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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages by Liza Picard
RRP: $27.28$18.06'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent... -
Realm of Darkness (Hugh Corbett 23) by Paul Doherty
RRP: $23.08$15.54Paul Doherty's twenty-third medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C. J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell.Spring, 1312. Edward II of England is absorbed with his favourite,... -
Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
RRP: $27.28$18.06'Fresh, gripping and vivid' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Majestically narrated' Dan Jones 'A portrait that chills you to the bone' Leanda de Lisle, The TimesA dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the Yorkist dynasty for most of his early life, Richard's... -
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: $23.08$15.23The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim... -
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs): From Playboy Prince to Warrior King by Anne Curry
RRP: $16.78$12.16The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political... -
The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1): Corruption, intrigue and murder in the court of Edward II by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$14.28By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry... -
The Kings & Queens of Wales by Timothy Venning
RRP: $23.08$15.23The Welsh kings and queens who ruled prior to the Norman Conquest of Wales are shrouded in mystery. Most of what we know is from legend, names in annals, and from their opponents. This book sets out to identify what we know or can reasonably surmise... -
Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities by Susan Kilby 9781912260218
RRP: $39.88$34.90This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual... -
Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King? by Rosemary Horrox
RRP: $16.78$11.15No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own... -
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
RRP: $23.08$15.23"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... -
The Medieval Calendar Year by Bridget Ann Henisch 9780271019048
RRP: $73.40$64.28The Medieval Calendar Year celebrates the pictorial convention known as "The Labors of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. Richly illustrated and elegantly presented, it provides valuable insights into prevailing social attitudes and... -
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300097542
$105.78What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a... -
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses by Dan Spencer 9781526718693
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill 9781526706324
RRP: $52.50$37.00Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England. Mythologically rumoured to... -
The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III by Gemma Hollman
RRP: $42.00$30.89'Hollman combines scrupulous research with spellbinding storytelling; The Queen and the Mistress will keep you turning the pages.' - Sylvia Barbara Soberton, author of Ladies-In-Waiting: The Women Who Served Anne Boleyn'A must-read for anyone interested... -
Owain Glyn Dwr - Prince of Wales by R. R. Davies 9781847711274
RRP: $12.50$11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847711274Author R R DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 172mm * 120mm * 10mm -
Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King? by Rosemary Horrox 9780141978932
RRP: $31.48$23.00No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own... -
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose
RRP: $27.28$19.59In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of... -
Stephen and Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Jim Bradbury
RRP: $27.28$19.68Stephen's reign was one of the darkest periods of English history. He had promised Henry I that he would support the king's daughter, Matilda, as the rightful heir to the English throne, but when Henry dies in December 1135 he broke his promise and... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: $20.98$14.18The 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... -
Spy in Chancery (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 3): Intrigue and treachery in a thrilling medieval mystery by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$14.28Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and is now determined to crush Edward. King Edward suspects that his enemy is being aided by a spy... -
The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453 by Emeritus Professor Anne Curry
RRP: $27.28$19.09An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages. There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in... -
The Magician's Death (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 14): A twisting medieval mystery of intrigue and suspense by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$14.28The monk and scholar Roger Bacon claimed to have seen many marvels of nature and science and concealed these in a book written in an unbreakable code. Sir Hugh Corbett has been instructed to organise agents in Paris to steal this Book of Secrets. They do... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008393625
RRP: $157.50$103.82This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the... -
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family by Susan Higginbotham
RRP: $27.28$19.68In 1464, the most eligible bachelor in England, Edward IV, stunned the nation by revealing his secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful, impoverished widow whose father and brother Edward himself had once ridiculed as upstarts. Edward's... -
Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones
RRP: $27.28$18.06In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael... -
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of the Near East by Levi Roach
RRP: $52.50$29.95'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with... -
Hymn to Murder (Hugh Corbett 21) by Paul Doherty 9781472259219
RRP: $20.98$14.28Hugh Corbett returns in the twenty-first gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard Cornwell you will love this. Secrets simmer in the lonely wasteland of... -
The Granddaughters of Edward III by Kathryn Warner
RRP: $46.20$32.80Edward III may be known for his restoration of English kingly authority after the disastrous and mysterious fall of his father, Edward II, and eventual demise of his mother, Queen Isabella. It was Edward III who arguably put England on the map as a... -
The Assassin in the Greenwood (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 7): A medieval mystery of intrigue, murder and treachery by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$14.28In the summer of 1302 the famous Robin of Locksley, popularly known as Robin Hood, has gone back to his outlaw ways in Sherwood Forest where he battles against royal authority, culminating in the barborous massacre of royal tax collectors and the... -
Declaration of Arbroath by Tom Turpie
RRP: $10.48$7.96A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis by Tom Turpie to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. The document is a declaration of Scottish independence as a sovereign state in 1320,... -
Medieval Military Combat: Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses by Tom Lewis 9781612008875
RRP: $52.50$33.26We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armour, to smash each other with their maces and poleaxes, for hours on end, as depicted on film in programs such as Game of Thrones?They could not have done so. It is... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe by JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: $27.28$18.06'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led... -
Building Durham Cathedral by Brian K. Roberts
RRP: $37.78$27.99Durham Cathedral was completed nearly 900 years ago, after 40 years of construction. Inevitably it has suffered from the effects of time: physical erosion, from the weather and increasing pollution on stone that was never of the best quality, and... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked The Universe by JohnJoe McFadden
RRP: $52.50$34.71'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led... -
Wars of the Roses: The People, Places and Battlefields of the Yorkists and Lancastrians by Paul Kendall
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Wars of the Roses, which saw England and Wales ravaged by warfare for three decades and dynasties rise and fall, decimated the nobility of an entire generation, and saw the rise of the merchant class, the decline of medieval feudalism and opened the... -
Richard III: The Maligned King by Annette Carson 9781803991832
RRP: $31.48$23.69Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional hunchback as depicted by Shakespeare: the wicked uncle who stole the throne and killed his nephews in the... -
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey
RRP: $27.28$19.09The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong... -
Murder Wears a Cowl (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 6): A gripping medieval mystery of murder and religion by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$14.28In early 1302 a violent serial killer lurks in the city of London, slitting the throats of prostitutes.And when Lady Somerville, one of the Sisters of St Martha, is murdered in the same barbaric fashion, her death is closely followed by that of Father... -
The Demon Archer (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 11): A twisting medieval murder mystery by Paul Doherty
RRP: $20.98$12.52The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St Matthew, 1303, is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies, his midnight trysts with a coven of witches and his boundless self-interest, he was a man of few...