4,643円 Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throneーRichard...

200円 Many feet have trampled Rhodes over the millennia and it had served many masters until it finally gained union with Greece only in 1947, The island is rich with historical interest from the old medieval fortress town of Rhodes with its powerful connection to the Knights Hospitallers of St John to...

1,126円 The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage ...

6,103円 This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a group of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the Trastamara and Braganza dynasties of the mid-fifteenth century. The book is planned as a series of essays on the main chronological perio...

2,765円 A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome. The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass ...

2,750円 There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordi...

2,102円 Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword 'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life toda...

2,102円 The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.

3,040円 The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contempora...

9,616円 The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment sh...

827円 Teutonic Myth and Legend by Donald MacKenzie is an expansive tome of Northern European mythology, including the Story of Creation, the Story of the Volsungs, and the Nibelungs. This edition is specially formatted with original illustrations, and a Table of Contents.

249円 Hugues de Lemme est un fin connaisseur du Moyen-Age français. Issu d'une vieille lignée dauphinoise, iil essaye de transmettre à ses deux fils l'histoire familiale, régionale et nationale, sous forme romancée. Il a mis au point, au cours des années, po...