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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks...
The Secret History of the Mongols
An inventive translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan 'By the Power of Eternal Heaven; By the Protection of the Majestic Imperial...
The Vikings and their Enemies: Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
The Vikings had an extraordinary historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, colonizing - and their presence was felt as far...
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the
In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....
Great Battles: Hastings
Few dates in history are so etched upon our consciousness as '1066', the date of the Battle of Hastings. And with good reason as the outcome was paramount in forming...
Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, famed as England's most successful ruler yet...
Elizabeth the Queen
In her highly-praised The Six Wives of Henry V111 and its sequel Children of England, Alison Weir examinrd the private lives of the earlier Tudor Monarchs. Here she completes the...
Tula: Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico
Traces the rise and fall of the Toltec civilization, and describes what has been learned about their culture from the excavation of Tula, their principal city.
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle
Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt...
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman
The second son of a minor Essex landowner, John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Prince's wars against France. He and...
Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New
The nine essays in this collection, selected from La theologie au douzieme siecle, inquire into the historical context and origins of medieval scholasticism. They are representative of Chenu's finest work....
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...
Queen Elizabeth I
For more than fifty years this beautifully written biography has held the field as THE comprehensive study of Elizabeth's entire reign- the wars with Spain and the Spanish Armada; the...
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...
Genghis Khan
The first popular biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord. Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals....
Normal Women: Making history for 900 years
The bestselling, critically acclaimed new women's history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 - adapted for teen and YA readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we...
Two Lives of Charlemagne
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Two fascinating biographical accounts of the great medieval ruler Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
An epic account of King Henry V and the legendary Battle of Agincourt, from the author of the bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. Henry V is regarded as...
The Road to Armageddon: The Last Years of the Crusader Kingdom of
The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. The years that led up to the Battle of Hattin in 1187 is...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody
This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...
The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly...
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 Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...
Henry VII
Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king's life and reign, the distinguished historian S. B. Chrimes...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The illuminated manuscripts of the...
Chronicles
One of the greatest historical records of fourteenth-century England and France The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from...
The Vikings
A new and updated edition of this authoritative work on Viking history, from a distinguished expert in the field Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword Far from being just...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
Chronicles of the Crusades
A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary
Asser's revealing account of one of the great medieval kings Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
London
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed,...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
Border Bloodshed: Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403
Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and in the reign of Robert II Involved close co-operation with...
A Bond Undone: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 2
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work,...
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals
He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...