comprehensive survey of Muslim Spain from 711-1492. This introduction to Muslim Spain covers the period from 711 to1492, giving readers a substan...

A comprehensive survey of Muslim Spain from 711-1492. This introduction to Muslim Spain covers the period from 711 to1492, giving readers a substan...

Although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner d...

India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Hara...

India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Hara...

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo,...

In the sixteenth century, members of the Ouchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes str...

Florences foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. Its progressive approach ...

The 'Constitution of Medina' is probably the first legal document of Muhammad and dates back to the first year after his hijra (622 CE), or emigrat...

Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly under...

Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all p...

The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of deepl...

Fasten your seat belt! It's a roller coaster ride of history, suspense, and thrills!Rafe Savaryn is happy. He's in Venice writing a novel on the Re...

Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in whi...

St Dunstan of Canterbury (909-88) was the central figure in the development of English church and society after the death of King Alfred. Douglas D...

In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...

During the early Middle Ages ^^ when the Irish Sea became a melting pot of different cultures and a hotly contested political arena ^^ the Isle of ...

What would it have been like to walk down the streets of Viking Age Dublin a thousand years ago? What would you have seen, heard and smelled? How w...