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The World of Late Antiquity
These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from …
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The …
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and …
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The Kindness of Strangers
Using a wide variety of sources, John Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, …
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The Year 1000
As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning... Welcome to the …
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The World of the Vikings
Explores the Viking ways with photographs, reconstruction of Vicking ways, maps, antiquites, and history.
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1066
The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings …
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Norman Knight AD 950–1204
Throughout the 11th and 12th centuries the Norman knight was possibly the most feared warrior in Western Europe. He was descended originally from the Vikings who had settled in Northern …
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What Life was Like in the Age of Chivalry
YA. Biographical info. about the era's historic figures such as Charlemagne, Thomas Becket and Abelard and Heloise. 11 yrs+
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The Medieval Village
Exceptionally well-documented vivid study of serfdom, manorial customs, abbeys, village discipline, peasant revolts, justice, religious education, tithing, much more. Illustrated. "...a remarkable book..."?Times (London) Literary Supplement.
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Life in a Medieval Castle
Learn about the facts behind the myths of what castle life in the Middle Ages was all about.
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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel
An illuminating look at the monumental inventions of the Middle Ages, by the authors of Life in a Medieval Castle.
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France in the Middle Ages 987-1460
In this book, now available in paperback, he examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid-tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc …
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The Crusades
The Crusades, as Zoe Oldenbourg describes them, were not simply a religious phenomenon, nor were they motivated by pure aggression. They were the result of an emotional climate which led …
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.
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William Marshal
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. …
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Parzival and Titurel
Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival's growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Arthur, and of his quest for …
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Queen Isabella
In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the …
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William Wallace
This title is a scholarly biography of William Wallace, published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of the execution of Wallace in August 2005.
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Chronicles
One of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, …
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The Devil and the Jews
A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil--literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the …
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Abraham's Heirs
Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this …
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Children's Crusade
The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary episode in the history of the crusades. The pueri (children, youngsters) of 1212 set out to recover Jerusalem and the True Cross …
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out …
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Knights Templar Encyclopedia
Historian Ralls has written an authoritative source book on the fascinating history behind the most famous military religious order of the Crusades--the Knights Templar. This encyclopedia also includes a wealth …
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An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar
A lavishly illustrated, comprehensive look at the mysterious history of the Order of the Knights Templar • Presents the myths and historical truths of the Knights Templar, the elite warrior …
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The Other God
This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late …
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Crusade Against the Grail
The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail • Presents the history of the Papal persecution …
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The Yellow Cross
The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The Cathars, whose religion …
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The Albigensian Crusade
An extraordinary portrait of thirteenth-century Languedoc as well as of the savage war fought within its borders over the future of Christianity In the twelfth century, Languedoc, in the far …
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Black Death
Examines the origins of the Black Death and its spread across Europe in the 14th century. Also discusses its social and economic consequences and effects on the church.
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The Great Mortality
La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled …
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A Distant Mirror
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence …
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Lancaster and York
The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was charactorised by treachery, deceit and some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's …