Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries si...

This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within i...

What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as i...

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages....

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages....

In over 2,000 years of Christianity, there has been only one pope from England: Nicholas Breakspear.Breakspear was elected pope in 1154, but his st...

Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes William...

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but ...

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1...

Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles speaking...

Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas o...

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtes...

Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the most remarkable but least understood. This is a study of the coun...

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Co...