This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church...

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal adm...

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a...

The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike nort...

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile-or abjuration-flourished i...

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal adm...

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a...

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no ...

From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable--exploit...

The active role of women in the labor force is not limited to recent decades, or even to the last...

In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular...

Manumission--the freeing of serfs--was of major significance to medieval French society. William ...

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

'Historians talk about comparative history. Professor Jordan has done it: two monasteries, two ab...

Corruption is a preoccupation of governments and societies across place and time, from the 18th-1...

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church...

Taking Professor Natalie Zemon Davis' fascinating biographical studies of three Women on the Marg...

'The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects.'--Ne...