European history: medieval period, middle ages

Essays in this fascinating and important collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late medieval England.

Goldin's study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years.

This book explores the relationship between the papacy and reform against the backdrop of social and religious change in later tenth and eleventh-century Europe.

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

New, completely revised and re-written edition.

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years?

This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England.

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.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century provides the first analysis of UK-Africa policy in the era of austerity, Conservative government and Brexit.

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century provides the first analysis of UK-Africa policy in the era of austerity, Conservative government and Brexit.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s.

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s.

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all.

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all.

Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels.

Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia.

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War.

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War.

The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining.

The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations.

The international exhibitions held around the world between 1851 and 1939 were spectacular gestures, which briefly held the attention of the world before disappearing into an abrupt oblivion, of the victims of their planned temporality.

John Wyclif (d.

John Wyclif (d.

This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland.

This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland.

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom.

Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War.

Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War.

The Reformation transformed English religion.

This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.

This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc.

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.

The saints' Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

The Annals of Fulda are the principal narrative source written from a perspective east of the Rhine for the period in which the Carolingian Empire gave way to a number of successor kingdoms, including the one which was to become Germany.

The Annals of St-Bertin, covering the years 830 to 882, are the main narrative source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century.

This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society.

Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive.

The long-awaited prequel to Chronicles of the revolution covers the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II's reign.

This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction.

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame.

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame.

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

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