Medieval

The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of...

In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the...

The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defence. Yet this aspect of its history is...

In this the second part of his four-volume military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill follows the careers of thelfl d, Alfred the Great's eldest daughter, and Edward the Elder, Alfred's eldest son, as they campaigned to expand...

King Arthur is one of the most controversial topics of early British history. Are the legends based on a real historical figure or pure mythological invention? Ilkka Syvanne's study breaks new ground, adopting a novel approach to the sources by...

Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England's most famous battle. This, in turn, has increased speculation that the titanic struggle for the English crown in 1066...

When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891684Author Helen J. NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the heart of the enemy and in 1453 Ottoman cannon succeeded in pummelling the once-impregnable walls of...

Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the...

Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430794Author Igor Dominik GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

For 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486525Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

The Military Order of Teutonic Knights was one of the three most famous Crusading Orders, on a par with the Templars and the Hospitallers. Originally focusing on the preservation of the Crusader States in the Middle East, after the loss of their Middle...

Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time." Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed...

Born in the dark days of the great crusades, the warrior monks of the Knights Templar vowed to defend pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Yet strangely, there are few historical records of the Templars ever fulfilling this task. Instead, their history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430770Author Igor GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims to...

The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of campaigning across the southwest of France. The battle of...

'A masterly debut... If Bernard Cornwall and George R.R. Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await the sequel.' Antonia Senior on A Mighty Dawn_______________________Forged in fire...

The medieval mounted knight was a fearsome weapon of war, captivating and horrifying in equal measure, they are a continuing source of fascination. They have been both held up as a paragon of chivalry, whilst often being condemned as oppressive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163609Author William R ShortFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)...

Very little is known about the battle of Carham, fought between the Scots and Northumbrians in 1018. The leaders were probably Mael Coluim II, king of Scotland, and Uhtred of Bamburgh, earl or ealdorman in Northumbria. The outcome of the battle was a...

The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages. The process was neither linear nor mono-causal, but it affected society as a whole,...

In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the Romans' and the Normans', which saw the country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a...

The overwhelming victory of Henry V's English army at Agincourt in October 1415 has passed into myth - as one of the defining events of the Hundred Years War against France, as a feat of arms outshining the previous famous English victories at Crecy and...

The Norman story began in 911, when a frightened French king (Charles III ‘the Simple’) gave land on the Channel coast to the Viking leader Rollo in return for adopting Christianity and helping repel other Viking marauders. Rollo and his fellow Norsemen...

The Crusades were among the most astonishing historical events that took place during the Middle Ages. After centuries of relative isolation following the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe looked again towards the Middle East in search of lands to...

In the late eleventh century, tens of thousands of people-knights and peasants, men and women, priests and lords-set out on a long and arduous journey to retake the holy city of Jerusalem. They traveled thousands of miles across difficult terrain and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139449Author Jim BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148-c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a...

In 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade, summoned by the Pope and gathered from throughout Christendom, took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an...

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was...

Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Europe explores in fascinating detail the key campaigns, battles and sieges that shaped the crusading period in Europe during the Middle Ages, giving special attention to military technologies, tactics and strategies. Key...

Dracula - the fifteenth-century Romanian prince, also known as Vlad the Impaler [?epe?], is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. This book includes a wide range of studies on the life and times of Vlad III Dracula by leading...

When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a few generations, by force of arms, some of these men and other later...

Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979505Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingDimensions(mm) 220mm * 126mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512982Author Jim StorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company