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For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, bes......more

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An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades. The interrelation of so-called "literary" an......more

An examination of the rubricated letters in the Morte makes a convincing case for the design being by Malory himself. Th......more

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the ......more

Drawing on sources from archaeology and written texts, the author brings out the full significance of trees in both paga......more

Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition......more

A new investigation of the saints’ cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, his......more

A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigat......more

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely i......more

A detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, covering both their military and administrative affairs. The ......more

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. From Cairo, where they controlled the medieval sp......more

There is a vigorous debate on the exact beginnings of the Crusades, as well as a growing conviction that some practices ......more

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500. Since the economic liberalization of the 1980s,......more

The origins of England’s regional cultures are here shown to be strongly influenced by the natural environment and geogr......more

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages. Often fragmented and withou......more

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England. Two separate legal juris......more

Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been in existence since 1972, also available in book form......more

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire reg......more

A survey of the cult of St George in the middle ages, investigating its beginning and growth, and its manipulation for p......more

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in th......more

Argues for a new context for the origins and development of crusading, as an imitation of Christ. For much of the twelft......more

Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosoph......more

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, conf......more

Saints’ cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies. The way in w......more

In the thirteenth century, expansions in international commerce brought a new class of merchants and bankers to Florence......more

Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and r......more

An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Refor......more

Relations between town and crown in late medieval England examined through two of its most important towns, Bristol and ......more

Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic an......more

Anglo-Norman aristocratic patronage of Anglo-Saxon monasteries in post-Conquest England examined. Although the Norman Co......more

This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues on the basis of linguist......more

Helps illuminate Anglo-Saxon social attitudes towards the supernatural, health and gender, and shows how texts can be as......more

Fascinating insights into medieval life. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in t......more

Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and ......more

First full-length study and edition of the acts of the Court of Arches, the most important medieval English ecclesiastic......more

Drawing on numerous primary sources, this volume covers the history of Asia from the reunification of China under the Su......more

Mappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close de......more

The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they pla......more

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteen......more

Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflictin......more

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, a......more

Essays suggest or explore reasons why violent acts might have been perpetrated, and attempt to understand the social pri......more

The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of......more

Suffolk wills of ordinary inhabitants illustrate all aspects of the social conditions of the time. ARCHIVES: The making ......more

From at least the mid-thirteenth century, the Earl of Cornwall, the wealthiest and most politically powerful lord in the......more

Paint[s] a dramatic picture of the impact of the Black Death. Appendices cover diocesan administrators and the religious......more

[This] substantial book...makes an important and stimulating contribution. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Warfare in Europe in the......more

The Templars’ and Hospitallers’ daily business of recruitment, fund-raising, farming, shipping and communal life explore......more

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in mode......more

[This] exemplary interdisciplinary approach to Aethelwold and his impart on the cultural, religious and political life o......more

An interwoven study in many ways refreshing and original... A good book, the first major product of one of the more vita......more

Applies a critical and scholarly approach to a topic that has long commanded attention... Williams’s book represents a r......more

The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant ro......more

Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, togeth......more

The medieval kitchen revealed; facilities, seasonal foods, strictures of the church, and the interweaving of foodstuffs ......more

Deserves a resounding welcome from medievalists.’ EHR This volume contains over 250 charters and other documents relatin......more

Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context. The introduction of Brown’s book should be......more

13- & 14c- documents illuminate religious, social, and economic history of the period. This second volume of the charter......more

Poll-tax records indicate the surprisingly large number of clergy in late-medieval England and suggest the need for a re......more

Late medieval cartulary containing a multitude of deeds relating to Clare and its neighbourhood including the endowment ......more

The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the ......more

Impeccably done... a useful contribution to national as well as local history.’ EHR This volume is a calendar edition of......more

A wealth of surviving documents provide an unusually comprehensive overview of this Cistercian house. [East Anglian] A w......more

Native Irish chieftains, not totally subdued after the Norman invasion of Ireland, recovered a measure of their power in......more

The classic study of the saint’s life, presented with new introduction and bibliography. Everyone knows of St Patrick, b......more

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R. Allen Brown selects original material - literature, legal documents, letters and objects -to present the Norman Conqu......more

Three volumes illuminating the social, economic and ecclesiastical organisation of the Suffolk-Essex border in the 12th ......more

Cartulary of one of the earliest houses of Augustian canons to be established in the diocese of Norwich. The priory of t......more

Covers aspects of the history of both Leiston Abbey and Butley Priory but is chiefly concerned with Leiston as the bette......more

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The introduction describes the physical conditions which led to the setting up of the courts of sewers, and considers th......more