Medieval

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....

One of the most fascinating and hotly contested subjects is Pope Joan, a young woman who was so desperate to squeeze herself out of the status quo that she had done the unthinkable....

This book concentrates on the medical downfall of the Tudors, examining their gynecological history and medical records....

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution....

In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

This erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled....

The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period....

Distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings....

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....

Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt....

Starting AD 400 and running through to the 1100s, historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe....

The Goths are the most enigmatic of all the ancient German tribes....

Cuthbert de Lance, the hero of the story, is of Norman blood on his father's side and Saxon by his mother....

The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.

Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person....

The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....

A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....

This magnificent story of 1,000 years of English history is told through the lives and deeds of Kings and Queens...

This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....

The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world....

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment....

In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the best-selling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians....