Here's a hand-picked roundup of medieval history books. Every entry below is a history title worth your time, chosen for lasting impact and reader ratings.
by Martyn Whittock
2013
Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary. Thus we glimpse 11th-century ru…
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Check price on Amazon →by John M. Riddle
2016
This clear and comprehensive text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period. Distinguished historian John Riddle provides a cogent analysis of the rulers, wars, and events—both natural and human—that defined …
€74.79 list price
Check price on Amazon →by George Holmes
2001
This is the most authoritative is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance.Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which…
Check price on Amazon →by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
2021
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that a…
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Check price on Amazon →by Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Beata Możejko, Martin Nodl
2023
Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns. Various kinds of catastrophes, starting with major natural d…
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Check price on Amazon →by Ralph Henry Carless Davis
2006
R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. In updating this classic work to a thir…
Check price on Amazon →by Patrick J. Geary
2015
Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the medieval period is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts--or whole documents wherever possible--from the most widely studied hist…
Check price on Amazon →by John Arnold
2008
What is it that medieval historians do? And how and why do they do it? What is Medieval History? provides an accessible, far-ranging and passionate guide to the study of medieval history. The book discusses the creation of the academic fiel…
Check price on Amazon →by Hourly History
2016
What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages? Knights in armor and damsels in distress? Vikings plundering monasteries? Religious dissenters burning at the stake? The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Eur…
Check price on Amazon →by John H. Arnold
2020
Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold’s What is Medieval History? has established itself as the leading introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it that medieval historians do? How – and why – do they do it…
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Check price on Amazon →by G. A. Loud, Martial Staub
2017
Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. S…
Check price on Amazon →by Lynn Thorndike, James Thomson Shotwell
2015
Excerpt from The History of Medieval Europe Inasmuch as emigrants from all parts and from all races of Europe have long since been coming to the United States and becoming American citizens, it has seemed worth while to include the states a…
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