Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthod...

Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of crusading have...

The Trojan Kings of Britain presents a theory that the legend of Brutus, descendant of Aeneas of Troy, migrating to Britain with many other Trojan ...

An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In the twelfth century, a version of ...

A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later. In around 911, the Viking adv...

The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards ma...

An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources. From as early as the...

A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and the eighth cen...

First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Re...

'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From...

The Christian Topography is the only extant Greek treatise both written and illustrated in the sixth century, although known only through later cop...

First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Re...

Detailed documents describing Richard II's holdings of treasure highlight the magnificence of the 14th-century English court, often underrated by h...

A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of ...

New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John. Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations bet...

First modern critical edition of one of the most important and popular texts on the Crusades to survive. Robert the Monk's history of the First Cr...

Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the 'Lancastrian revol...

First full-length history of the Oromo 1300-1700; explains their key part in the medieval Christian kingdom and demonstrates their importance in sh...

A new view of King Rother in which not only the wooer but also his bride-to-be enacts a quest. King Rother, a twelfth-century bridal-quest epic, o...

The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. This is the first English translat...

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The concerns ...