Melisende's Library

Synopsis: A new novel inspired by the true historical account of one man and his penchant for murder and misogyny in the medieval Roman Cat...

The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to lib...

Synopsis: It is 1522, The Spanish Netherlands, Juan Luis Vives, a renowned academic, has fled Spain to avoid the fires of the Inquisition, ...

Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by  Joshua Teplitsky The story of one ...

This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England an...

From  The Guardian : The Black Prince derives from a plan Anthony Burgess made for a novel in the early 1970s, and then turned into a ...

Daniel Lazare reviews Chris Wickham's Medieval Europe for History News Network : How times change. Thirty years ago, Chris Wickham ...

A couple of interesting looking books have crossed my desktop recently, which I thought I would share. Beyond the Northlands: Viking ...

The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon by Monique O'Connell In The Mediterranean World, Monique O’...

A selection of tomes on the history of the Baltic region The Baltic: A new history of the region and its peoples  by Alan Palmer.  Th...

If preparing Christmas dinner in your household seems exhausting, spare a thought for the Royal kitchen of Henry III. Over Christmas i...

Review by   Daniel Aloi  of Cornell University in the  Cornell Chronicle In his new book, “ Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art ,”...

URI history professor edits book about death in Medieval Europe – URI Today The essays by Rollo-Koster and other scholars explore the cul...