c 500 CE to c 1000 CE

Which genius ideas and inventions began with the Anglo-Saxons? What did they develop that we use to this day? Find out how the Anglo-Saxons farmed their land, built their houses and organised their society. Discover their brilliant developments in defence, law, language, and storytelling that hav...

Which genius ideas and inventions began with the Maya? What did they develop that we use to this day? In this book, aimed at readers aged nine and over, find out how the Maya built their cities to suit the landscape and population, traded their resources and developed a complex system of writing....

'House of Lilies' is a highly enjoyable, state-of-the-art account of this extraordinary sequence of events, set against one of the great eras in the history of western Europe, a time of remarkable cultural efflorescence. Justine Firnhaber-Baker brilliantly conveys not only the sheer glamour of th...

Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long reign. Warfare an...

An investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. The evidence is laid out in a chronological order starting from Roman Britain and shows how the legend evolved and at what point concepts such as Camelot, excalibur and Merl...

Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is concluded that he was a Celtic king or a Roman officer, or something in-between, there is one conclusion that virtually all investigators agree on: he...

When history looks back at the time after functioning Roman government ended in 410 but before the turmoil of the 800s when Viking armies arrived to irrevocably scramble the political geography of Britain, it usually focuses on the four major kingdoms of early medieval Britain: Wessex, Northumbri...

When history looks back at the time after functioning Roman government ended in 410 but before the turmoil of the 800s when Viking armies arrived to irrevocably scramble the political geography of Britain, it usually focuses on the four major kingdoms of early medieval Britain: Wessex, Northumbri...

Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions, and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from the east. In the Middle Ages, Central Europeans cast their eastern foes as 'the dogm...

Elisabeth van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining Norman expansion, their political and social organisation and their eventual decline.