Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Develops an understanding of Warwickshire's past for outsiders and those already engaged with the subject, and to explore questions which apply in ...

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture. Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is ...

The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede ...

The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede ...

The episcopate of Ambrose of Milan (374-97) is pivotal to understanding the developing relationship between the Christian Church and the Roman Empi...

[This] is a book that should become compulsory reading for anyone studying crusading literature or the use of miracles in medieval narratives. - HI...

This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 13501...

This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love romance written around the middl...

The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introd...

Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He is best known a...

The Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs. *...

The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was ...

Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily L...

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectare...

Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted so...

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but ...

This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth ce...