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Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.35A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
The Tudor Arte of Warre 1485-1558: The Conduct of War from Henry VII to Mary I by Jonathan Davies 9781913336417
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $48.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336417Author Jonathan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood Tom Licence 9780300260823
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.35An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward's bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular attention."-Leanda de Lisle, The Times"This fine biography... -
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.29The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic... -
The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.29'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALD AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King... -
The Battle of Maldon: War and Peace in Tenth-Century England by Mark Atherton 9781350134034
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.83Depicting one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, The Battle of Maldon immortalises the bloody fight that took place along the banks of the tidal river Blackwater in 991, poignantly expressing the lore and language of a determined nation... -
Edward IV: Glorious Son of York Jeffrey James 9781445660257
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $15.76Few English monarchs had to fight harder for the right to rule than King Edward IV - Shakespeare's glorious son of York. Cast in the Plantagenet mould, over six feet tall, he was a naturally charismatic leader. Edward had the knack of seizing the... -
The Wild Hunt: Book 1 in the Wild Hunt series Elizabeth Chadwick 9780751540260
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.69'An author who makes history come gloriously alive'The Times Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling, award-winning first novel, and the start of the beloved Wild Hunt series.In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered,... -
The Vikings in Britain and Ireland Jayne Carroll 9780714128313
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86For nearly three hundred years, the Vikings set out on voyages from Scandinavia reaching every corner of the northern world. As raiders, traders, explorers and colonizers, they had a profound impact on those cultures with which they came into contact... -
Cnut (Penguin Monarchs): The North Sea King by Ryan Lavelle
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.72'A reputation as a ruthless ruler was sealed that would last beyond his lifetime. In that respect, at least, Cnut had succeeded...'Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long... -
Oathbound by Richard Cullen
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2022. An action-packed historical novel featuring Danish warrior Styrkar, and his journey through the violent Norman Conquest as he fights for vengeance. The champion of a dead king has nothing... -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens Lisa Hilton 9780753826119
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.20England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages... -
History Of The Cathars, A Pocket Essential Short by Sean Martin 9780857303097
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.62Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting and non-violence. They... -
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies 9780060908805
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060908805Author Frances GiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Dr Michael Livingston
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series Late in AD 937, four armies met at Brunanburh. On one side stood... -
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 Ce by Robin Fleming
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.59Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of... -
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages by Guy Halsall
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.94King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied... -
Anglo-Saxon England: 400-790 by Sally Crawford
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.86The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was beginning to move towards urbanisation, establishing... -
CERDIC: Mysterious Dark Age king who founded England by Paul Harper 9781399037280
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.63One of Britain’s most enigmatic legendary figures is brought to life in this new account. Cerdic was a Dark Age warrior who founded the kingdom which became England, but the circumstances of his reign amid the collapse of the Western Roman Empire have... -
Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages by Ann Baer
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.79A year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife, and her extended family. Based on years of research, Ann Baer brings to life the reality of a world that has been... -
Killer of Kings Matthew Harffy 9781786696267
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01AD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens. But before Beobrand can embark on his bloodfeud, King Oswald orders him southward, to escort... -
The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from King Alfred to Magna Carta John Hudson (St Andrews University, UK) 9781138189348
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $81.12The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medieval history. This much expanded second edition spans the centuries from King Alfred to Magna Carta,... -
A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages S. H. Rigby (Univeristy of Manchester, UK) 9781405189736
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $78.92This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and WalesProvides a guide to... -
Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions: Killiecrankie to Culloden by Jonathan Oates 9781526735515
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.22Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 - and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described... -
Shield Breaker by Richard Cullen
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.29Styrkar the warrior sails to dangerous lands in this thrilling new historical adventure from Richard Cullen. The sequel to Oath Bound, longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2022. England, 1068: a land gripped in the iron fist of... -
The Real Middle-Earth: A History of the Dark Ages that Inspired Tolkein by Brian Bates
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.49In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for... -
Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-35 by M.K. Lawson 9780752460697
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.52King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However, the beginnings of his kingship were less auspicious. He was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard,... -
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe by Francois Neveux
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $8.44The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of... -
The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England by M J Porter 9781399068437
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.90Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognised today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England's... -
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain by Philip Parker
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past. Engrossing' INDEPENDENT___________What is... -
1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns by Michael Livingston 9781526751973
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons: The Wars of King Alfred 865-899 by Hill, Paul
Booksplease Price: $51.83In this compelling military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill explores England's birth amidst the devastation and fury of the Danish invasions of the ninth century. He provides insight into the English response to the new... -
The Kingdom and People of Kent: AD 400-1066 by Sue Harrington 9780752456942
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $26.60The roots of England lie within the fertile soil of its earliest kingdom, that of the people of Kent. Here, for a brief moment under King AEthelbert of Kent (c.560-616) this corner of England was transformed into the first Anglo-Saxon and Christian... -
Camelot: The epic new novel from the author of Lancelot by Giles Kristian
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.72'So beautiful, so haunting . . . bitingly real . . . Giles has given us a vital, glorious story: rich, rewarding, and utterly revealing of our times' Manda ScottFollowing his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $48.07"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England by Malcolm Hislop 9781399001106
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $38.26Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles, like cathedrals, are defining landmarks of their age, dominating their settings, in many cases even to this day. By representing an essential aspect of... -
Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England by Michael Alexander
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.49Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England-from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin,... -
A Short History Of The Anglo-saxons by Giles Morgan 9780857301666 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.08From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from? A Short... -
A Pocket Essential Short History of the Anglo-Saxons Giles Morgan 9780857301666
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $8.44From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were the Anglo-Saxons and where did they come from? A Short... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.82The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and...