History and related entertainment for the medieval enthusiast.
The Medieval Garden
Combining her historical knowledge with practical experience of recreating medieval gardens in various sites in England, Landsberg explains how she designed Que...[Read More]
Timeline
A member of an archeological team uses a time "fax" machine to hurl himself back to 14th-century France to save his professor father, who was zapped there earli...[Read More]
Travel In The Middle Ages
Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and people―out of want or necessity―to g...[Read More]
The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World & Early Netherlandish Painting 1430-1530
This book explores the complex artistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political relationships between Burgundian Netherlands and the Mediterranean.
The History of the Albigensian Crusade: Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay’s `Historia Albigensis’
The Historia Albigensis is one of the most important sources for the history of the Cathar heresy and the Albigensian crusade. This new translation makes the wo...[Read More]
Image & Idol: Medieval Sculpture
Medieval Sculpture evokes the cataclysmic events of the religious Reformation of the sixteen century that transformed British culture forever. Sculptures from t...[Read More]
Medieval Children
A look at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
The Early Slavs: Culture & Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe
More than 270 million people in Europe speak one of the many Slavic languages and dialects, but the origins and development of Slavic culture are still among th...[Read More]
A Knight’s Tale
Peasant-born William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) begins a quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden (Shanynn Sossamon) and rock his med...[Read More]
Maurice’s Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy
In this first complete English translation, the Strategikon is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history but for the general history of the art ...[Read More]
The Medieval Archer
This is a study of the archer and his weapon, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses.
Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living & the Dead in Medieval Society
Through this vivid study, Jean-Claude Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in...[Read More]
