Completed in 1482, Johannes Leckuchner's Art of Combat with the 'Langes Messer' (Messerfechtkunst...

Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as b...

New English translation of Llull's classic and significant text, restoring the nuances of the ori...

The History of William Marshal is the earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight - indeed ...

A penetrating investigation of medieval martial display... The reader is struck by its originalit...

It is a delight to read a book which recognises the importance of warfare in medieval times...als...

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-b...

There are many biographies and articles about Frederick Delius's life (1862-1934), but there has ...

This book provides a comprehensive revision and analysis of Normandy, its rulers, and governance ...

A work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship presented in eminently readable language. MUSIC...

This detailed biography offers a reappraisal of the career of Robert Curthose, William the Conque...

The Sword is closely associated with all that was most significant in a man's life in the Anglo-S...

MAGNA CARTAmarked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and has long been the ...

Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie'...

The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born an...

In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the ti...

The Finzi that emerges from this critically-acclaimed biography is a multi-faceted and complex ch...

Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentiet...

'An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis of an impr...

The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsess...

'Stylish and racy... An excellent book and a delight to read, written with panache and entirely c...

In several decades as a distinguished classical pianist, Susan Tomes has found that there are som...

Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Tey...

When Edward Ironside was murdered in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex. The follow...

Under Philip the Good, grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its apogee....

Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English vic...

Britain's medieval Jewish community arrived with the Normans in 1066 and was expelled from the co...

Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for ...

A reissue of the classic guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of Engla...

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen throug...

The early voyages into the deep waters of the Atlantic rank among the greatest feats of explorati...

This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new...

The patronage of Benedictine art and architecture, and the circumstances that made it possible an...

In the past William of Malmesbury (1090-1143) has been seen as first and foremost a historian of ...

East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed muc...

The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkabl...

The rise of Norman naval power in the central Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries...

'Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has...

Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark anddangerous years of the Wars of t...

First English translation of the chivalric biography of one of France's leading figures of the mi...

Edvard Grieg's 180 songs mirror his artistic and personal development more intimately than any of...

Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London,from the utilitarian to the ...

The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and t...

Laurie Rush, a senior archeologist with the U.S. Army, has assembled a seminal book on the threat...

The Age of Sutton Hoo runs from the fifth to the eighth century AD - the age which separates the ...

The Celts were one of the most important population groups to spread across the ancient European ...

In addition to assessing the significance of Crécy, this book offers new interpretations of both ...

The decline of the Roman Empire was compounded by the spread westwards of tribes from Eastern Eur...