Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author St...

People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result of ext...

Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is ...

William the Conquerors intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons indiv...

On his deathbed William the Conqueror divided his property between his three sons, Robert, William and Henry. One of them got England, one got Norm...

First published in 2002, and here introduced by Dauvit Broun as a core text in Scottish medieval history, this classic work is considered one of th...

In late antiquity, Zoroastrian exegetes set out to translate their ancient canonical texts into Middle Persian, the vernacular of their time. Altho...

The bloody Albigensian Crusade launched against the Cathar heretics of southern France in the early thirteenth century is infamous for its brutalit...

In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 3...

The Battle of Hastings is one of the key events in the history of the British Isles. This book is not merely another attempt to describe what happe...

The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as...

The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Ev...

The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanis...

This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of England and the loss ...

Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present was published in five volumes in 1995 as a collaboration between the University of Dundee and the Ope...

Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English victory at Poitiers. David Preest's new translation i...

Henry V''s English army triumphed over the French at Agincourt in northern France on 25 October 1415 in one of the defining battles of the Hundred ...

The roots of England lie within the fertile soil of its earliest kingdom, that of the people of Kent. Here, for a brief moment under King Æthelbert...

The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richards last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight kno...

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotlands turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of...

The Knights Templar were among the most famous of Christian military orders. Created after the First Crusade of 1096 and endorsed by the Catholic C...

Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was t...

The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The engagement w...

Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first...

Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, r...

Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols which have been discovered on various items across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive interpretatio...

The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and ...

The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the na...

Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. AEthelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one...

_The Military History of Late Rome 518-565_ provides a new, fresh analysis of the revival of Roman fortunes during the reigns of Justin I (518-527)...

This is a comprehensive study of the surviving monuments of the Qarakhanids - an important yet little-known medieval dynasty that ruled much of Cen...

Examining a single broad tribal identity - al-Azd - from the immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it w...

In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such ...

The bestselling historian tells the story of the landscapes, peoples and culture of early medieval Britain in eight walks, an epic sea voyage and a...

A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in t...

A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in t...

The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the ...

This book tells a history of Ireland through the examination of 100 key words from the Royal Irish Academys Dictionary of the Irish Language, the m...

Owners of estates and titles in the peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland were more, rather than less, likely than ordinary people to experienc...

Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read. —Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification i...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, ...