Medieval category: 3965 books
Justinian's Flea
The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire
During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North...
A Distant Mirror
The Calamitous 14th Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Guns of August—once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe.
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on...
Becoming Charlemagne
Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international...
Lost Enlightenment
Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world....
by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made...
Boccaccio
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Includes maps of Genghis Khan's empire and pictures depicting Genghis and other important people and places in his life.*Discusses legends and controversies surrounding Genghis Khan's life, death and legacy.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Conquering the world...
Saxons vs. Vikings
Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after clashes between the Saxons and invading Vikings.
In 871, three of England's four kingdoms were overrun by Vikings, the ruthless, all-conquering Scandinavian raiders who terrorized early medieval...
The Templars
The Secret History Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years, the tragic...
by Robert O. Crummey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This is a comprehensive account of the rise of the late medieval Russian monarchy with Moscow as its capital, which was to become the territorial core of the Soviet Union. The legacy of the Grand Princes and Tsars of Muscovy -- a tradition of strong governmental authority, the absence of legal corporations,...
by Gregory of Tours
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Saint Gregory of Tours (November 30, c. 538 November 17, 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather.He wrote in form of late Vulgar Latin;...
by Grace Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Here is the dramatic story of the barbarians, beginning with the epochal event that shook civilization and signaled the end of the western empire: the sacking of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric in the early fifth-century CE. Historian Grace Cole steps back and reviews the long history of barbarian invaders...
by Frances Gies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight
Born out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades...
Tales From the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events....