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The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or ignored. This book traces the history of this native Celtic people through the troubled centuries.

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The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. This richly illustrated book casts an entirely new light on its history.

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Prokopios' Secret History, circa 550, presents the author's disillusionment with the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian.

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Analyses the political relationships between the Clyde Britons and their Anglo-Saxon neighbours; explains how the kingdom of Strathclyde, or Cumbria, became one of the great powers of the time; describes the origins of the English county of Cumberland and the western section of the English-Scottish border.

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Reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors - from the existential condition and natural disasters to the succession of wars and other man-made catastrophes. In chapters that range across Western history and culture, this book takes up religion, the material world, and the world of art and knowledge in turn.

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A critical edition, with facing English translation, of the Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan. It has long been recognized that the surviving Welsh text is a translation of an original Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, and it has always been assumed that the original Latin life had been lost.

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Two classic books are brought together here.

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This introductory text, the first of its kind, explores the central relationship between the kings of England and their bishops, from the Norman Conquest to the Magna Carta. Wickson provides an approachable overview of the scholarship on this key subject, making this an ideal starting-point for anyone who is studying high medieval England.

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The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity. It is both an up-to-date narrative of the growth of the English state and a guide to recent historiography.

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A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. In this reissued edition, he describes the Arthurian age as "the starting point of future British history", for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain.

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On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them . They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. This book aims to explore what it was like to be alive in the that year. It describes matters of state and domestic life of the medieval world.

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The first full biography of the five remarkable daughters of Edward I.

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Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.

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This text provides an insight into the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a nun in medieval Germany. Hildegard was a religious leader, poet, visionary, a writer of medical treatises, and a composer. Through her writings, this book presents her views on sex, love and marriage, medicine and music.

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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

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In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some were sensible herbal cures, many were weird and wonderful. This book selects some of the most revolting or remarkable remedies from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

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The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War,'one of the great historical undertakings of our age' (Dan Jones, Sunday Times).

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This history of the Renaissance surveys the extraordinary impact of this culture which dramatically affected Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. It examines the social, commercial and political background which enabled the arts to flourish at this time.

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The first major single history of the Wars of the Roses for decades, written by renowned popular and military historian, Trevor Royle