Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forev...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

Why did early modern nobilities remain so powerful? In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, Noble Society in Scotland, to argue that in s...

As a persons religious convictions, especially in times past, can be considered fundamental to their character and behaviour, the nature of King Ri...

Robert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend. In his lifetime he secured Scottish independence in the face of English imperial aggression u...

Throughout history, rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have been a key part of local livelihoods, history, and culture, as well as sti...

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralone o...

The military operations of Scandinavian societies in the Viking Age depended on their ships. Different types of ships were used in order to transpo...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval It...

This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms Renaissance and Reformatio...

Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This...

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a n...

This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of e...

Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peop...

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerp...

A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and ri...

This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at th...

The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. F...

The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeologica...

Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's d...

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most cu...

The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century onwards, Firework Books ar...

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of ...