Hundreds of books are published each year in the field of medieval studies. In this section, we will list and detail all the recent publications of non-fiction works. Most of the books listed here are from 2009, but we do include some books published in 2008 or earlier. For each book, we give as much information as possible, including the publisher’s description, selections from the book, and any available book reviews.
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Featured Books
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
By Nancy Marie Brown
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Edited by Stephen Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
By Vicki Ellen Szabo
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
By Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
More Books
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague
Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
The Archaeology of Medieval Europe
Students of the Bible in 4th and 5th Century Syria
The Vikings in the Isle of Man
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages
Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century
Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East
Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages
Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
