Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial a...

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gr...

A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada, the man who inspired the hit Netflix show Vikings: Valhalla. 'The Last Viking r...

Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources, yet this potential has been ...

Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobi...

When the Saxons, invited to settle in Britannia by King Wyrtgeorn, brutally murder the father and brother of Ceredig, the second son of a fifth cen...

Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. M...

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peri...

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist ...

From tall tales of Merlin to the rise of Plaid Cymru, delve into the weird-but-wonderful aspects of Wales!Tracing Welsh history from Roman invasion...

Using archaeological, archaeobotanical, and written evidence, this book explores what gardens meant in northern Spain and northern Portugal in the ...

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Kory dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions th...

A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe to show in exhaustive detail the nature of the dise...

Insights from English and French writers on one of the most significant armed conflicts of the Middle Ages Documentary sources for the Hundred Ye...

Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as the most suc...