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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1999
Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. - ;Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents...
by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as...
Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Crusader King
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart',...
The Franks in the Aegean
1204-1500
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their history is both compelling in itself - these were the last crusader states to be set up in the eastern...
A History of Europe
From 1378 to 1494
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
First published in 1932, this book looks at a period that has often been thought of as a time of general decline in the most characteristic features of medieval civilisation. While acknowledging decline in many areas during this period — the power of the Church, feudalism, guilds, the Hanseatic...
Henry V
The Typical Medieval Hero
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
This was the threefold task of the House of Lancaster: to recover prestige abroad, to restore peace at home, to re-establish order in the Church. For Henry of Bolingbroke the crown was to prove a thankless burden; but his labors were not in vain, and his son succeeded to the throne under happier auspices....
The Wars of the Roses
The conflict that inspired Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
“Westeros is probably closer to medieval Britain than anything else.” George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of ThronesKings who were insane, infant or imprisoned; feuding families, disputed successions and monarchs executing their brothers; exiled nobles, war with France and enemies forced to unite...
FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II
Social Classes and Political Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2016
Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a...
by Jonathan Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumphant...
Europe in the High Middle Ages
1150-1300
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
A revised and updated new edition of Professor Mundy's lively introduction to Europe 1150-1300. It provides a portrait of the social, economic, political and intellectual life of Latin Christendom in the period. Wherever possible the men and women of the high middle ages are allowed to speak for themselves...
Lewes and Evesham 1264–65
Simon de Montfort and the Barons' War
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
At the crescendo of the Second Barons' War were the battles of Lewes and Evesham. It was an era of high drama and intrigue, as tensions between crown and aristocracy had boiled over and a civil war erupted that would shape the future of English government. In this detailed study, Richard Brooks unravels...
A History of the Art of War
The Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Sir Charles Oman brings medieval warfare to life in this epic work of military history. He traces the evolution of weaponry, strategy and tactics from the end of the Roman legions to the final battlefield dominance of the armored knight. Many conflicts are discussed in depth, including those of the...
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes...
Emperor of the World
Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800–1229
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appearing frequently in...