Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

First full-length study of the campaigns led by Henry of Lancaster in Aquitaine, including a detailed biographical study of the individuals involve...

A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History This volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area. It begins with...

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England. Two separate legal jurisdictions concerned with fa...

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search...

First full-length study of the campaigns led by Henry of Lancaster in Aquitaine, including a detailed biographical study of the individuals involve...

The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-ye...

First modern edition of an undeservedly neglected account of the events of the First Crusade. Baldric of Bourgeil's Historia Ierosolimitana is a f...

The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges rebor...

A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication o...

A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. This well-illustrated book provides an up...

Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Gre...

An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications. More charters survive from A...

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For peop...

This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's firs...

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive persp...

A new account of the life and turbulent times of Joan, the wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II. Anthony Goodman's brilliant yet acce...

New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita. The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for ...

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

An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth ce...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...