A comprehensive history and typology of the European knightly sword from c.1050 to c.1550, that draws on evidence from literature and art as well as from archaeology.
A model of clarity... It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those... Læs mere
An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.
The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. This is the first English translation of a work written from eyewitness accounts and personal experience.
A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers
An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.
This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials.
Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.