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Medieval

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Agesby Ernst Robert Curtius; Colin Burrow

    Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 35.00

    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book,... more...

  • Holy Warby Jack Hight

    John Murray 2013; US$ 27.17

    The final book of the Saladin Trilogy more...

  • Holy Warby Jack Hight

    John Murray 2013; Not Available

    The final book of the Saladin Trilogy more...

  • Bosworthby Chris Skidmore

    Orion 2013; US$ 40.76

    The battle that changed the course of English history. more...

  • Bosworthby Chris Skidmore

    Orion 2013; Not Available

    The battle that changed the course of English history. more...

  • Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191-1571by David Nicolle; Adam Hook

    Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95

    Crusader castles and other fortifications in Cyprus, the south-western coast of Turkey, and Greece are among the best examples of late medieval military architecture to be seen in Europe. These important fortifications, erected by the Hospitallers during the 15th century to face the growing Ottoman Turkish threat, vary considerably from those in the... more...

  • Chivalry, Kingship and Crusadeby Timothy Guard

    Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00

    The central theme of this book is the largely untold story of English knighthood's ongoing obsession with the crusade fight during the age of Chaucer, "high chivalry" and the famous battles of the Hundred Years War. After combat in France and Scotland, fighting crusades was the main experience of English chivalry in the fourteenth century.... more...

  • The Medieval Mystical Tradition in Englandby E. A. Jones

    Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00

    Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The Middle English mystics (Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle) receive renewed attention, with significant... more...

  • Gender and Material Cultureby Roberta Gilchrist

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 43.95

    Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. Women's... more...

  • For Freedom Aloneby Edward J. Cowan

    Birlinn 2013; US$ 8.44

    The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Quoted by many, understood by few, its historical significance has now almost been overtaken by its mythic status. Since 1998, the US Senate has claimed that the American Declaration of Independence is modeled upon... more...