Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides. 1066 is the most famou...

This book covers a very interesting and informative subject that has never been studied by any scholar before, namely, the letter-bearers of the me...

The second volume in the definitive history of Henry IIIs rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the kings death in 1272   After ...

Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they s...

This illustrated history presents a history of the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages; its creation, its role in the Holy Land and on the shores of ...

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigate...

The church of Notre-Dame is a forgotten masterpiece, its past glory ruthlessly suppressed. The crusaders had brought back eastern techniques to tra...

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European so...

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their ...

This book is a study of all the known schools in the six counties of the West of England, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Most are described ...

How green were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The po...

Written as the Lombard kingdom was on the cusp of downfall at the hands of the Carolingian empire, the works of Paul the Deacon (c. 720-799) are vi...

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvr, a town located on the northern bank of the Kvri river, about 30 kilometers north of Ta...

The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and ear...

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the ea...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

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Forgotten Vikings provides a chronological overview of the Viking Age (7931066) and quite a lot of history either side of these arbitrary dates. Ar...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A diligent historian and a superb writer ...

Wartime intrigues in France could spell personal disaster for Sir Thomas Blackstone. The latest gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acc...

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphismthe dominant th...

This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly ...

Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, l...

The Sung Dynasty (9601278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase...

This contributed volume focuses on Philippa Plantagenet (13601415), queen of Portugal for almost three decades, and the complexion of the court. Ch...

The wars of the fourteenth-century English kings with France and Scotland resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of men involved in warfare ...

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both preca...

John of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelf...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

The Viking Age in Scotland reviews two decades of research that have taken place since the last archaeological survey of the Vikings in Scotland, p...

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerg...

Gender influenced every aspect of life in medieval and early modern Scotland. This collection illuminates how gendered expectations and experiences...