medieval books
society & history

 

England

Age of Chivalry
Art and Society in Late Medieval England

edited by Nigel Saul
Brockhampton Press
England, 1995.

A Strong Land & A Sturdy
England in the Middle Ages

The Mirror of Britain Series
by Richard Barbar
Andre Deutsch Ltd.
London, 1976
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
For the Modern Reader

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Prepared and Edited by Arthur Burrell, M.A.
J.M.Dent and Co.
London May 1909.
Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry
The Plantagenet dynasty from 1216 to 1377: Henry III and the three Edwards, the Era of the Black Prince and the Black Death

by Elizabeth Hallam
Tiger Books International
London, 1995
Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
By Peter Brears
Prospect Books
30 June, 2012
Crusaders
and Medieval Knights of Britain

by Sir David O'Lorcan
Daily Life In Chaucer's England
by Jeffrey L. Singman and Will McLean
Greenwood Press
1995
English Society in the Early Middle Ages
(1066-1307)

by Doris Mary Stenton
The Pelican History of England
Penguin Books
1962
Everyday Life in Medieval London
From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
by Toni Mount
Amberley Publishing
England, 2014
Illustrated English Social History
Volume 1

Chaucer's England and the Early Tudors
by G. M. Trevelyan
Longmans, Green and Co
London, New York, Toronto, 1952
Life In Norman England
by O.G. Tomkeieff
English Life Series
BT Batsford Ltd.
London, W1
Making A Living in the Middle Ages
The People of Britain, 850 – 1520

by Christopher Dyer
Yale University Press
2009
Mistress, Maids and Men
Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century

by Margaret Wade Labarge
Pheonix
Great Britain, 1965
Seven Hundred Years of English Cooking
by Maxine McKendry
edited by Arabell Boxer
Treasure Press
January 1, 1973
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
by Alan Ereira
BBC Books
May 5th, 2005
The Batsford Companion to Medieval England
by Nigel Saul
Batsford Academic & Educational Ltd.
London, 1983
The English Abbey
It's Life and Work in the Middle Ages
by Fred H. Crossley, FSA
Charles Scribner's Sons
London, 1939, 2nd Edition
The English Medieval Town
by Colin Platt
Secker & Warburg
London, 1976
The Life And Times Of Richard I
by John Gillingham
General Editor: Antonia Fraser
Book Club Associates
London, 1973
The Story of England
Makers of the Realm

by Arthur Bryant
Collins
London, 1961
The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

by Ian Mortimer
The Bodley Head Ltd.
2008
The Manor Houses of England
by PH Ditchfield
Illustrated by Sydney R Jones
Studio Editions Ltd.
The Guernsey Press Co.
1994
Treasures of Britain And Ireland
Drive Publications for the AA
Drive Publications
1977
The Wars of the Roses
Lancaster and York

by Alison Weir. Jonathan Cape
Random House
UK, 1995

 

Europe

Crispin's Day
The Glory of Agincourt

by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Collins
London, 1979
Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages
by K. Bosl, A. Guiysztor, F. Graus, M.M. Postan, F. Seibt
Library of European Civilization
Thames & Hudson
London, 1970
Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt
1320 - 1450

by George Holmes
Fontana History of Europe
Fontana/Collins
1975
Later Medieval Europe
from St Louis to Luther

by Daniel Waley
A Longman Paperback
London, 1975
Life in a Medieval Village
by Francis and Joseph Gies
HarperCollins, 1991

Life In Medieval France
by Joan Evans
Phaidon
First published 1929

Medieval Europe
A Short History

by Judith M. Bennet & C. Warren Hollister
McGraw-Hill; 10th edition
March 2, 2005
Medieval European Society
1000 - 1450

by Margaret Hastings
Douglass College
Random House
New York, 1971
Medieval Folklore.
A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.

Edited by Lindahl, McNamara & Lindow.
Oxford University Press.
Oxford. 2002.
Medieval Towns
The Archaeology of British Towns in Their European Setting

Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe
by John Schofield, Alan Vince
Equinox Publishing Ltd
GB, March 1, 2005
Montaillou
Cathars and Catholics In A French Village. 1294-1324

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Translated by Barbara Bray
Scholar Press
Penguin Books
England, 1978
Spain In The Middle Ages
from Frontier to Empire, 1000 - 1500

by Angus McKay
New Studies In Medieval History
Macmillian Press, 1977
Foundations of Early Modern Europe
1460 - 1559

History of Modern Europe S.
by Eugene F. Rice
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
The Imperial Age of Venice 1380 - 1580
Library of European Civilization
by D S Chambers
Thames and Hudson
London, 1970
The Northern Renaissance
by Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Phaidon
London, 2004
The Waning of the Middle Ages.
A Study in the Forms of Life, Thought & Art
in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

by J Huizinga
Translated by F. Hopman
Penguin books, 1965
Western Europe In The Middle Ages
by Joesph R Strayer
Prentice Hall Inc.
New Jersey, 1974
What Life Was Like in the Age Of Chivalry
Medieval Europe AD 800 - 1500

by the Editors of Time Life Books,
Alexandria, Virginia
The Close of the Middle Ages 1273-1494
by R. Lodge, M.A., LL.D.
Rivingtons, London. 1915

General

A Dictionary of Chivalry
by Grant Uden
Kestrel Books
Harmondsworth, Middlesex
UK, 1977

A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
by Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams
DS Brewer
Cambridge, 2004

A History of Private Life
Revelations of the Medieval World

by Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby General Editors
General editors Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby
translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Belknap Press
Harvard University, 1988

Black's History Pictures
The Middle Ages. 1066 - 1485

by GH Reed, MA.
A&C Black Ltd.
London.
Chivalry:
The Path of Love

by C. J. McKnight
Medieval Wisdom
Chronicle Books
1994
Chronicles of the Age of Chilvalry
by Elizabeth Hallam (The House of Lords)
Welcome Rain Publishers
October 1, 2000
Everyday life in Roman and Anglo-Saxon times:
Including Viking and Norman times

by Marjorie and C.H.B. Quennell
BT Batsford Limited
Putnam
January 1, 1968
Everyday Life Throught The Ages
A journey of discovery through over 15 000 years of world history

Reader's Digest Association Limited
London, 1992

Inside the Medieval World
A Panorama of Life in the Middle Ages

by James Harpur
Elizabeth Hallam, Consultant
Cardigan Street Publishers
Melbourne. 1995.

Man and Society
The Middle Ages

by David Mahoney
Methuen of Australia
Brisbane, 1976

Medieval People
by Sarah Howarth
The Millbrook Press
Connecticut, 1992
Medieval Places
by Sarah Howarth
The Millbrook Press
Connecticut, 1992
Medieval Worlds
A Sourcebook

Edited by Roberta Anderson and Dominic Aidan Bellenger
Routledge
June 19, 2003
The Age of Adversity
The Fourteenth Century

by Robert E. Lerner
Cornell University Press
Ithaca
NY. 1968
The Close of the Middle Ages, 1273-1494
by R. Lodge, MA, LLD. Prof History at Edinborough University
Rivingtons
London, 1915
The Flowering of the Middle Ages
edited by Joan Evans
Thames & Hudson Ltd
March 25, 1985
The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages
Authored by Morris Bishop
Horizon Magazine
Cassell & Company Ltd.
London, WC1 1968
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Medieval Civilization
by Aryeh Grabois
Octopus Books Limited
1980
The Illustrated Reference Book of The Ages of Discovery
Joy of Knowledge
Edited by James Mitchell
Colporteur Press,
Sydney Australia, 1982
The Medieval Castle
Life In A Fortress In Peace and War

by Phillip Warner
Arthur Barker Ltd.
London, 1971

 

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