Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive stu...

The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scan...

Archery in Medieval England is an account of how archery developed amongst ordinary people in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest. In the 3...

This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in t...

This sourcebook is designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France and England fro...

From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life....

Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The Stanzas of the Graves or Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain,...

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The ...

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of th...

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture ...

The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (341-365/953-975), marks a watershed in the transformation...

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians.In the space of less than 30...

From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, P...

P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings tog...

Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.604), in later life bishop of Poit...

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