Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The Age of Robert Guiscard

    Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest

    by Graham Loud ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300

    by Graham Loud ...
    The Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, Cava, has had a continuous existence since its foundation almost exactly a thousand years ago. From its modest beginnings, it developed during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries into one of the wealthiest and most influential monasteries in southern Italy.This path-breaking study, based on many years research into the, largely unpublished, charters ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck

    by Graham Loud ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier chronicle of Helmold of Bosau, and covers the years 1172–1209, in seven books. It was completed soon ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy

    The Chronicle of Montecassino by Leo Marsicanus, c. 529–1075

    Series series Manchester Medieval Sources
    The chronicle of Leo Marsicanus recounts the history of the abbey of Montecassino from its foundation by St. Benedict in the sixth-century up to 1075. It presents a detailed and compelling story of tribulation and renewal, with the abbey twice destroyed and abandoned in the early Middle Ages and then rebuilt. It concludes with an informative account of the building and dedication of the new abbey ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Monasticism and politics in Norman Italy

    The Chronicle of Montecassino, 1072–1138

    Series series Manchester Medieval Sources
    The Chronicle of Montecassino gives a detailed and compelling account of the monastery during its ‘golden age’ under Abbots Desiderius and Oderisius I, and the challenges that it then faced from the early years of the twelfth century onwards. As law and order in the Principality of Capua broke down, the monks faced increasing threats to their lands, and internal division arose within the monastery ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

    Essays by German Historians

    Edited by Graham A. Loud, Jochen Schenk ...
    The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich, whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Making of Medieval History

    A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Charles V

    The World Emperor

    In his biography of Charles V Harald Kleidschmidt paints a vivid portrait of one of the most intriguing of the great European monarchs. ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlemagne

    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    This groundbreaking comparative history of the early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland sets the development of each polity in the context of the central European region as a whole. Focusing on the origins of the realms and their development in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the book concludes with the thirteenth century when significant changes in social and economic structures ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • The Habsburgs

    Dynasty, Culture and Politics

    On 28 June 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine-Este was shot dead. Known as the moment that sparked off the First World War, this incident also initiated another, lesser-known story: the beginning of the end of Habsburg rule, which came four years later. In this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire, Paula Sutter Fichtner ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD