European history: medieval period, middle ages

One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland.

This groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the 'age of Brexit'.

The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known.

This book explores the connections between space and narrative through an in-depth analysis of the fourteenth-century Middle English Breton lays.

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses.

In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present.

First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor.

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship.

The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history.

The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montsgur to be the repository of the Holy Grail *; Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours *; Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail.

First full translation of an important treatise on chivalric horsemanship.

Valentio Di' Buondelmonte is a Tragedy in Five Acts, in two Parts, based on tragic historical events in Florence, Italy, in 1215 A.

Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'.

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?

An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.

The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages.

In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry.

This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.

Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.

This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.

Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop.

This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society.

A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa?

The Anglo-Saxon era was a pivotal one in England's history, and formed much of the England that we recognise today.

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use.

This book presents a new and accessible translation of a well-known yet enigmatic text: the 'Epitaph for Arsenius' by the monk and scholar Paschasius Radbertus (Radbert) of Corbie.

Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens.

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences.

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture.

Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century.

Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity.

La Generalitat Valenciana de l'època foral no va ser un 'unicum' en la història europea.

New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages.

Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland.

Thought about lying and perjury became increasingly practical from the end of the twelfth century in Western Europe.

Mit außergewöhnlicher Schaffenskraft und immensem innovativen Gespür hat der Hamburger Historiker und Professor für mittelalterliche Geschichte Jürgen Sarnowsky die geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung entscheidend geprägt.

This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstatt-Munchen Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt in March 2012.

First translation of two vivid accounts of French thirteenth-century tournaments, rich in detail and an impassioned defence of tournaments and their importance.

Das Reichsheer im Neusser Krieg wurde 1474/75 aufgeboten, um das von Herzog Karl dem Kühnen belagerte Neuss zu entsetzen.

In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and medievalism discuss how historical and fictional medieval women have been portrayed on film and their connections to the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public life in modern Britain?

This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees.

There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood.

Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past.

The renewal of radicalism maps the trajectory of Labour politics from its origins in the mid-Victorian tradition of working-class radicalism through to its emergence as a major electoral force in the 1920s.