The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church...
Studying Late Medieval History is an accessible introduction for undergraduate history students wishing to understand the major topics of late...
The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed...
England has traditionally been understood as a latecomer to the use of forensic medicine in death investigation, lagging nearly two-hundred years...
Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work, the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a...
Only recently have historians of the crusades begun to seriously investigate the presence of the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance, despite its...
A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the...
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and...
This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as...
First published in 1931, this book covers the broad period of time between the Christian Roman Empire instituted in the fourth century and the period...