Medieval European Archaeology

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to th...

The subject of this study is a relatively rare category of artefacts, bronze and terracotta statuettes that represent deities, human figures and an...

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of Englands greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The s...

The Brough of Birsay was the power-centre of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor a...

This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they...

The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the peop...

Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora...

Owned by the National Trust and managed by English Heritage, Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, established in 1398 and suppressed in 1539, was...

Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, span...

Paul Robert Magocsi: A Bibliography and Commentaries provides an introduction to the scholarly career of the world renowned Canadian academic. It i...

It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is ...

The Irish tower house examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology to unc...

Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred-year histo...

In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. The army’s leader...

This volume provides a full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from t...

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the ...