Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive stu...

The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scan...

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 3...

This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in t...

This sourcebook is designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France and England fro...

From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life....

Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The Stanzas of the Graves or Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain,...

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The ...

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of th...

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture ...

The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (341-365/953-975), marks a watershed in the transformation...

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians.In the space of less than 30...

From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, P...

P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings tog...

Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poit...

State Formation in Europe, 8431789 follows the formation and development of the European state from the division of the Carolingian Empire to the F...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince...

A major contribution to scholarship on medieval roll cartularies, shedding light both on the Aynho Cartulary itself and on the wider social, politi...

The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoards discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research ...

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe bet...

The Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine empire was placed rather uneasily between western Christendom and the Islamic world during the Crusade era....

A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russias destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasio...

This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described...

This is the first study specifically concerned with thirteenth-century pipe rolls and shows how pipe rolls were compiled, what they contain, and ho...

This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described...

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require ...

Norfolk's churches are home to some of the highest-quality and best-preserved medieval stained glass in Britain. Panels produced in the county's ex...

Sermones Contra Hereticos presents an edition and translation of a group of mostly unpublished Latin sermons which were originally preached in the ...

Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have neve...

Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. King's distinct but interlocking...

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty,...

The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presente...

These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Franki...

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

Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to hist...

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as ...

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of paper...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...