History - Medieval/Middle Ages

Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes

Peter; Héloïse Abelard

The volume presents the celebrated correspondence of Peter Abelard and Heloise, accompanied by a prefatory…

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

P. L. Jacob

The work is a scholarly survey that follows the author’s earlier “Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 2 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Past Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume 2, is a scholarly edition of a medieval correspondence…

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. II

F. Marion Crawford

A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I

Henry Charles Lea

Lea’s work is a scholarly survey of the medieval Inquisition, divided into two major parts that bracket the…

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

William Holden Hutton

William Holden Hutton’s work is a compact, illustrated survey of Constantinople’s long history, aimed at…

Books and their makers during the Middle Ages: A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. II

George Haven Putnam

George Haven Putnam’s second volume of Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages offers a scholarly…

Paris and Its Story

Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey’s Paris and Its Story is a sweeping historical narrative that treats the capital of France as a…

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s historical drama King Henry V as it was staged at the Princess’s…

The treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine

Lorenzo Valla

The work is a scholarly treatise by Lorenzo Valla, a fifteenth‑century Italian humanist, that examines the…

Memorials of old Durham

The volume is a scholarly survey of Durham’s antiquities, assembled from the contributions of historians,…

Lectures on the constitution and laws of England With a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes

Francis Stoughton Sullivan

The work is a scholarly series of university lectures by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, originally…

Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)

George Thomas Clark

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns

James Gray

The work is a scholarly survey of the Norse occupation of northern Scotland, concentrating on the families of…

The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate

Charles Frederick Ward

Ce texte est une étude philologique et historique présentée comme une dissertation de doctorat, rédigée par…

Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin’s work is a scholarly biography that treats Theodoric the Ostrogoth as a pivotal, if…

The Mongols in Russia

Jeremiah Curtin

Jeremiah Curtin’s “The Mongols in Russia” is a sweeping historical study that begins by recounting the brutal…

The Two First Centuries of Florentine History The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. Fourth Impression.

Pasquale Villari

Pasquale Villari’s The Two First Centuries of Florentine History offers a scholarly survey of the Republic’s…

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2

Henry Hallam

Alcuin of York: Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908

G. F. Browne

The work is a scholarly compilation of George Forrest Browne’s lectures on the life and writings of Alcuin of…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Past Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume III is a scholarly edition of a primary source collection,…

The British battle fleet, Vol. 1 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

Fred T. Jane

The work is a scholarly survey of the British battle fleet from its myth‑laden origins to the modern…

Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Daniel Hack Tuke

The work is a concise survey of the development of care for the mentally ill across the British Isles,…

Chaucer and His England

G. G. Coulton

The work is a scholarly survey that intertwines biographical sketch, social history, and literary commentary…