Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East
Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East By Jonathan Riley-Smith Ashgate Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5967-9 The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith’s work as…
Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages
Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages Edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stober Boydell Press, 2008 ISBN: 9781843833864…
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance By Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Read Chapter 1: The invention of…
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh Translated by D.S. Richards Ashgate Publishing, 2006-8 The Chronicle of Ibn…
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale By Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, Translated by William McCuaig University of Chicago…
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
The Medieval Prison: A Social History By Guy Geltner Princeton University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-691-13533-5 The modern prison is commonly thought to be the…
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Imagine you could travel in time, back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guest house? And what are you going to eat? What sort of food are you going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord?
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia Edited by Thomas Andrew DuBois University of Toronto Press, 2008 With original translations…
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor By N. Harry Rothschild Longman, ISBN: 978-0-321-39426-2 Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the…
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy By Charles Wendell David Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920 This book covers the life of Robert Curthose, son…
Sources on the First Crusade: Insights from Three Editors
In the last few months we have seen three important accounts of the First Crusade. Each text offers new perspectives on the pilgrimage/campaign/movement…