Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church
Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church By Karen George Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834359 Gildas’s De excidio Britonum is…
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World Edited by Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila Williamson Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834328 The way in…
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food By John Dickie Free Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7432-7799-0 From the bustle of medieval…
Interview with Lisa Jefferson
Medieval London was a centre of business and trade, and its various guilds were important civic and economic institutions. For those who are…
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages Edited by Stephen Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby Routledge, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-415-77053-8 Interest in the middle ages is at…
Interview with Stephen Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby
For any medieval scholar, this Misconceptions About the Middle Ages is a welcome addition to the bookshelf. It is an attempt by historians…
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world By Thor Ewing Termpus Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-0752435909 What was paganism really like? Who…
Interview with Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
His latest book is The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale. We interviewed him by email to discuss his book and research.
Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture
Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture Edited by Kimberly Besio and Constantine Tung State University of New York Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7914-7011-4 A multi-disciplinary…
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic By Vicki Ellen Szabo Published by Brill (Series: The Northern World),…
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance By Christopher MacEvitt University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-8122-4050-4 In the wake…
The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London
The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London: An Edition and Translation By Lisa Jefferson Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6404-8 As the…
Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages
Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl Edited by Martin Brett…
Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century
Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century By Giles Constable Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6523-6 Crusading in the twelfth century was less a…
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World By Anthony Cutler Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5949-5 In this third collection…
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…
