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The Two Eleanors of Henry III: The Lives of Eleanor of Provence and Eleanor de Montfort by Darren Baker 9781526747518
RRP: £25.00£17.62Eleanor of Provence was born in the province of her name in 1223. She has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He's sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He's a kind, sensitive sort whose only... -
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces the document to a modern audience, explaining its... -
Writings on Body and Soul by Aelred of Rievaulx
RRP: £29.95£23.19Aelred (1110-1167), abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, has always been a controversial figure. He was beloved by his monks and widely admired, but also sharply criticized for his frankness about his own sinfulness and what some considered his... -
The Royal Bastards of Twelfth Century England: Power and Blood by James Turner 9781399067348
RRP: £22.00£15.62The many storied monarchs of twelfth century England lived, fought, loved, and died surrounded by their illegitimate relatives. While their many contributions have too often been overlooked, these illegitimate sons, daughters and siblings occupied... -
Attacking a Norman Castle by Robin Twiddy
RRP: £8.99£5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801559157Author Robin TwiddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old Icelandic by Jesse Byock 9780988176409
RRP: £12.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988176409Author Jesse ByockFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Jules William PressPublisher Jules William Press -
A Brief History of Medieval Warfare by Peter Reid
RRP: £15.99£4.11For over 150 years, from 1314 to 1485, England fought an almost continuous war with its neighbours: the Campaign of the North when the armies of Robert the Bruce were vanquished, the long, one-hundred-and-sixteen-year conflict with France, finally... -
Richard III in the North by M J Trow 9781526777171
RRP: £25.00£16.13Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation. As spectacular as his death at Bosworth in August 1485 - the last king of England to die in battle - the... -
The Poison Maiden (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 2): Deceit, deception and death in the court of Edward II by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80It's 1308 and England hovers on the brink of civil war. Edward II, his wife Isabella and the royal favourite Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, have been forced to retreat to the King's folly. Just an arrowshot away lie the Great Lords and Philip IV of... -
Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? by Richard Wadge
RRP: £18.99£14.00How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary... -
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses by Dan Spencer
£17.99The 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... -
Corpse Candle (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 13): A gripping medieval mystery of monks and murder by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80The brothers of the abbey of St Martin's-in-the-Marsh pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horseman. They may hear the shrill blast of a hunting... -
Hotspur: Henry Percy: Medieval Rebel by Andrew Boardman
RRP: £14.99£11.28'This book should be in your hands!' - Medieval History Magazine'A detailed and readable account of Hotspur's life that conveys a sense of the endemic violence of the Border Marches.' - Northern History'Boardman has studied the battlefields of Otterburn,... -
Treachery and Retribution by Andrew Rawson 9781473876248
RRP: £12.99£8.32This is the history of England's turbulent times, told through the stories of the country's nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends with the union of England and Scotland in 1707. The nobility fought wars against Scotland in... -
Edward II (Penguin Monarchs): The Terrors of Kingship by Christopher Given-Wilson
RRP: £7.99£5.79'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness'The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Inept in... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool 9781472902993
RRP: £10.00£6.93Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the... -
Domesday People - A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I - Domesday Book by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan 9780851157221
RRP: £95.00£91.08A major genealogical advance: the first authoritative and complete biographical register of persons occurring in Domesday Book. This is the first of two volumes offering for the first time an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest... -
The Darkening Glass (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 3): Murder, mystery and mayhem in the court of Edward II by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80Mathilde of Westminster must face a dangerous foe in the third novel in Paul Doherty's acclaimed series. March 1312 and England is divided. Edward II is in conflict with his barons over royal favourite Gaveston, and Queen Isabella is momentously pregnant... -
Daughters of Edward I by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne married a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos, and their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor... -
Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
RRP: £9.99£6.64During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The... -
The Black Prince and King Jean II of France: Generalship in the Hundred Years War by Peter Hoskins 9781526749871
RRP: £19.99£14.28What were the essential qualities for a military commander during the Hundred Years War? How important were strategic vision, tactical skill and powers of leadership in medieval warfare? These are the questions that Peter Hoskins explores in this... -
Hymn to Murder (Hugh Corbett 21) by Paul Doherty
RRP: £20.99£14.94Hugh 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 Dartmoor... -
The Worst Medieval Monarchs by Phil Bradford 9781399083058
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool
RRP: £12.99£7.58A fascinating reappraisal of Richard III, the man and the monarch. Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth... -
Borderlands: South Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Periods. AD 450-1066 by Phil Sidebottom 9781399065566
RRP: £20.00£14.29The period AD 450-1066 was a tumultuous time for the British Isles, and this was in particularly true of what became South Yorkshire. Existing on the borderland between the great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, South Yorkshire remained... -
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400–1450 by Ralph Moffat 9781837651481
RRP: £60.00£57.15Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of... -
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England by Elaine Leong
RRP: £28.00£27.39Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by... -
Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300–1500 by Teresa Phipps 9781526171795
RRP: £25.00£21.58This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and... -
Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages by Kate Craig
RRP: £37.99£33.38Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent... -
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 9780312302399
RRP: £30.99£19.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302399Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 477Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City: 5 by Michael Brown 9781783275977
RRP: £29.99£25.23First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages. St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the... -
Anglo-Norman England 1066 - 1166 by Marjorie Chibnall 9780631154396
RRP: £38.95£34.20Historians have long debated the significance of the Norman Conquest. Did it mark the imposition of an alien and repressive regime on "free Englishmen"? Or did England benefit from the uniting of two separate and disparate cultures and civilizations?... -
1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns by Michael Livingston 9781526751973
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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard
£40.54Echoes of the Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. Sites like the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism, Medieval institutions like the monarchy, monasteries, and universities are... -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781526745255
RRP: £25.00£18.02Magna Carta clause 39: No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in... -
The Century of Calamity: England in the Long Eleventh Century by T.D. Asch
RRP: £20.00£13.34The Century of Calamity is the story of a nation's fall, and the men who caused it. It is the story of how AEthelraed the Unready's calamitous and vicious rule took England to the brink of collapse; of how Cnut subsumed the country within a northern... -
The Rose Demon: A terrifying tale of medieval England by P. C. Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80Matthias Fitzosbert is the illegitimate son of the parish priest of the village of Sutton Courteny. Despite the recent spate of murders, each day he braves the dark woods to visit his friend, a mysterious hermit who shows him many strange and beautiful... -
The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin 9780750978569
RRP: £7.99£5.96Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard... -
Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty by Terry Breverton
RRP: £9.99£6.64'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel ... but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often... -
William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray 9781781554159
RRP: £16.99£12.64For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because,...