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Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.
A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia – its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography – by the author of The King in the North.
She is but a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guelders, queens of James I and James II.
Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues that in... Læs mere
1461, following the Battle of Towton, Bethany Mortimer becomes a Yorkist spy, uncovering a deadly plot to abduct Edward IV’s brothers. Across a divided England, she and her loyal... Læs mere
RosamondFaith is a leading historian of English peasantry in the middle ages. Her workhas uncovered the basic structures... Læs mere
The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance.
This study of medieval antisemitism and conspiracy theory edits, translates and interprets two Hanseatic letters that... Læs mere
An captivating exploration of the significance of birds and place through Britain's history.
Offers provocative re-readings of five political rationalists in Islamic political thought between the eighth and the fifteenth century.