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She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England

by Elizabeth Norton

She Wolves is a history of the 'bad girls' of England's medieval royal dynasties - the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject...


King John: England's Evil King

by Ralph V. V. Turner

King John long ago acquired the epithet 'Bad', and he is reputed to be the worst of England's kings. Before his death in 1216, his desperate exploitation of his subjects for ever more money had turned him into...


Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III

by Michael Hicks

Anne Neville was queen to England's most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalised by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her...


Edward III

by W M M Ormrod

The fifty-year reign of one of England's most charismatic leaders is assessed in this lucid and incisive work. W.M. Ormrod traces Edward's life from his birth, when the very future of the monarchy in England...


The Tudor Housewife

by Alison Sim

The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife...


SOE's Secret Weapons Centre: Station 12

by Des Turner

The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before. Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way....


The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims: The Earliest Chronicle of the First Crusade

by Nirmal Dass

This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum, the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade. The...


Battle Story: Bosworth 1485

by Mike Ingram

Battle Story is the only series that will ensure you understand what happened and why at every key battle throughout history. These concise and accessible overviews are written by military history experts for...


Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796-1031

by Roger Collins

Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society - when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony - revealing a fuller, more complex...


Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua

by Donald Sanders

In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century....


Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710-1062

by Stephen Turnbull & Peter Dennis

From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks. The tempestuous political rivalries that developed between the different...


Fortifications of the Incas: 1200-1531

by H. W. Kaufmann & Adam Hook

The greatest period of Inca expansion occurred during the reigns of Pachacuti (1438–71), Tupa Inca (1471–93), and Huayna Capac (1493–1527). From the mountain stronghold of Cuzco, they subjugated the surrounding...


Medieval Russian Fortresses AD 862-1480

by Konstantin Nossov & Peter Dennis

Using archaeological evidence and first-hand sources, Konstantin Nossov charts the history of the medieval Russian fortress from its early beginnings until the 14th century.

According to Russian legend, in AD...


Indian Castles 1206-1526: The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate

by Konstantin Nossov & Brian Delf

From the beginning of the 11th century onwards, the constant sate of war amongst the various Indian kingdoms left them open to outside attack, and Muslim Turkic tribesmen began to pour over the north-west border...


Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603

by Stephen Turnbull & Wayne Reynolds

From the 10th to the mid-17th century, religious organisations played an important part in the social, political and military life in Japan. Known as sohei ('monk warriors') or yamabushi ('mountain warriors'),...


The Fortress of Rhodes 1309-1522

by Konstantin Nossov & Brian Delf

First besieged in 305 BC, the island of Rhodes became part of the Roman Empire and was later fortified in the Byzantine style. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, Rhodes was also attacked and...


Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300

by Marcus Cowper & Peter Dennis

In the early 12th century AD a large area of present-day France was not under the direct control of the French king. In fact, the French king's direct authority stretched little further than Paris and the area...


Bread and Ale for the Brethren: The Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536

by Philip Slavin

Despite increased commercialization and an efficient network of local markets in 1300s Europe—as well as significant costs and risks associated with the production, transportation, and storage of food—some...


A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages

by John Hare

Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England—namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury—this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society...


Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death: Common Themes and Regional Variations

by Richard Britnell & Ben Dodds

With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems—such...