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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth century,...
Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England
Theology and Society in an Age of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social...
Battles of the Scottish Lowlands
Battlefield Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
This historical guide retells, in graphic detail, the story of nine of the most important battles to be fought in Scotland south of the Highland Line, stretching from Aberdeen to the Firth of Clyde. The battles range from medieval period to the time of Jacobite Rebellion. They show how weapons andequipment,...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present. By understanding history, we can better understand where we are now and what is going to happen in the future. Right now, your child might think it’s about dates and names but soon, he/she will find out that it’s actually more than just that.
Who Wants to Be a Princess?
What It Was Really Like to Be a Medieval Princess
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Did you ever wish to be a princess? Have you ever wanted to wear a pretty pink gown, sing to your forest animal friends, and attend a fancy fairy-tale ball?
Then meet Beatrice—she represents what being a princess in the Middle Ages was really like. Pink gown? More like itchy wool! Sing to...
The Prophecy of Death (Knights Templar Mysteries 25)
A thrilling medieval adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
An ancient prophecy. An urgent message. A deadly plot.
In the twenty-fifth instalment of Michael Jecks' Knights Templar mysteries, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Simon Puttock find themselves surrounded by more court i****ntrigue and danger. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell.
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The Outlaws of Ennor (Knights Templar Mysteries 16)
A devishly plotted medieval mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Separated, but working on the same mystery, what will befall Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock after a devastating shipwreck?
The brooding Scilly Isles provide the backdrop to Michael Jecks' absorbing sixteenth mystery, The Outlaws of Ennor, featuring the ever-popular Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and...
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew...
by Eileen Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
2 works of Eileen Power British economic historian and medievalist (1889-1940)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Eileen Power. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Medieval English Nunneries - Medieval People
by Alfred Rambaud
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
WHO were these Variagi, or Varangians? To what race did they belong? No questions in the early history of Russia are more eagerly debated. After more than a century of controversy, the various views have been reduced to three — The Variagi were of Scandinavian origin, and it was they who gave...
Women of the Humiliati
A Moral Response to Medieval Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This book examines the contribution of women to the Humiliati movement, providing original archival evidence indicating that women dominated the group's membership. These findings have implications for both women's spirituality and women's work, correcting the received opinion that the patriarchal...
Fighting for the Faith
The Many Fronts of Crusade & Jihad 1000-1500 AD
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be ignored. But, as David Nicolle's thought-provoking survey shows, the religions clashed across the medieval world - in the Mediterranean...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Much of England's success in the Hundred Years War is attributed to England's use of large infantry formations made up of commoners armed with the longbow. A variety of factors including...
Framing the Early Middle Ages:Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses...