In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin argues that the aristocrats who in...

From 1179 to 1328 relations between French Christians and Jews were chronically unstable—explo...

In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of wo...

A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle...

Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the...

At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exileor abjurationflourished in ...

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

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

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe i...