Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to hist...

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as ...

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of paper...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles ...

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Cent...

Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'E...

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and to...

Contextualizes the Czech Reformation in the setting of Prague University. The Czech Reformation offered a radical solution to the spiritual and ins...

One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been mark...

This previously unpublished chronicle from the mid-fifteenth century covers the English wars in France from 1415 to 1429. It is highly unusual in t...

The late 12th and 13th centuries witnessed complete national recoinages in 1180, 1247 and 1279, with the entire national stock of money reminted. A...

Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have...

Over a period of some five centuries, Europe was transformed by the emergence of barbarian kingdoms in the regions of the former Roman Empire. In t...

James V suffered the fate of many a son of a famous father in being somewhat overshadowed not only by his father James IV but also by his internati...

Understanding the rules of procedure and the practices of medieval and early modern courts is of great importance for historians of every stripe. T...

In the pallium the medieval papacy created a mechanism of control over the far-flung bishops of the Latin church, a prerogative by which the popes ...

An anonymous minstrel in thirteenth-century France composed this gripping account of historical events in his time. Crusaders and Muslim forces bat...

Bruno, a cleric who served the archbishop of Magdeburg and subsequently the bishop of Merseburg during the course of the 1060s to the 1080s, compos...

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to...