European history: medieval period, middle ages

Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds.

This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage.

This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage.

This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster - traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament - became the seat of the successive, non-monarchical regimes of the 1640s and 1650s.

This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster - traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament - became the seat of the successive, non-monarchical regimes of the 1640s and 1650s.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy.

This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity.

This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity.

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine.

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine.

Peasants and historians is an examination of historical discussion of the medieval English peasantry.

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639.

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639.

Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination.

Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination.

Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.

Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.

England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history.

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.

The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician.

In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce is the gripping tale of the 13th century rebellion of the people of Scotland.

Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists.

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The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of such men as Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine outlines Augustine''s sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.

Soon after meeting near the famed city of love, Paris, Heloiseand Abelard fall into a deep and passionate love.

'She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience .

'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.

'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun.

An authoritative history of the Knights of St.

An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae.

King Henry V saw his reign and military efforts in France as a holy crusade to reclaim the French throne for his ancestors.

What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between late antiquity and the Middle Ages?

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts.

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.

This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy.

The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired for its morally complex plot and brilliant poetics.

The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula.

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana.

Our understanding of Celtic astrology is based mainly on the speculations of modern authors--mostly drawn from classical Greek and Roman writings--and suffers from many misconceptions.

Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god.