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 Dorothy Dymond
2023
First Published in 1929 An Introduction to Medieval History presents a comprehensive overview of the social, political, and religious movements that inspired medieval civilization and still influence the civilization of our own day. It brin…
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Check price on Amazon →by Anthony Emery
2006
This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the fi…
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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 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 Andrew Reynolds
2009
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conque…
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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…
€16.99 list price
Check price on Amazon →by Dennis A. Trinkle, Scott A. Merriman
2006
Guide to history sites on the web for students, teachers and researchers. Offers the most current coverage of historical information available on the Internet. All sites have been thoroughly checked by specialists in the relevant field of h…
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Check price on Amazon →by C. W. Previté-Orton
2014
Originally published in 1937, this volume contains the text of an inaugural lecture delivered by celebrated medieval historian C. W. Previté-Orton upon his accession to the Professorship of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge. T…
Check price on Amazon →by Ralph Henry Carless Davis, Henry Mayr-Harting, R.I. Moore
1985
Check price on Amazon →by Lawrence J. McCrank
2001
"Here is an extensive review and bibliographic essay, backed by 5,000 citations, about developments in information technology since the advent of personal computing and the convergence of the disciplines. Its focus is on the access, pr…
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