Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

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...

Examination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both E...

No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has pr...

The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. I...

A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries...

The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabi...

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

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new wo...

A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced he...

Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglec...

Stevenson and her collaborators have opened new vistas for the historian of the heralds, pointing the way forward to an internationally focused app...

A new investigation into the twelfth-century accounts of the First Crusade, showing their complex relationship with the Bible. The Bible exerted a...

A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine hist...