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Queens Consort
Orion 2010; US$ 27.17England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror's queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England's queens fashioned the nature... more...
A History of the Early Medieval Siege, c.450-1200
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00Detailed, comprehensive survey of the siege, looking at its development across three continents. more...
Legal Procedure and Practice in Medieval Denmark
BRILL 2011; US$ 212.00This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Councils prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It offers a broader understanding of how ideology could penetrate... more...
Queens Consort
Orion 2010; Not AvailableEngland's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror's queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England's queens fashioned the nature... more...
The Hollow Crown
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third... more...
Superheroes of the Round Table
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits readers and writers of the superhero genre. This analysis of superhero comics as Romance literature shows that the reverse is true--knowledge of the superhero romance has something to teach critics of traditional literature. Establishing the comic... more...
Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 5001250
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 40.00An authoritative survey of the history of southeastern Europe from 500 to 1250. more...
The Age of Chivalry
Quercus 2011; US$ 29.99A history of medieval Europe from the close of the Dark Ages to the invention of printing. more...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller's Guide ... Ian Mortimer's... more...
Encyclopedia of the Black Death
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 89.00This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors. more...









