Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Langley ... understands how to excite people about the past more so, perhaps, than most academics -- THE NEW YORK TIMES'Philippa Langley has done ...

For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary nor more potentially disastrous than on the Anglo-Welsh ...

The dazzling new biography of one of history's most misunderstood queens Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - fi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A lasting work of social history THE TIMES ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A lasting work of social history THE TIMES ...

Intended as a sequel to Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020), this survey of the material culture of the city of Rome spans the period from...

Discover the real story behind The Dig, streaming now on Netflix, starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes The objects unearthed in 1939 from an...

Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in...

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to th...

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...

A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called one of the most le...

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making m...

An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.   Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their mo...

From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic Medieval Life series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable...

'To provide splendid settings for their displays of majesty, kings had great halls built, and none more so than Rufus' William II, or William Rufu...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Mi...

This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspect...

This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source textsTinctors Invectives and the anonymous Recollectiothat arose ...

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Mi...

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early ...

Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he st...

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings th...

Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their...

Why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology and a wealth of first-hand e...

The period AD 450-1066 was a tumultuous time for the British Isles, and this was in particularly true of what became South Yorkshire. Existing on t...

Renaissance Mass Murder explores the devastating impact of war on the men and women of the Renaissance. In contrast to the picture of balance and h...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish,...

A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ag...

The year 1066 is a date in English history that changed the way people lived and were governed, as well as transforming the language of the land. A...

In 878, Alfred, king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if he and his kingdom w...

From the first recorded mention of British ships protecting of fishing vessels in the late fourteenth century through to recent controversies over ...

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiecethe Venetian mappa mundithat revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named ...

'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripp...

Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to...

Richard Whittington, known to many as Dick Whittington, was the hero of modern pantomime. Born to a disgraced knight in Gloucester, he travelled to...

Long before European boats reached the shores of the Americas, sophisticated civilizations had already developed throughout the continents. The emp...

Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the course of history in this region of Scotland, and Chris Peers's g...

Through colourful illustrations and accounts of actual sieges in every chapter, you'll discover how armies from medieval times up to the English Ci...

A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edw...