The Celts
Nora Chadwick
Licentious pagans or mystical druids? Rapacious vandals or noble warriors? Nora Chadwick sets out to discover the truth about The Celts.
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Once dismissed as the dark ages between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, this fascinating period now receives the attention it deserves.
Chivalry
Maurice Keen
From the Crusades and the Knights Templar to courtly love and the battles of Agincourt and Crécy, this award-winning work illuminates the historical reality of an ideal which transformed European society.
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Chronicles of the Dark Ages
Richard Barber
Uncover the dramatic story of the Anglo–Saxons through their own words in this newly commissioned collection of Anglo–Saxon writing.
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The Elizabethan Underworld
Gamini Salgado
Gamini Salgado's fascinating book plunges into the alleys of London's streets to meet a veritable rogue's gallery of conmen, highwaymen, astrologers and alchemists.
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A History of the Crusades
Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runciman's gripping and groundbreaking history of the crusades enthrals the general reader as completely as it satisfies the historian.
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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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Admiral Lord Cochrane
The real-life 'Master and Commander', Thomas Lord Cochrane's heroic naval exploits and maverick public life made him one of the most celebrated figures of Georgian England.
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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses
This remarkable correspondence of more than 1,000 letters, written between 1420 and 1500 and spanning three generations tell how a family lived through The Wars of the Roses.
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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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The Spanish Inquisition
Henry Kamen
Henry Kamen paints a complete picture of La Inquisición from the points of view of both the tormentors and the tormented, casting new light on the social and political motivations behind the religious zeal.
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The Story of the Renaissance
Voltaire called the 15th-century Florentine Renaissance 'one of the four happy and exemplary ages in human history'. These classic volumes tell the story of the great flowering of art, architecture, politics, philosophy and literature that marked the beginning of the Modern Age.
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The Vikings
Gwyn Jones
From 780 to 1070 the Vikings founded an empire that spread from Arabia to Newfoundland. Gwyn Jones’s admirable account is packed with stories of sea journeys, plunder and pillage, culled from the Vikings’ own records and the writings of their contemporaries.
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