Medieval category: 3965 books
by H. J. Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Edward, the Black Prince, is one of the legendary figures of English history. The first son of Edward III and an outstanding military leader, he is famous for his decisive victory at the Battle of Poitiers, and he is one of the most charismatic characters of the Hundred Years' War. This classic study...
Indian Castles 1206–1526
The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
From the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD northern India began to fall under the sway of a number of Muslim-Turkic rulers who, at the start of the 13th century, founded the series of dynasties known to history as the Delhi Sultanate. For three centuries these sultans expanded their territory, which...
Neighboring Faiths
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought...
Rewriting Magic
An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both...
by Helen Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience. Putting...
The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk
How the Knights of France Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Franco-Flemish region of medieval Flanders was a locus of important trade routes in the 13th and 14th centuries. Located in a prime position between the Holy Roman Empire and the North Sea (present-day northern Belgium), the urban centers of the region were surpassed in population only by the...
From Bannockburn to Flodden
Wallace, Bruce, and the Heroes of Medieval Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2000
The first portion of the classic volume written by Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, covering the history of Scotland up to Scott's time.
by Viscount James Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
The main object of this book is to describe the Holy Roman Empire as an institution or system, the wonderful offspring of a body of beliefs and traditions which have passed away from the world. Such a description, however, would not be intelligible without some account of the great events which accompanied...
Middle English Marvels
Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.
Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance...
by Susan Wittig
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical...
Vikings and Goths
A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent’s western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road...
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious
Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. The ninth century gave birth to a new revival of secular biography, which has come to be recognized as one of the brightest bands in the spectrum of Carolingian historical writing....
by Hyun Jin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered...