Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with ...

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and it...

Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enli...

A mathematicians ten-year quest to tell Fibonaccis storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician...

Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persist...

Late Byzantium faced economic, political, and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeco...

Illuminates how the ceremonial dimension of death and the succession reflected both Scottish royal identity and a broader culture of ceremony. To...

Contributions to the forty-sixth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the seventh...

This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history o...

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspec...

A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly an...

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied socia...

The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England. Robert de Vere was a close friend of th...

Discover who we are and how we got here this holiday season in comedian David Mitchell's Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a though...

Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an...

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented ...

This book provides multifaceted analyses of everyday interpersonal violence in the Kingdom of Valencia and Catalonia between the 14th and 17th cen...

When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, by a band of Sueves in th...

The College of St George at Windsor Castle was founded by Edward III in 1348 to support the newly created Order of the Garter, and to this day fulf...

Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Irelands great Neolithic he...

The Northumberland Archaeological Groups (NAG) Wether Hill project spanned the years 19942015 and was located on the eponymous hilltop overlooking ...

How does materiality affect artistic processes of object creation and reception? This volume examining carved boxes from the High and Late medieval...

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imp...

London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. ...

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to R...

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade throu...

In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdams seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel....

Key protagonists in these debates included Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli. Today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel,...

Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541) was one of the most important figures of the Reformation in Southern Germany, a leading churchman who turned from Catho...

Twilight of Empire is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use o...

While historians of medieval Spain have been unanimous in acknowledging the significance of Infante Manuels impact on the reign of his brother, Alf...

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian ...

Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overv...

From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulinss Bible historiale was the predominant Fren...

Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as p...

The annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are fundamental to the study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxon period. Ranging fr...

An Introduction to Middle High German is a dedicated student edition of The Oxford Guide to Middle High German (Jones & Jones; OUP, 2019) desig...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Commu...

The Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs. ...