Medieval category: 3965 books
The De Re Militari of Vegetius
The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian...
by Robin Neillands
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
A concise and entertaining study of the vicious wars between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster during the 15th century.
The vicious wars between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster marked the end of medieval England and the birth of the Renaissance. The end of that thirty-year...
by E H & E W Blashfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
A brief sketch of life in a Medieval castle, built for war and lived in during times of peace. Illustrated.
by David Bates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and...
1494
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."
--Toronto Star
In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells...
by T. D. Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This enthralling, well-documented, and vivid account chronicles the activities of those bold sea raiders of the North who terrorized Europe from the eighth to the eleventh centuries. A dramatic narrative takes readers from the White Sea in the Arctic to Africa’s Moroccan coast, from Viking operations...
by Charles Ross
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1998
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as a ruler...
The Murder of William of Norwich
The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity....
by Ryan Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great's reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal...
(Re-)Reading Bede
The Ecclesiastical History in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the most important single source for early medieval English history. Without it, we would be able to say very little about the conversion of the English to Christianity, or the nature of England before the Viking Age.
Bede wrote for his contemporaries, not for...
Edward IV
Glorious Son of York
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Few English monarchs had to fight harder for the right to rule than King Edward IV – Shakespeare’s glorious son of York. Cast in the true Plantagenet mould, over six feet tall, he was a naturally charismatic leader. Edward had the knack of seizing the initiative and winning battles and is free...
Border Fury
England and Scotland at War 1296-1568
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603.
It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition...
by Michael Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history. Michael Hicks explores the standards, values and principles that motivated contemporary politicians, and...
Castles in Context
Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Castle studies have been transformed in recent years with a movement away from the traditional interpretation of castles as static military structures towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a more complicated relationship with the landscape. Supported by numerous colour...