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The Sword in the Stone (HarperCollins Children's Classics)
The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart - ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlyn - who goes on to become King Arthur. "Come, sword," said the Wart. He...
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica
'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS 'Duncan has written a masterpiece - a journey and an investigation...
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine
In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth...
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads,Fall of Civilizationsbrilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse....
Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social...
The Crusader States
The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from...
The Secret Museum
The Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world - curated, brought to light, and brought...
The Story Spinner
A Welsh princess. A Roman general. Their love story lost to time... The land of the Silures, 382 AD A marriage of power. It's 382 AD and Elen, a princess...
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of
From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane...
Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna
Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context...
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union
The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share...
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487
This book offers a highly readable account of warfare in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Battle of Poitiers to the Wars of the Roses. With an emphasis on superb...
Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind
Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the best-known figure of the ancient world- the Roman gladiator Bestselling author Harry...
The End of Antiquity: Archaeology, Society and Religion AD 235-700
Presents a study of the transition from the Classical world to Medieval Europe.
Blood of the Vikings
THE BLOOD OF THE VIKINGS is a five part series, each programme 50 minutes long, fronted by Julian (Meet The Ancestors) Richards, which was shown on BBC 2, last November....
24 Hours at Agincourt
A definitive account of the iconic battle, uniquely structured over 24 hours of a single shocking day - a day that changed history Agincourt was an astonishing clash of arms,...
Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of
Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms,...
Monkey King: Journey to the West
One of the greatest classics of Chinese literature One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre
Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession...
Shadows in the Spring: A brand-new, gripping, time-slip romance,
Two souls bound together for eternity but lost in time. Until now. Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day...
Islamic Metalwork (Eastern Art)
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Whether destined for a sultan's palace or provincial household, a vast array of functional and often luxurious metal vessels and utensils have been produced throughout the Islamic world. Although not...
Joanna: The Notorious Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily
On 15 March 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the pope and his court in Avignon. She was 22 years old. Her cousin and...
Medieval Intrigue: Royal Murder and Regnal Legitimacy
Ian Mortimer considers some of the key questions in Medieval history and rethinks the nature of historical evidence. In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most...
Timeless: A Drizzt Novel
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full...
Haven
'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author...
CERDIC: Mysterious Dark Age king who founded England
One of Britain's most enigmatic legendary figures is brought to life in this new account. Cerdic was a Dark Age warrior who founded the kingdom which became England, but the...
Book Six of the Heroes of Legend: The Mother of Time
In this series opener, Hammer's prose evokes the romantic diction and mythological complexity of the high fantasy genre, sometimes to an eye-rolling extent: - Kirkus Reviews...the author gets things started...
Books One to Three of the Heroes of Legend; Expanded Edition: The
In this series opener, Hammer's prose evokes the romantic diction and mythological complexity of the high fantasy genre, sometimes to an eye-rolling extent: - Kirkus Reviews...the author gets things started...
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold
Sunday Times bestsellers Mythos and Heroes have over a million sales- now comes Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen...
How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe,
An examination of how the Jews real and imagined so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new...
The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea....
Grampian Battlefields
Grampian Battlefields covers a time-span of 1,661 years. It forms an exercise in historical reasoning an d historical imagination. '
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...
Timeless: A Drizzt Novel
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full...
Medieval Women: Social History of Women in England, 450-1500
MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at 1000 years of English history ,as it affected-and was made by-women. Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time:medieval views...
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written....
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...
Troll Fell
Bearing all the markings of a truely classic novel, Troll Fell, is an exciting adventure-filled tale of Peer, his evil uncles, treasure and wicked trolls. Peer Ulfsson stood miserably at...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
Monkey King: Journey to the West
One of the greatest classics of Chinese literature, in a new translation by the award-winning Julia Lovell One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most...
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a...
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators. This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402...
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold
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Sunday Times bestsellers Mythos and Heroes have over a million sales- now comes Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen...