Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Die geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes gehen von einem spezifischen heuristischen Potential aus, das dem ...

Die altisländischen Königssagas sind einzigartige Erzählungen über Entstehung und Etablierung des skandinavischen Königtums von mythischen Anfängen...

The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mezs Renaissance of Islam offers a detailed survey of the Muslim world during...

North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the em...

This volume presents details, images and discussion of the contents of twenty English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s to the 1090s. Foun...

The thirteenth-century monarch Alfonso the Learned of Castile and his contemporary rival James the Conqueror, of Aragon-Catalonia, are key figures ...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the ar...

This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur...

Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tradiert? Antworten auf dies...

Space matters. It situates our history, structures our daily lives, and often determines what we can and cannot do. Borders are central to this rea...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuri...

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various...

Explores state formation, social fabrics and cultural mores of medieval India from 1200-1800. The states of medieval India operated under a rulin...

Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature aft...

Within two years of the battle of Bosworth, Henry Tudor was forced to defend his throne against a formidable challenge mounted on behalf of a ten-y...

Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new m...

Contemporary documents and classic studies follow Edward's fortunes on the battlefield, from failure against the Scots to major military successes ...

In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them...

In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuri...

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...

In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become ...

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 examination of the complex network of relationships and identity between England, Scotland and France in the thirteenth century. Following King...

A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude. King John has been perceived as one ...

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was a distincti...

First modern edition of medieval ecclesiastical documents illuminates the career of a senior prelate. Robert Grosseteste, teacher, scholar and pas...

First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England. The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS Add. 40,000,...

Interdisciplinary study of one of the most important texts of the Anglo-Norman period. When Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum first app...

A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux Tapestry, its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroider...

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research. The long fourteenth century saw England fi...

Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to the Norman Conquest. Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with ha...

The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles. The essays collecte...

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was a distincti...

In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly remembered. The Norman Conque...

A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this...

A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Trees played a particularly important part in the rural e...

Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most suc...

Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare. Selected by Choice as an Outstan...