History
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Medieval Anglo-Irish Troubles: A Cultural Study of BL MS Harley 913 [Hardback]
Deborah L Moore (Author)
£76.50ISBN: 9782503554785
Published by : Brepols
British Library MS Harley 913 is an early fourteenth-century trilingual manuscript whose paradoxically devotional and ribald contents display many distinct aspects of the Anglo-Irish socio-political reality of the day. However, several of its text... .... Learn More -
Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology [Hardback]
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin (Author)
£57.50ISBN: 9781501705151
Published by : Cornell University Press
In 1098, three years into the First Crusade and after a brutal eight-month siege, the Franks captured the city of Antioch. Two days later, Muslim forces arrived with a relief army, and the victors became the besieged. Exhausted and ravaged by illn... .... Learn More -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages [Paperback]
£10.99ISBN: 9780241954652
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
This book presents a lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. The story of the wars and conquests initiated ... .... Learn More -
The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades [Paperback]
Paul M. Cobb (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780198787990
Published by : Oxford University Press
In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgri... .... Learn More -
Blanche of Castile Queen of France [Hardback]
Lindy Grant (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780300219265
Published by : Yale University Press
This is the first modern scholarly biography of Blanche of Castile, whose identity has until now been subsumed in that of her son, the saintly Louis IX. A central figure in the politics of medieval Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated patron of rel... .... Learn More -
Medieval Money Matters [Paperback]
Diana Wood (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781842171462
Published by : Oxbow Books
Volume: 9
If there is a central theme of this volume, it is the supply of money in circulation, rather than the importance of money, per se . It was this circulation that determined the movement of prices, of trade, and of credit - in short, it was this th... .... Learn More -
Crusading on the Edge: Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100-1500 [Hardback]
Iben Fonnesberg Schmidt (Editor); Torben K Nielsen (Editor)
£90.00ISBN: 9782503548814
Published by : Brepols
Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East
Volume: 8
This volume brings together contributions from fifteen historians and art historians working on the history of the crusades, focusing on Iberia and the Baltic region. The subjects treated include the historiography of the Iberian and Baltic crusad... .... Learn More -
Orderic Vitalis: Life Works and Interpretations [Hardback]
Charles C. Rozier (Editor); Daniel Roach (Editor); Giles E. M. Gasper (Editor); Elizabeth Van Houts (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783271252
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval history for students and scholars ali... .... Learn More
King John's Delegation to the Almohad Court (1212): Medieval Interreligious Interactions and Modern Historiography [Hardback]
Ilan Shoval (Author)
£64.00ISBN: 9782503555775
Published by : Brepols
Is Matthew Paris’s story of an English diplomatic delegation, sent by King John to the caliph of Morocco in the summer of 1212, nothing more than fiction, or does it report actual historical events? Did King John really offer to subjugate his king... .... Learn More
Late Medieval Castles [Hardback]
Robert Liddiard (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781783270330
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The castles of the late medieval period represent some of the finest medieval monuments in Britain, with an almost infinite capacity to fascinate and draw controversy. They are also a source of considerable academic debate.
The contents of t... .... Learn More
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