Follow along as the Vikings arrive in North America, Normans invade Britain, and Genghis Khan sweeps through Asia. Engaging illustrations, maps, and a continuous timeline detail important events, achievements, and cultures from 476 to 1500 CE.
Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies—an era characterized by continuities and discontinuities, the vibrant ...
The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles.
with the dragon that is holding Andromeda prisoner is not directly connected with the founding of Mycenae, yet we have in the ... the dragon seems to have been linked mainly with the celestial world and the solar myth; it is winged.
The aim of this book has been to tell the story of the Middle Ages so as to bring out the most characteristic features of the period, and to emphasize those things in medieval life which have the most significance for us today.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An introduction to the various elements of life in the Middle Ages, including religion, knights, castles, family life, and food.
Commonly called the Middle Ages, this was a time period of extreme change for Europe, beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies’s Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of A Game of Thrones.
Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval.
Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society.