Hundreds of medieval books are published each year in the field of medieval studies. Here, we hope to detail as many as possible, and in these pages we provide information on including the publisher’s description, selections from the book, and any available book reviews.
Featured Medieval Books
Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I
The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses
News about Medieval Books
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages now published after 12-year project
The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France wins award
God’s Philosophers: How the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science
John van Engen wins Grundler Prize
The Medieval Churches of the City of Norwich
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton wins 2010 Haskins Gold Medal
Jonathan Ray wins John Nicholas Brown Prize for The Sephardic Frontier
New Book Suggests Paradigm Shift in Understanding of Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
The Northern World, AD 900-1400 – new book examines the arctic region in the Middle Ages
Macbeth: A True Story, by Fiona Watson
Book reproduces famous documents from the Vatican Secret Archives
‘A Companion to Bede’ culmination of a historian’s work
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, 400 to 1550
Carmelite Liturgy and Spiritual Identity: The Choir Books of Kraków
More Books
Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day
Licoricia of Winchester: Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community
Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries
A Companion to Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings, and Spirituality
The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople
An Anthology of Ismaili Literature – A Shi’i Vision of Islam
Patrons and painters on Cyprus : the frescoes in the Royal Chapel at Pyrga
Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland
The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages
The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England
Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Fish and Fishermen In English Medieval Church Wall Paintings
The Invention of the Jewish People
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Mediaeval Colchester’s Lost Landmarks
Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diary of Marin Sanudo
The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis
Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
The Visigoths in History and Legend
Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies: Speaking New Mysteries
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe
The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535
Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death
Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud
Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion on England 1216
The Viking Age: Ireland and the West
The Foundations of Gentry Life
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
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor
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