European history: medieval period, middle ages

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price.

Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England.

Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England.

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400.

Warfare in the Age of Crusades: The Latin East explores in fascinating detail the key campaigns, battles and sieges that shaped the crusading period of the Middle Ages, giving special attention to military technologies, tactics and strategies.

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

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

In this illustrated book Celtic myths are retold and explained for the modern reader, with personalities and their mythologies described.

The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi's great poem on Muslim mysticism.

The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi's great poem on Muslim mysticism.

When Sybella arrived at the doorstep of St Mortain half mad with grief and despair, the convent was only too happy to offer her refuge - but at a price.

Young, beautiful and deadly.

A look at what world history might have been like if not for the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years War.

In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years.

Previously published as The King's Grave.

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d.

This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722).

New, completely revised and re-written edition.

The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

Monasticism in late medieval England, c.

Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad.

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance.

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.

The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium.

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world.

Examines the works of Paris theologians to show how they dealt with the questions of human pain and suffering.

The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds.

Definitive history of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds during a crucial period in its history.

Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.

This provocative study of medieval Britain presents a groundbreaking theory on the collapse of the post-Roman order and the formation of England.

The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare.

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them.

Essays illuminate a wide range of topics from the Middle Ages, from the seals of an empress to priests' wives and the undead.

A valuable resource on the social and economic life of medieval EnglandInquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval English landed society and are indispensable to social, economic, and political historians of the later middle ages; they were compiled with the help of jurors from the area, as a county-by-county record of a deceased individual's land-holdings and associated rights, where the individual held land directly of the crown.

Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined.

Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined.

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.

One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles.

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.

Presents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and culture, and systems of regional and international integration.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.