Medieval European Archaeology

The demographic composition of cemeteries, burial rites and mortuary behaviour are considered alongside the political and landscape context of burial. This volume brings together a series of studies concerned with aspects of the archaeology of burial in early medieval England and Wales during the pe..

Charles I of Anjou (1225-85), brother of St Louis, was one of the most controversial figures of thirteenth-century Europe. A royal adventurer, who carved out a huge Mediterranean power block, as ruler of Provence, Jerusalem and the kingdom of Naples as well as Anjou, he changed for good the politica..

Charles I of Anjou (1225-85), brother of St Louis, was one of the most controversial figures of thirteenth-century Europe. A royal adventurer, who carved out a huge Mediterranean power block, as ruler of Provence, Jerusalem and the kingdom of Naples as well as Anjou, he changed for good the politica..

The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the major European states...

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Topics covered include medieval Germany, technical problems in the medieval economy and society, and the medieval class structure...

The first history in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on vividly translated Arab sources, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492...

This is the first major study in English which examines the whole reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180xxx;1223. Outshone for posterity by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful than any of them, astute..

The aim of the volume is to bring together the latest research on the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology.  It is structured in three sections: design and function, landscape and urban context, and architectural fo..

This volume explores the making of art and architecture in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1250, with a focus on patronage, design and instrumentality...

This volume explores the making of art and architecture in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1250, with a focus on patronage, design and instrumentality...

The Archaeology of Medieval Germany..

The Archaeology of the 11th Century explores this formative period of English history and in particular the impact of the Conquest of England by the Normans. The volume examines how the Normans contributed to local culture, religion and society through a range of topics including food culture, funer..