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Henry VII

Henry VII

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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...
The Domesday Quest: In search of the Roots of England

The Domesday Quest: In search of the Roots of England

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In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

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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...
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt

A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt

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There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt....
Chronicles

Chronicles

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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

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

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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

The Vikings

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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

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

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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 the Kingdom of Jerusalem

A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of

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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

Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

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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,...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

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Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost Princes in the tower, nephews of Richard III, whose body has...
Chronicles of the Crusades

Chronicles of the Crusades

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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 Sources

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary

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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

London

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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...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

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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...
The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England

The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England

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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

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Border Bloodshed: Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403

Border Bloodshed: Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403

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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

A Bond Undone: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 2

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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

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals

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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

The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

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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...
Richard and John: Kings at War

Richard and John: Kings at War

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Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies and television. In...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of the Troubadours

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of the Troubadours

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A comprehensive view of the mythical and historic significance of the great medieval queen * Explains that courtly love was not a platonic and intellectual affectation but an initiatic process...
The Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204

The Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204

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The Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

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'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 gathering...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
God's City: Byzantine Constantinople

God's City: Byzantine Constantinople

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Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the...
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343

Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg,

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"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...
Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

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When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the...
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes

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Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages

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Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in...
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe

Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central

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Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainthood, in the central middle ages most royal dynasties...
Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt

Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt

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The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community...
The Two Sieges of Rhodes, 1480-1522: The Knights of St.John at War, 1480-1522

The Two Sieges of Rhodes, 1480-1522: The Knights of St.John at War, 1480-1522

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Banners of Hell: Hugh Corbett 24

Banners of Hell: Hugh Corbett 24

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Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274

Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274

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The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought...
Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes

Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes

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The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...
Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach

Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach

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Histories of the Hundred Years War have been written, and accounts of the famous battles, but until now no book has concentrated on the sieges that played a decisive role...
King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled

King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled

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This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The book brings new information to...
Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

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During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects...
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

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Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count...
Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions: On the Eve of the Norman Conquest

Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions: On the Eve of the Norman Conquest

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Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions: On the Eve of the Norman Conquest
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

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Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

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The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children [...]

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For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Murder During the Hundred Year War: The Curious Case of Sir William Cantilupe

Murder During the Hundred Year War: The Curious Case of Sir [...]

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In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. As the case progressed, fifteen members of his household were indicted for murder,...