Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
$54.95 AUD
Category: Medieval
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization, th ...Show more
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
$48.00 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Saqi Essentials
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes", Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of c ...Show more
Kingmaker's Daughter (#4 Cousins War) by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Cousins' War Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author -- At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, the Earl of Warwick's daughter, Anne, grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful when her father makes war on his former friends. Wed while only a girl, she is widowed and then left fatherless. Wi ...Show more
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Medieval
'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule ...Show more
Justinian's Flea - Plague, Empire and the birth of Europe by Bill Rosen
$59.95 AUD
Category: Medieval | Reading Level: very good
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. Twenty-five million corpses later, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, was through, both ...Show more
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
$49.99 AUD
Category: Medieval
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hyb ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Wellcome Collection
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where d ...Show more
Spice: The History Of A Temptation by Jack Turner
$32.95 AUD
Category: Medieval
The history of an obsession that once shaped the world. In the ancient Egyptian temple of Dayr al-Bahri is preserved the earliest surviving representation of a merchant fleet. Date to around 1495 BC, rows of hieroglyphs record that the pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut sent the fleet 1900 miles south to the land ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Daily TelegraphBook of the YearLove, murder, war, betrayalThis is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the No ...Show more
Runes by Martin Findell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Medieval
From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages including English, Dutch, German and the ...Show more
Athelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
$49.95 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Yale English Monarchs Series
The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across Europe, and succ ...Show more