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The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: $25.33$16.77England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy Nicholas Vincent (Professor of Medieval History, University of Anglia) 9781851243631
RRP: $48.75$42.74Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring its contents. Annulled by the pope within weeks of... -
Killer of Kings Matthew Harffy 9781786696267
RRP: $17.53$12.58AD 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 Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $39.00$27.40The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
A People’s Tragedy: Studies in Reformation by Professor Eamon Duffy
RRP: $39.00$27.87As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin... -
The Tribes of Britain David Miles 9780753817995
RRP: $29.23$19.89Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures... -
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
RRP: $19.48$13.86The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid... -
The Medieval Monastery by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $17.53$14.43An illustrated look at life in abbeys and priories, and within the monastic orders, in the middle ages. Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality,... -
A Night of Flames by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48$15.11In the wild lands of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a violent revolt in Matthew Harffy's new historical adventure. Northumbria, AD 794. Those who rule the seas, rule the land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. To compete with the seafaring... -
The Age Of Arthur by John Morris
RRP: $33.13$23.28A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the... -
The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789-955 by Max Adams 9781643132549
RRP: $38.90$22.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132549Author Max AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 38mm -
St Albans: A history by Mark Freeman 9781912260652
RRP: $38.98$34.75Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history. From the late Iron... -
British Battles 493-937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh by Andrew Breeze 9781839980701
RRP: $48.75$46.37British Battles 493-937 deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493) at Braydon, Wiltshire; battles of the British hero... -
The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300 by Katrin Kania
RRP: $25.33$16.54To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex and dynamic period in England. Exploring a wide... -
The Vikings in Britain and Ireland Jayne Carroll 9780714128313
RRP: $21.43$14.43For 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... -
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages by Guy Halsall
RRP: $29.23$22.13King 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... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $21.43$14.27The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they... -
John Wyclif on War and Peace by Rory Cox
RRP: $156.00$143.68New investigation of John Wyclif's writings on the theory of the "just war" shows him to be the first genuine pacifist of medieval Europe. John Wyclif (c. 1330-84) was the foremost English intellectual of the late fourteenth century and is remembered... -
Tales from the Long Twelfth Century: The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire by Richard Huscroft
RRP: $25.33$23.13This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or... -
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain by Philip Parker
RRP: $21.43$15.15Discover 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... -
Shield Breaker by Richard Cullen
RRP: $19.48$13.86Styrkar 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... -
Camelot: The epic new novel from the author of Lancelot by Giles Kristian
RRP: $15.58$11.29'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... -
Old English Lives of Saints, Volume III by Aelfric
RRP: $58.40$46.14Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: $19.48$12.50The 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... -
A Brief History of the Knights Templar by Helen Jane Nicholson 9781849011006
RRP: $21.43$8.01Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing... -
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock 9780141390697
$37.52We are all familiar with the legendary tales of King Arthur: the sword in the stone, the Holy Grail, the great deeds and high enchantments. But what evidence is there for a real historical figure beneath the myth and romance? This book assembles a wealth... -
Etheldreda's World: Princess, Abbess, Saint by Dr. Charles Moseley 9781913159665
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159665Author Dr. Charles MoseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm)... -
Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints by Johanna Kramer
RRP: $58.40$46.92From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saints' Lives flourished. The Latin narratives followed specific forms, dramatizing a virgin's heroic resolve or... -
A New History of the Picts by Stuart McHardy
RRP: $17.53$12.87When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce and proud warrior society known as the Picts, who despite their lack of discipline and arms, managed to prevent the undefeated Roman Army from conquering the northern... -
Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity by Duncan Sayer 9781526135568
RRP: $58.50$52.81This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book... -
Fortress of Fury by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48$15.11Beobrand is besieged in the action-packed instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles set in AD 647 Anglo-Saxon Britain. War hangs heavy in the hot summer air as Penda of Mercia and his allies march into the north. Caught unawares, the Bernician forces are... -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens Lisa Hilton 9780753826119
RRP: $25.33$16.77England 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... -
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
RRP: $58.50$36.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675087Author Mary WellesleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 154mm * 31mm -
The Kingdom and People of Kent: AD 400-1066 by Sue Harrington 9780752456942
RRP: $35.08$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... -
Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World by Tim Flight 9781789147742
RRP: $21.43$15.15Why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology and a wealth of first-hand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic... -
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain by Philip Parker 9780241368268
RRP: $48.75$34.36Discover 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___________In 878... -
For Lord and Land by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $17.53$13.79Greed and ambition threaten to tear the north apart in this exciting Bernicia Chronicles novel. AD 651. War rages between the two kingdoms of Northumbria. Kin is pitted against kin and friend becomes foe as ambitious rulers vie for supremacy. When... -
Roman Chester: Fortress at the Edge of the World by David Mason
RRP: $48.75$36.93Much of Roman Chester has been lost through post-Roman dismantling and `recycling' of building materials, though excavations over recent years have added substantially to our knowledge of the town known as Deva. In this companion volume to Chester:... -
Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Gittos 9780198737056
$95.88Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, and processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and... -
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
RRP: $21.43$14.14"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and...