Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

A History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria presents a series of biographies of the Coptic patriarchs from the beginning (St Mark) to 849 AD. Ascribe...

Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclos...

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living ...

Overturns the long-established historical narrative about the origins and purpose of the Knights Templar Explains how and why the Templars created...

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (61...

The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of...

Dive into the gripping narrative of The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey that unfolds the rarely told, shocking story of a militant faith consuming...

Joan of Arcs life and death mark a turning point in the destiny both of France and England and the history of their monarchies. It is a great shame...

A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David...

The Wars of the Roses were a series of brutal conflicts between rival branches of the Plantagenet family the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. The wa...

The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been wi...

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England Edward III (13121377) was the most successful European ruler of ...

'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is rea...

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living ...

A BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHICAL ANTHOLOGY FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S MORE FOREMOST HISTORICAL NOVELISTS. Beautifully illustrated with rare portraits, The Wom...

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it wa...

Æthelflæd, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, s...

''The Last Viking is a masterful and pulse-pounding narrative that transports the reader into the middle of the action.'' Carl Gnam, Military Herit...

One of the most enigmatic figures in world history, King Arthur has been the subject of many fantastical tales over the past 1500 years, leading ma...

The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interes...

The Battle of Agincourt on 25 October, 1415, remains one of the most glorious victories in British history, with a legacy that endures today. A piv...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred yea...