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Japan was ruled by warriors for the better part of a millenium, from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. This paperback volume, comprised of chapters taken from volumes 3 and 4... Læs mere
This book reviews business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that... Læs mere
This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life in the reign of Frederick III (1296–1337), a period which saw Sicily reduced from a bustling and prosperous Mediterranean emporium to a poor backwater torn apart by violence and where for an early form of the Mafia arose.
Merchants were the most important political and commercial group in medieval towns. This book adopts a holistic approach by integrating a very wide range of evidence to provide an inclusive picture of merchant society through the lives of over 1400 individuals.
Legal formularies provide modern historians with information on many aspects of ordinary life in early medieval... Læs mere
This pioneering volume explores how people in the early medieval world visualized and thought about gift. The culture of medieval gift has often been... Læs mere
A rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane. The book sheds light not only on the character... Læs mere
The first book in English on the Roman prison, and the first on the Roman prison's late antique incarnation as a penal institution. It describes how late... Læs mere
This is a collection of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries, in honour... Læs mere
This 1999 book explores the dramatic growth of the monastic order in Yorkshire from the foundation of the first post-Conquest abbey at Selby in 1069 to 1215.
This was the first biography in English of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who... Læs mere
This is the first full-length study of the elite group which surrounded King John, the household knights. As well as fighting for the king, they organized his armies,... Læs mere