Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forev...

This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel,...

Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villa...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

Mapping the Universe presents a multi-disciplinary and multi-author exploration of Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Sphere. Composed probably i...

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

Drawing on a wide range of sources and historiographical material, Between East and West provides a comprehensive analysis of the efforts of the Mo...

The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 14001650: An Interpretive History provides a unique look at the early years of ...

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book,...

Theodore Syncellus was a prominent member of the clergy in Constantinople in the 620s, being a close advisor to Patriarch Sergius. As such he was c...

In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their commun...

One of Britains most enigmatic legendary figures is brought to life in this new account. Cerdic was a Dark Age warrior who founded the kingdom whic...

This highly-illustrated volume, by bestselling author Richard Barber, shows how medieval princes proclaimed their special status through displays o...

In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perellós left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gate...

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europea...