This is the first biography to explore in detail the life of Dark Age historian, The Venerable Bede. Based on the most up-to-date research and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bedes life and those of the monks and nu...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the A...Loe edasi...
A tour of Tudor England through the coroners reports of ordinary peoples various grizzly fatal accidents. A Horrible History for adults by leading Oxford historians....Loe edasi...
The Crusader Storm traces the rise and fall of the Crusader States from the First Crusade to Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, exploring how diverse cultures collided, coexisted, and reshaped the medieval Middle East. Through the eyes of rulers, rebe...Loe edasi...
The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean.Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic hist...Loe edasi...
Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But two...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy, the stimulus of foreign inva...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1951, this book discusses the cultural and social developments in Scandinavian countries from the beginning of the Dark Ages to the death of S. Ólaf. It focusses on the effects of the Viking expansion and contact with other W...Loe edasi...
Originally published as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal...Loe edasi...
A peoples history of Italy from the Fall of Rome to the RenassianceMike Corradis The History of Italy is a popular podcast that explains the history of Italy in an easy, readable fashion. We have taken his podcast to make it avai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526187772)
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbrias epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with Latin Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean under King Henry II (1285–1324). This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with La...Loe edasi...
Andrew D Buck, Katy Mortimer, James H. Kane, Stephen J Spencer, Edward Caddy, Peter W Edbury, Susan B. Edgington, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Katherine J Lewis, Mark McCabe...
This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom....Loe edasi...
Stephen H Rigby, Shannon McSheffrey, Alex T Brown, David Crook, Anne Curry, Louisa Foroughi, Helen Fulton, Martin Heale, Katherine J Lewis, John Marshall...
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives....Loe edasi...
John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A Reynolds, Christian C Sahner, Jack Tannous
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399524834)
Challenges the field of Middle Eastern studies by imagining the history of the region from the perspective of its Christian inhabitants....Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the history and historiography of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the name given to a group of individuals in the late Middle Ages who believed that their spiritual perfection had reached such a state that they were una...Loe edasi...
