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Medieval History

1. The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

   Larry Gonick

   An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.More

2. Richard the Third

   Paul Murray Kendall

   "The best biography of Richard III that has been written."—A. L. Rowse, Chicago TribuneMore

3. The Muslim Discovery of Europe

   Bernard Lewis

   "Full of rare and exact information.... A distinguished work."—New York Review of BooksMore

4. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians

   J. B. Bury

   The classic study of how the Roman Empire gradually succumbed to barbarian encroachment.More

5. The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

   Christine de Pizan, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Kevin Brownlee

   Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.More

6. The World of Late Antiquity

   Peter Brown, Geoffrey Barraclough

   This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 A.D., came to differ from "Classical civilization."More

7. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund

   St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.More

8. The Women Troubadours

   Meg Bogin

   An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.More

9. Europe in the Age of Imperialism, 1880-1914

   Heinz Gollwitzer, Geoffrey Barraclough

   This study treats modern imperialism and its consequences as an integral part of the history of European society and culture.More

10. The Medieval Papacy

    Geoffrey Barraclough

    The medieval papacy is treated as a historical phenomenon developing and changing in response to changing historical circumstances.More