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Medieval History
Once dismissed as the dark ages between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, this fascinating period now receives the attention it deserves.
The Assassins
Bernard Lewis
Some claim that the ashishin, or 'assassins', were no more than a drug-crazed gang high on the 'hashish' that gave them their name; others that they were the world's first terrorists.
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The Black Death
Philip Ziegler
Philip Ziegler's definitive history of the plague shows that even the most lurid imaginings would not have done justice to the horror of the reality.
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Charlemagne
Alessandro Barbero
On the eve of the ninth century AD, a pope who had fled his enemies in Rome, threw himself on the mercy of a barbarian king. At his death in 814, his dominions stretched from Italy to Denmark and from Serbia to Spain. The generation who outlived him would name him 'the Great' - an accolade which stuck, so that today we know him as Charlemagne.
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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
Originally published in 1860, this classic work has never been surpassed for its accessibility and boldness of thought.
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The Hundred Years War
Alfred H. Burne
The famous battles of the Hundred Years War - Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), Agincourt (1415) - were pivotal moments in military history.
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Inventions of the Middle Ages
Chiara Frugoni
The middle ages have often been depicted as a period in which life had few comforts. Nonsense, says the great medieval scholar Chiara Frugoni, in this delightful examination of the many inventions we owe to the Middle Ages.
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Medieval People
Eileen Power
A vivid look into the lives of six individuals of varying wealth and status living in medieval times – this book has proved an inspiration to many historians.
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Montaillou
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Other books may tell us about the daily lives of medieval peasants. Montaillou, a classic from the day it was published, captures their most intimate thoughts and feelings - in their own words.
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The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery
Christopher Brooke
In his marvellous history, Christopher Brooke examines how the Christian monastery came to be one of the greatest powers and symbols of the Middle Ages.
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Saint Joan of Arc
Vita Sackville-West
Torn apart by the Hundred Years War, 15th-century France was desperate for a miracle. The answer lay deep in the countryside, where an illiterate, 17-year-old peasant girl had been told by the saints that it was her destiny to save France.
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The Trial of the Templars
Malcolm Barber
A detailed account of the ordeal of the French Templars arrested, tried and executed from 1307-1314 for heretical crimes during the Inquisition. Although their confessions were extracted under torture, a number of the brothers survived to defend their Order until 1314.
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