The Medieval World
This ambitious series will provide the student, scholar and general reader with authoritative short studies of key aspects and personalities of the medieval world. The careers explored in the biographical volumes will be studied not only for their own importance, but also for the light they shed on the wider themes and processes of the time.
Below are the titles in this series.
Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200
Sarah Hamilton
Paperback, Jul 2013ISBN13: 9780582772809
ISBN10: 058277280X
During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution. It is impossible to understand the me...
The Cathars 2nd edn
Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages2nd Edition
Malcolm Barber
Paperback, Jul 2013ISBN13: 9781408252581
ISBN10: 1408252589
This book tackles fundamental themes which are as relevant today as they were in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: man’s relationship with the Deity (if there is one), the moral values wh...
Disunited Kingdoms
Peoples and Politics in the British Isles 1280-1460Michael Brown
Paperback, Jan 2013ISBN13: 9781405840590
ISBN10: 1405840595
As king of England, lord of Ireland, conqueror of the Welsh prince and Scottish king, Edward I in 1305 seemed to contemporaries to have cemented an English royal hegemony over the British Isles, un...
Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300 CourseSmart eTextbook
Anna Abulafia
CourseSmart eTextbook, Dec 2011ISBN13: 9781447916802
ISBN10: 1447916808
The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the ro...
Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300
Jews in the Service of Medieval ChristendomAnna Abulafia
Paperback, Jan 2011ISBN13: 9780582822962
ISBN10: 0582822963
The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the ro...
Medieval Violence is generally cast by modern popular media in two contradictory ways: either as a reflection of medieval brutality and lawlessness or as the basis for a romantic life of freed...
Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600
Edward James
Paperback, Jun 2009ISBN13: 9780582772960
ISBN10: 0582772966
“Edward James, an Anglo-Saxon who lives amongst Celts, here offers a sure-footed, clear and sympathetic guide to the complex world of barbarian Europe, where scholarly theories are fought o...
The Devil's World
Heresy and Society 1100-1300Andrew Roach
Paperback, Aug 2005ISBN13: 9780582279605
ISBN10: 0582279607
Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries,The Devil’s World shows how people made conscious choices between heresy and orthodoxy in the middle...
The Mongols and the West
1221-1410Peter Jackson
Paperback, Apr 2005ISBN13: 9780582368965
ISBN10: 0582368960
The Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the fi...
The Crusader States and their Neighbours
1098-1291P.M. Holt
Paperback, Feb 2004ISBN13: 9780582369313
ISBN10: 0582369312
Although the crusader states in the Holy Land were never hugely powerful in themselves, they had significance out of all proportion to their size for medieval Christendom at large, and were the con...
The Fourth Crusade
Event and ContextMichael Angold
Paperback, Nov 2003ISBN13: 9780582356108
ISBN10: 0582356105
Rather than another narrative account of the fourth crusade, this is an authoritative assessment of the historical significance of the fall of Constantinople in 1204, by one of the leading historians...
The Godwins
The Rise and Fall of a Noble DynastyFrank Barlow
Paperback, Sep 2003ISBN13: 9780582784406
ISBN10: 0582784409
The new paperback edition of this brilliant and compelling portrait of the Anglo-Scandinavian world is appropriate supplementary reading for 2nd/3rd year undergraduate courses in Medieva...
'Goodman's book is for readers who want to know what The Book of Margery Kempe has to offer by way of social and political historical information.''Anyone who does not wish to work...
The Welsh Princes
The Native Rulers of Wales 1063-1283Roger Turvey
Paperback, Jul 2002ISBN13: 9780582308114
ISBN10: 0582308119
The Welsh princes were one of the most important ruling elites in medieval western Europe. This volume examines their behaviour, influence and power in a period when the Welsh were struggling to maint...
Crime in Medieval Europe
1200-1550Trevor Dean
Paperback, Oct 2001ISBN13: 9780582326767
ISBN10: 0582326761
In this ambitious history of lawlessness and legal retribution in medieval Europe, Trevor Dean ranges widely across the continent - and Britain. He uses court records to illuminate the lives of ordina...
