Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

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...

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gr...

A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada, the man who inspired the hit Netflix show Vikings: Valhalla. 'The Last Viking r...

Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources, yet this potential has been ...

Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobi...

When the Saxons, invited to settle in Britannia by King Wyrtgeorn, brutally murder the father and brother of Ceredig, the second son of a fifth cen...

Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. M...

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peri...

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist ...

From tall tales of Merlin to the rise of Plaid Cymru, delve into the weird-but-wonderful aspects of Wales!Tracing Welsh history from Roman invasion...

Using archaeological, archaeobotanical, and written evidence, this book explores what gardens meant in northern Spain and northern Portugal in the ...

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Kory dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions th...

A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe to show in exhaustive detail the nature of the dise...

Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages Documentary sources for the Hundred Ye...

Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most suc...

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries si...

This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within i...

What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as i...

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages....

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages....

In over 2,000 years of Christianity, there has been only one pope from England: Nicholas Breakspear.Breakspear was elected pope in 1154, but his st...

Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes William...

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but ...

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1...

Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles speaking...

Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas o...

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtes...

Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the most remarkable but least understood. This is a study of the coun...

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Co...

Swept up in the religious fervour surrounding the First Crusade, Christo leaves his home and joins the Armies of the faithful. Uncertain if he will...