Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

In The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598, Michael Crawford investigates conflicts about and resis...

In Worlds Within, Elina Gertsman investigates the Shrine Madonnas, or Vierges ouvrantes—sculptures that conceal within their bodies complex carved ...

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the warriors fighting on both sides during the Vikings’ attacks on the Frankish realm in the 9th c...

Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of violence and the ways in ...

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European cont...

Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and disconte...

While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and rece...

The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized cu...

This volume comprises English translations of two fundamentally important texts on magic and witchcraft in the fifteenth century: Johannes Hartlieb...

In The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598, Michael Crawford investigates conflicts about and resis...

This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging th...

This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel,...

Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Bas...

Macbeth is arguably the world's most famous monarch. Both the historical king and the literary character have fascinated writers and audiences for ...

The Black Death first hit Europe in 1347. This horrific disease ripped through towns, villages and families. Men, women, children, young and old su...