Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles ...

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Cent...

Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'E...

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and to...

Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritual and ins...

One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been mark...

This previously unpublished chronicle from the mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429. It is highly unusual in t...

The late 12th and 13th centuries witnessed complete national recoinages in 1180, 1247 and 1279, with the entire national stock of money reminted. A...

Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have...

Over a period of some five centuries, Europe was transformed by the emergence of barbarian kingdoms in the regions of the former Roman Empire. In t...

James V suffered the fate of many a son of a famous father in being somewhat overshadowed not only by his father James IV but also by his internati...

Understanding the rules of procedure and the practices of medieval and early modern courts is of great importance for historians of every stripe. T...

In the pallium the medieval papacy created a mechanism of control over the far-flung bishops of the Latin church, a prerogative by which the popes ...

An anonymous minstrel in thirteenth-century France composed this gripping account of historical events in his time. Crusaders and Muslim forces bat...

Bruno, a cleric who served the archbishop of Magdeburg and subsequently the bishop of Merseburg during the course of the 1060s to the 1080s, compos...

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to...

Christian Tobler makes a deep dive into the fighting traditions of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly as recorded by Johannes Lie...

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieris contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times. The...

The index volume of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189. Edited by Nicholas Vincent...

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a l...

Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are amon...

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 ...

Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their mo...

For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the most dramatic, sur...

An exuberant account of the rise and fall of a mighty French dynasty... The breadth and depth of Firnhaber-Baker's research are evident throughout,...

How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea? These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar I...

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...

The mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is richly illustrat...

Explores the role of apocalyptic symbolism in the formation and maintenance of a medieval Islamic empireHow can religion transform a society? This ...

The Displacement of the Body in Ãlfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source mate...

Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin a...

Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past h...

Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 is the definitive source book on the foundations of English public law. A companion to Baker a...

Was Whitby in Yorkshire the home of the earliest English woman writer? Did Roman Britain see Christians martyred at Leicester? Was St Patrick born ...

The encyclopaedia highlights the South Asian country of India with its varied ramifications. As a rich country with all its diversity, it has playe...

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in th...

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social...

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the ...

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial a...