Medieval

The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe.

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....

When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Templars....

This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....

The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....

The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression.

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history...

We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. We couldn't be more wrong.

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II....

A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....

In this 12-lecture course that corrects the record on a transformative period in world history, professor and prolific Viking Age scholar Jennifer Paxton unpack the scope and scale of Viking exploits in Europe.

In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they were in the minority.

Historian Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the epic story of the Capetian dynasty of medieval France, showing how their ideas about power, religion, and identity continue to shape European society and politics today.

These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....

In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima....

Originally published in the 16th century, this is the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the early Christian martyrs. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness,...

A tale of loyalty, treason and military might, Battle for the Island Kingdom reveals the rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown....

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule....

In this massive best seller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country....

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....

Descubra el fascinante mundo de los vikingos y la mitología nórdica Dos manuscritos en un solo libro: Mitos y leyendas vikingos: Relatos apasionantes, cuentos e historia de los vikingos y la mitología nórdica Vikingos en Inglaterra: Una guía apasionante sobre el gran ejército pagano, así como las incursiones, guerras y asentamientos vikingos en Gran Bretaña Explore la increíble historia y los fascinantes relatos de los vikingos en este libro fácil de leer. ¡Sumérjase en el mundo de los valientes guerreros y dioses míticos! Primera parte: Mitos y leyendas vikingas Mitos de la ...

Gales tiene una larga e ilustre historia, repleta de hazañas heroicas, personajes legendarios y momentos cruciales. En este conciso libro de historia, descubrirá la fascinante historia de Gales, desde sus antiguos orígenes celtas hasta la nación moderna. Desde el reinado del Rey Arturo y las batallas de los príncipes galeses hasta la revolución industrial y el auge del nacionalismo galés, este libro ofrece una visión general completa de los momentos clave y las figuras que han moldeado Gales a lo largo de los siglos.

Los caballeros templarios se han consolidado como la organización militar más popular de la época medieval. Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de la orden, y todo el mundo está familiarizado con la imagen de un caballero cruzado medieval con una cruz roja en su uniforme blanco. Pero, ¿quiénes eran exactamente los templarios? ¿Cuál era su objetivo? ¿Y son ciertos los rumores sobre su naturaleza secreta?

In a divided and convulsed Hispania, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the foundations of a new nation are forged through palace intrigues, fratricidal wars, and the collision of two opposing faiths. Hispania, 6th Century transports us to the turbulent reign of King Leovigild, a Visigothic monarch determined to consolidate his rule over a fragmented peninsula. His ambition drives him to found a monumental city in honor of his son Reccared, a symbol of unity and dynastic continuity. But in the shadows of the throne stirs Hermenegild, the king's eldest son, whose conversion to ...

El enmascarado del Adarve El joven Jorge Expósito, abandonado de niño en el torno de un convento de clausura, se embarcará en una gran aventura de capa y espada en la que conocerá la fuerza de la amistad. Enmascarados y armados de una buena espada toledana, pasearemos con él por la ciudad de Cáceres. Viviremos los sinsabores del siglo XVI: la pobreza, la soberbia de los nobles, la injusticia de los gentiles. Recorreremos sus callejones oscuros, deambularemos por la judería y viviremos la emoción y los peligros que trae la noche. Estaremos en primer plano de esta historia ...