Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfreds childhood have p...

Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteent...

Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan. In challenging current scholarship by exploring th...

The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. The...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment o...

The Italian Renaissance was a period of intense cultural transformations when the ancient world was being rediscovered and a New World had been lit...

Written in the early seventeenth century, the Hustynja Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic his...

Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad ...

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period dur...

Richard III has divided opinion for over 500 years. Traditionally, he has been perceived as a villain, a bloody tyrant and the monstrous murderer o...

Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life. BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The Last Kingd...