Melisende's Library

Synopsis: It is the year 833, and in the land of the East Angles, the rains have failed. The poor pray and starve. Then foreign hermits ent...

Synopsis: In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the...

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...

From The Daily Mail : From monks thought to have died from a lack of sex, to priests conjuring demons to lure women into bed, a new book off...

Synopsis: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud is the explosive international bestseller that mixes fact and fiction to tell the riveting st...

Synopsis: Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thous...

An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century. P...

The Unconquered Knight:  A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Niño, Count of Buelna by  Gutierre Diaz de Gamez The heroic exploits of the ...

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

Synopsis:   East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country’s secret police, the Stasi, developed a highl...

Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais...

Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop. Like their predecessors, these bishops were key members of the regn...

The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of...

The Apostles of Satan by F Scott Kimmich Caught up in the turbulent politics in the land of the Troubadours at the beginning of the 13th ...

From Church Times : Derek Wilson’s The Queen and the Heretic: How two women changed the religion of England describes itself as a dual ...

From Christianity Today : Story, at its heart, is one of the primary modes in which God speaks to us, which means it’s one of the main vehi...

Synopsis: The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping on...

Randy Dontigo reviews for  Christian Science Monitor :  Ben Franklin seems like the rare founding father who'd actually be fun to hang ...

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North by William R. Polk is strictly academic in both to...