A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette.
A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary.
A magisterial survey of Normandy from its origins in the tenth century to its conquest some two hundred years later.
An eyewitness account of one of the greatest-ever battles as a few men under the Knights of St John took on a huge Turkish armada.
The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.
A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.
New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.
Essays on the most important aspects of Kent's history at a time of great growth and change.
'It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.
Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English victory at Poitiers. David Preest's new translation includes extensive notes and an introduction by Richard Barber.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.