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....

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

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

The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....

In these vivid and approachable essays, Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation....

Asbridge charts the unparalleled rise to prominence of a man bound to a code of honor yet driven by unquenchable ambition....

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....

Gregory the Great (bishop of Rome from 590 to 604) is one of the most significant figures in the history of Christianity....

The Knights Templar has established itself as the most popular military organization of medieval times. Everyone has heard of the order, and everyone is familiar with the image of a medieval Crusader knight with a red cross on their white uniform....

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.