Melisende's Library

Synopsis: This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Pla...

Based on a true story, this tale of passion and revenge brings the past to life. Normandy in 1118 is a hotbed of malcontent barons kept in f...

"Vikings of the Irish Sea:  Conflict and Assimilation Ad 790-1050"   looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a ba...

Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption tha...

BOSTON, Dec. 28, 2022 / PRNewswire / -- Author Amelia Rogers' novel, " Four Princesses from Provence ," highlights the importa...

Synopsis: Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and...

Synopsis: A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England. In the eleventh centu...

Synopsis: Royal murder mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. Here are some of the most haunting and even horrific episode...

Synopsis: In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy and ultimately changed th...

From The Bookseller : W H Allen has landed the "remarkable" Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Oxford University lecture...

Synopsis: Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the A...

This important exploration of the reign of Edward I – one of England's most lionised, feared and successful monarchs – presents his king...

Synopsis: Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible e...

Synopsis: The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser...

Synopsis: Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power...

Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture: England and Germany, c.1215 - c.1250 by Bjorn Weiler Taking as its starting point two uprisings...

Kings, Usurpers and Concubines explores the representation of sea kings, sinners, and saints in the mid-thirteenth century Chronicles of th...

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

Synopsis: The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with ...

Synopsis: The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England, enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and 11...