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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,... -
Landscapes of the Norman Conquest by Rowley, Trevor 9781526724281
RRP: £25.00£17.62For a long time, the Norman Conquest has been viewed as a turning point in English history; an event which transformed English identity, sovereignty, kingship, and culture. The years between 1066 and 1086 saw the largest transfer of property ever seen in... -
Society and Culture in Early Modern England by David Cressy
RRP: £43.99£38.84The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces... -
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley
RRP: £36.00£30.77An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often... -
A Haunt of Murder (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 6): A ghostly tale of love and death in medieval England by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80As the sun sets, Chaucer's pilgrims find themselves lost in a Kent forest rumoured to be haunted. Huddled around the fire, trying to ignore the cries of screech owls and other, more frightening sounds of the night, the Clerk of Oxford agrees to tell a... -
The Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189 The Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189: Volume I by Nicholas Vincent
£113.32The first volume of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189. Edited by Nicholas Vincent, this scholarly set is the most considerable body of charter evidence ever presented for the history of... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid 9781910900222
RRP: £60.00£41.72Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death... -
Mael Coluim III, 'Canmore': The World of an Eleventh-Century King by Neil McGuigan
RRP: £100.00£68.97Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish History Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year The legendary Scottish king Mael Coluim III, also known as 'Malcolm Canmore', is often held to... -
The A-Z of the Knights Templar: Classic Histories Series: A Guide to Their History and Legacy by Gordon Napier 9780750993890
RRP: £10.99£8.02The Knights Templar were among the most famous of Christian military orders. Created after the First Crusade of 1096 and endorsed by the Catholic Church in 1129, the Order grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights were some of the best... -
The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers by Kathryn Warner 9781526744937
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favourite and perhaps lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great... -
Friars' Tales: Sermon Exempla from the British Isles by David Jones 9780719084249
RRP: £80.00£56.69Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of exempla, one Franciscan and one Dominican, put together... -
The Bastard's Sons: Robert, William and Henry of Normandy by Jeffrey James 9781445683140
RRP: £20.00£13.34William the Conqueror's intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons individually had the ability to rule the troublesome amalgam of England, Normandy and Maine once he was gone... -
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort by Darren Baker
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Politics and the Urban Sector in Fifteenth-Century England, 1413-1471 by Eliza Hartrich
RRP: £86.00£78.01Since the mid-twentieth century, political histories of late medieval England have focused almost exclusively on the relationship between the Crown and aristocratic landholders. Such studies, however, neglect to consider that England after the Black... -
Royal Mysteries: The Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain by Venning, Timothy
RRP: £25.00£17.62Royal mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. The 'mysteries', unravelled and analysed, are of enduring fascination and full of tragedy, suffering and pathos but also heroism and romance. The text is based on deep research in original... -
Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781399019620
RRP: £15.99£11.61Magna 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 Search of History: 1066-1485 by John F. Aylett
£24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780713106855Author John F. AylettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 216mm... -
Magna Carta: The Places that Shaped the Great Charter by Derek J. Taylor
RRP: £14.99£11.28For 800 years, Magna Carta has inspired those prepared to face torture, imprisonment and even death in the fight against tyranny. But the belief that the Great Charter gave us such freedoms as democracy, trial by jury and equality beneath the law has its... -
Food & Feast in Medieval England by P. W. Hammond
RRP: £12.99£9.37In this unique and fascinating book Peter Hammond examines the extraordinary range of food which found its way onto the tables of medieval English society, its production and distribution. Although bread, ale, meat and fish were staples, fish often came... -
Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings by Michele Morrical
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some of the most infamous... -
The Man Behind the Bayeux Tapestry: Odo, William the Conqueror's Half-Brother by Trevor Rowley 9780752460253
RRP: £18.99£14.00Odo of Conteville, the younger half-brother of William the Conqueror, was ordained Bishop of Bayeux while still in his teens. A larger than life character, he is best known for commissioning the Bayeaux Tapestry, in which he makes a dashing appearance at... -
William the Conqueror: The Bastard of Normandy by Peter Rex
RRP: £9.99£6.64Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert 'the Magnificent', William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent product of his time, much given to outbursts of rage, capable of great cruelty, autocratic, avaricious and prone... -
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy by Dyan Elliott
RRP: £40.00£34.32In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religious authorities of all stripes-patristic authors,... -
Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy by Professor Richard Sharpe
RRP: £80.00£59.11Medieval England was full of books, many times the number that have survived. The great moment of loss was when the country's religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarship... -
Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650 by Stephen Mileson 9780192894892
RRP: £92.00£84.36Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern... -
England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century by John Tolan
RRP: £40.00£34.32In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England's Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English... -
Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York by Sarah J Hodder 9781399063869
£27.45This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the daughters of Richard, Duke of York and his wife, Cecily Neville, and therefore sisters to Edward IV... -
The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2 by Barbara Harvey 9780197266632
£90.28Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded GBP2,800 p.a. These... -
The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1 by Barbara Harvey 9780197266625
£75.52Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded GBP2,800 p.a. These... -
Continuatio Eulogii: The Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum, 1364-1413 by Chris Given-Wilson
RRP: £107.50£107.10The Continuation of the Eulogium Historiarum is one of the major contemporary narratives of the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV. It covers the dramatic half century from 1364-1413, including the later years of the ailing Edward III (who died in 1377),... -
Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century by Peter J. A. Jones
RRP: £84.00£76.23Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r... -
Charters of the Redvers Family and the Earldom of Devon 1090-1217 by Robert Bearman
RRP: £25.00£23.94The Redvers earls of Devon were one of the leading families of southern England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with large estates in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Over 200 charters have survived before1217 which relate to... -
Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781445678757
£21.41The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been with Edith Swanneck for twenty years but in 1066, in order to strengthen his hold on the throne, he... -
The Normans: Classic Histories Series by Trevor Rowley 9780750993883
RRP: £10.99£8.02The Normans were a relatively short-lived cultural and political phenomenon. The emerged early in the tenth century and had disappeared off the map by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, southern Italy and Sicily, and... -
Robin Hood - The New Evidence by Geoff Wilson 9781788484466
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788484466Author Geoff WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of Yo - Study and Edition by Richard D. Wragg
RRP: £100.00£96.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914049026Author Richard D. WraggFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint York Medieval PressPublisher York Medieval PressWeight(grams) 170g -
Friars' Tales: Sermon Exempla from the British Isles by David Jones 9780719084256
RRP: £19.99£17.44Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of exempla, one Franciscan and one Dominican, put together... -
The Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter 1266-1321 by Maryanne Kowaleski
RRP: £25.00£23.94Exeter possesses the best series of local customs accounts from medieval England, beginning in 1266 and surviving for almost 70 per cent of the years up to 1498. They are also far more complete than other local accounts: listing ships' names, home ports,... -
The Black Prince by Michael Jones 9781643132297
RRP: £19.95£12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132297Author Michael JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
The HavenerAEs Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287-1356 by Maryanne Kowaleski
RRP: £25.00£24.34From at least the mid-thirteenth century, the Earl of Cornwall, the wealthiest and most politically powerful lord in the county, employed a special official - called the havener - to supervise the administration of his maritime profits in the county...