Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Albert the Great (1200–1280) was a prominent Dominican friar, a leading philosopher, and the teacher of Thomas Aquinas. He also endorsed the use of...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was se...

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 mathematician’s ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci’s storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematici...