Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

In the early middle ages the Christian presence in the Middle East took a series of blows from often superior Muslim forces, only for a fresh wave ...

This is the first full-length work devoted to aedan mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dal Riata in Scotland. An associate of the famous St. Columba,...

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY This latest collection reflects the full range and vitality of the current work on the...

A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands'' Middle Ages. ''A sumptuous feast of a book'' The Times, Books of the Year ''Thrilli...

In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldie...

When Hernan Cortes met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peo...

Five hundred years ago, the landing of Hernán Cortés in Mexico marked the end of the Aztec Empire. This volume presents the wealth of this culture ...

This book is the first volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research. It exami...

England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos. The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent feuding of...

Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert the Magnificent, William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent product...

Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Cateri...

A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen cent...

Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . ....

An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon.How did an illiterate seventeen-year-old pe...

Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is ...

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author St...

People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result of ext...

Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is ...

William the Conquerors intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons indiv...

On his deathbed William the Conqueror divided his property between his three sons, Robert, William and Henry. One of them got England, one got Norm...

First published in 2002, and here introduced by Dauvit Broun as a core text in Scottish medieval history, this classic work is considered one of th...

In late antiquity, Zoroastrian exegetes set out to translate their ancient canonical texts into Middle Persian, the vernacular of their time. Altho...