Lordship and learning

studies in memory of Trevor Aston

The medieval crusade

War at sea in the middles ages and the renaissance

The celts

a history

The Celts were one of the most important population groups to spread across the ancient European continent. From 800BC to 1050AD their story is one of expanding power and influence followed by contraction and near extinction. Drawing on all possible sources of evidence, from archaeological ...

Maps of medieval thought

the Hereford paradigm

Filled with information and lore, mappae mundi present an encyclopaedic panorama of the conceptual 'landscape' of the middle ages. Previously objects of study for cartographers and geographers, the value of medieval maps to scholars in other fields is now recognised and this book, written from ...

The tournament in England, 1100-1400

Scholarly study - does much to illuminate an important element of chivalric culture. HISTORY [This] sterling book is clearly written and logically organized. Its scholarship is à outrance, its appeal to the student of the chivalric period à plaisance. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Juliet Barker surveys the ...

The flower of Chivalry

Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War

The knights hospitaller

An important source for the history of the military orders. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW We've got here the most sophisticated rule book, which knocks the road traffic act into the shade. TIME TEAM [Channel 4, at Templecombe] The Order of the Knights Templar, whose original ...

Royal regulation of loans and sales in medieval England

monkkish superstition and civil tyranny

Examines laws prohibiting usury, forestalling and regrating and regulating prices in England during the reigns of the first three Edwards and Richard II (1272-1399). It demonstrates royal regulation of subjects' loans and sales was neither entirely "monkish" nor "tyrannical" in intention or effect

The catalan rules of the templars

a critical edition and english translation from Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Cartas Reales, MS 3344

The Knights Templar, part monastic order, part military force, lived by a firm code, or rule, which exists in differing versions. This Spanish version is a follow-up to J.M. Upton-Ward's highly successful edition of the French Rule. The introduction to this Catalan Rule ...

King John

new interpretations

The reign of King John (1199-1216) is one of the most controversial in English history. When he succeeded to Richard the Lionheart's lands, he could legitimately claim to rule half modern France as well as England and Ireland; but by the time of his ...

The Flower of Chivalry

Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War

The rise of Bertrand du Guesclin ranks as one of the most spectacular adventures in a fourteenth century rich in heroic tales. A poor Breton squire, ungainly and unlettered, he came of age at the onset of the Hundred Years War. He spent two decades ...

Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe

Concepts, origins, transformations

A companion to medieval arms and armour

Shakespeare and Machiavelli

The visigoths from the migration period to the seventh Century

an ethnographic perspective

Plant Fossils. The History of Land Vegetation.

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