Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The twenty-first volume of the Journal o...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power s...

Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era explores vital documents from important world figures from the 15th and 16t...

Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in histo...

Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until ...

Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in...

Medicine and Healing in the Pre-Modern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle...

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformat...

Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or ot...

Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths o...

In the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant...

Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium takes a fresh look at rhetorical rhythm and its theory and practice, highlighting the close affinity between rhyth...

This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embro...

A detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, covering both their military and administrative affairs. The Teutonic Order was founded...

First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and ...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It c...

This volume examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectua...