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Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary and a guide to further reading, here is a comprehensive source book for the study of Western Europe from the 5th to the 15th century. An ideal book for students of history and medieval studies.
This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself.
A lively survey that re-creates the story of the Hundred Years War – the longest war in European history.
This book opposes the way in which, for too long, the whole period of Mongol domination of Iran has been viewed from a negative standpoint.
Early British Economics covers the growth of economic thought in Britain, giving an outline of the economic and ethical problems raised by social developments and changes.
This book is a broadly-cast study of the purposes, methods, technology and mores of warfare among the early samurai, and their relationship to the polity and social structure of tenth to fourteenth century Japan.
This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted.
Christopher Daniell's Atlas of Medieval Britain presents a sweeping visual survey of Britain from the Roman occupation to 1485.
Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts and collated it with the other best known ones.
Covering thousands of miles, Clavijo's epic journey began and ended in Cadiz taking in Rhodes, Constantinople, the Black Sea, and Central Asia.
Waley's introduction provides excellent background information with which to place the Travels in their appropriate historical, social and religious setting.