Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to w...

Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German h...

In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mong...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authorit...

An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Bri...

This is the story of the ancient Andean art, exploring the development of fine and applied art and architecture. Site plans, maps and over 250 illu...

Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with t...

Now with a new chapter.The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1...

Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him,...

The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes s...

This volume is an introduction to the fifteenth century through chronicles and personal recollections of a diverse group of its French- and English...