Medieval category: 3965 books
The Virgin and the Conqueror
The Kings and Queens of England 1066-1603
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
An introductory history of England in the medieval and early modern periods, consisting primarily of biographies of England's kings and queens from 1066 to 1603. The book is intended to provide a readable and enjoyable introduction to the period for readers with no prior knowledge. It would also...
by Evelyn Lord
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Knights Templar In Britain examines exactly who became knights, what rituals sustained them, where the power bases were, and how their tentacles spread through the political and economic worlds of Britain before their defeat at the hands of the Inquisition some two hundred years later.
Founded...
by Robert Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. This was a period in which the ruling dynasty...
The Birth of the West
Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark...
The Faded Map
The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent...
A World Lit Only by Fire
The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
by Adam of Adam of Bremen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth...
by Heinrich Kramer & James Sprenger
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
James Sprenger (also Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, 1436/1438 6 December 1495) was a German priest. He was born in Rheinfelden. He was named in the 1484 papal bull Summis desiderantes of Pope Innocent VIII. Popular opinion makes Sprenger the co-author of the Malleus Maleficarum. All editions after 1519 named...
Aristotle's Children
How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times).
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but...
by Paul Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's assault on Alfred's Wessex. The battle was the culmination of a long period...
King Arthur
The Truth Behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
King Arthur is often written off as a medieval fantasy, the dream of those yearning for an age of strong, just rulers and a contented kingdom. Those who accept his existence at all generally discard the stories that surround him. This exciting new investigation argues not only that Arthur did exist,...
by Benjamin Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Discarding the popular view of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to have been politically successful and culturally adaptive members of the medieval European world.
Re-interprets...
Mercenaries and their Masters
Warfare in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Michael Mallett’s classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context...
by Eric Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1997
The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments...