Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

The Age of Faith

Will Durant · 1,196 pages

The Story of Civilization, Volume A history of medieval civilization—Christian, Islamic, and Judaic—from Constantine to A.D. 325-1300. This is the fourth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

William Manchester · 318 pages

William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.

The History of the Franks

Gregory of Tours · 164 pages

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede · 358 pages

Magic in the Middle Ages

Richard Kieckhefer · 219 pages

"This book will approach magic as a kind of crossroads where different pathways in medieval culture converge. First of all it is a point of intersection between religion and science. Demonic magic invokes evil spirits and rests upon a network of religious beliefs and practices, while natural magic exploits "occult" powers within nature and is essentially a branch of medieval science. Yet demonic a

God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

Rodney Stark

A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Steven Runciman · 394 pages

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Tom Holland · 476 pages

**Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000** **'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting'** ALLAN MASSIE, *SPECTATOR* **'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best'** DOMINIC SANDBROOK, *EVENING STANDARD* *

Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization

Norman F. Cantor · 584 pages

Studies on the ideas and institutions of Western civilization from 200 A.D. to 1500 A.D.

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg · 177 pages

The Templars

Piers Paul Read · 368 pages

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Maria Rosa Menocal · 315 pages

A brilliant and fascinating portrait of medieval Spain explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance. of photos. 3 maps.

The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Dawn of the Renaissance

Johan Huizinga · 344 pages

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

John Boswell · 436 pages

From back cover: Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consul

Joan of Arc: A History

Helen Castor · 352 pages

The acclaimed historian Helen Castor -- bestselling author and BBC broadcaster of She-Wolves, the story of England's queens before Elizabeth I -- returns with the incredible story of Joan of Arc, as only a biographer of Castor's enormous talents can tell it. Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring gi

Dungeon, Fire And Sword: The Knights Templar In The Crusades

John J. Robinson · 494 pages

History of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior monks who occuped the scared Temple Mount in Jerusalem after the First Crusade.

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam · 441 pages

God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. --from publisher description.

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam

Bernard Lewis · 176 pages

The Templars: History & Myth

Michael Haag · 368 pages

God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Christopher Tyerman · 1,023 pages

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for two centuries, until the last Crusader castles were fi

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph & Diversity 200–1000

Peter R.L. Brown · 353 pages

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

Norman Cohn · 414 pages

The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe betwe

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie · 383 pages

"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt...Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordin

Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade

James Reston Jr. · 312 pages