medieval history

Book Reviews

• Sverre Bagge: Cross and Scepter
  The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
• Christopher I. Beckwith: The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
  A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages
• Jesse L. Byock: Medieval Iceland*
  Society, Sagas, and Power
• David H. Caldwell, et al.: The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked
  - their provenance, background, and styling
• Averil Cameron: Byzantine Matters
  - historical debates, challenges and questions
• Norman F. Cantor: Inventing the Middle Ages
  The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
• Guglielmo Cavallo: The Byzantines
  - a social history
• Eric Christiansen: The Norsemen in the Viking Age*
  - a descriptive survey staying close to the evidence
• Michael D. Coe: Angkor*
  And the Khmer Civilization
• Alan Cooper: Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400
  - bridgework obligations and the power of kings
• David Drew: The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings*
  - a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
• Georges Duby: The Legend of Bouvines
  - the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
• Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• William Wayne Farris: Japan to 1600
  A Social and Economic History
• François-Xavier Fauvelle: The Golden Rhinoceros
  Histories of the African Middle Ages
• Richard Fawcett: Scottish Medieval Churches
  The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the 12th to 16th Centuries
• Garth Fowden: Before and After Muhammad
  The First Millennium Refocused
• Peter Frankopan: The First Crusade
  The Call From the East
• Francesco Gabrieli: Arab Historians of the Crusades*
  - excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
• Patrick Galliou, Michael Jones: The Bretons
  - the history and archaeology of Brittany down to 1491
• Bronislaw Geremek: Poverty - A History*
  - with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
• Jean Gimpel: The Medieval Machine
  The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
• S.D. Goitein: A Mediterranean Society
  - the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
• Brian Golding: Conquest and Colonisation*
  The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100
• Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
  The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
• David Harrison: The Bridges of Medieval England*
  Transport and Society 400-1800
• George F. Hourani: Arab Seafaring
  In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
• Cemal Kafadar: Between Two Worlds**
  The Construction of the Ottoman State
• Maurice Keen: Medieval Warfare*
  A History
• Richard Kieckhefer: Magic in the Middle Ages*
  - an insightful study of medieval magic, demonic and natural
• Malcolm Lambert: The Cathars
  - a solid academic survey
• Jacques Le Goff: Medieval Callings
  - social history
• Beatrice Forbes Manz: The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
  - a struggle for power in 14th century Central Asia
• Dirk Meier: Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages
  - the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
• François Neveux: A Brief History of the Normans
  The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
• Zoé Oldenbourg: Massacre at Montségur
  - the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
• Nicholas Orme: Going to Church in Medieval England
  - parish churches: people, practices, paraphernalia, ...
• María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco: History of the Inca Realm
  - an ethnohistorical overview
• Steven Runciman: The Sicilian Vespers
  A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
• Peter Schmidt, et al.: Maya Civilization*
  - glorious colour photographs and scholarly papers
• Tansen Sen: Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
  The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400
• Joseph R. Strayer, Carol Lansing: The Albigensian Crusades
  - a political history of southern France in the early 13th century
• Adriaan Verhulst: The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe
  - the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt
• Stefan Weinfurter: The Salian Century
  - the German monarchy, 1024 to 1125
• Alison Weir: The Princes in the Tower
  - whodunnit: Richard III or Henry VII?
• Mark Whittow: The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025
  - as a Greek-speaking, orthodox empire
• Herwig Wolfram: The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples
  - Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
• Marilyn Yalom: Birth of the Chess Queen
  - powerful women and chess in medieval Europe

See also: ancient history | historical fiction | history

I realise the inclusion of works on areas outside Europe and West Asia in a "medieval history" category is problematic.