Medieval category: 3965 books
428 AD
An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book V
Justinian and the Imperial Restoration in the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
ON 9 July 518 the Emperor Anastasius died, leaving nephews only as his heirs. The succession was therefore quite undecided. An obscure intrigue brought the Commander-in-Chief of the Guard, the comes excubitorum Justin, to the throne. This adventurer had found his way to Constantinople from the mountains...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI
Western Europe in the Dark Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII
The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VII
The Prophet Mohammed and the Islamic Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
OUR knowledge of Mahomet, his life and his teaching, is derived entirely from documents which have been handed down by Muslims; no contemporary non-Muslim account is extant, and the testimony of later non-Muslim writers has as little claim to consideration as the statements in the Talmud concerning...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book X
The Carolingian Empire and the Rise of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of...
by Dana Munro
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
THE Latin which gave birth to the Romance languages was vulgar Latin, that is, the Latin of the common people. It accompanied the soldiers of the legions, the colons, and the emigrants of every kind, from Italy into the provinces, and thus became the language of the people of all Western Europe--the...
Charlemagne's Courtier
The Complete Einhard
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
*Includes medieval depictions of Saladin and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. It is equally true that his generosity, his piety, devoid of fanaticism, that flower of liberality and courtesy which had been the...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle Ages
Explore the Turbulent Times and Events of This Extraordinary Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Shed some light on one of history's darkest periods.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Middle Ages gives readers the beginning, middle, and end of the era, starting with the fall of the Roman Empire in the year 550 and ending with the Renaissance in 1500, and covers some uncomfortable similarities...
The Middle Ages
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
A brisk narrative of battles and plagues, monastic orders, heroic women, and knights-errant, barbaric tortures and tender romance, intrigue, scandals, and conquest, The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History mixes a spirited and entertaining writing style with exquisite, thorough scholarship. Barbara A....
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world. They withstood numerous sieges until being finally overcome by the artillery of Mehmet the Conqueror in 1453, and exist today as a time capsule of Byzantine and Medieval history....
Creating East and West
Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies...
by Galbert of Bruges
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In 1127 Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins while at prayer and killed by a sword blow to the forehead. His murder upset the fragile balance of power between England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, giving rise to a bloody civil war while impacting the commercial life...