Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

This book examines the role of the papacy and the crusade in the religious life of the late twelfth through late thirteenth centuries and beyond. T...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power s...

In 1563, the Council of Trent published its Decrees, calling for significant reforms of the Catholic Church in response to criticism from both Prot...

This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histo...

This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor ...

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands o...

The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300620, this volume provides an edition and translation of, and ...

This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantiu...

The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the C...

The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the countrys history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both betwe...

A comparative history of Chinese and Western Civilization from the dawn of agriculture to the dawn of modernity in Europe, China and the West to 16...

In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by part...

The study of intellectual history might be second only to the novel in the number of mournful obituaries it has received over the years. But--if th...

Includes a new foreword by the author The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, ...

Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book prese...

The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the Revolution covers the first twenty years (137797) of Richard IIs reign. This richly-documented period...

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...