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Yoko Wada, ed.
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse. (hb) £14.50


Helen Waddell


Edward Wagenknecht, ed.
Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism. (pb) £6.00


Sir Anthony Wagner
English Ancestry. (pb) £4.50.
English Genealogy, 3rd edn. (hb) £6.00
(with J. C. Sainty): The Origins of the Introduction of Peers in the House of Lords. (pb) £8.00


Edmund Wainwright
Tolkien’s Mythology for England: A Middle-Earth Companion. (hb) £5.00


F. W. Walbank
The Decline of the Roman Empire in the West. (hb) £6.00


Robert Walcott
The Tudor-Stuart Period of English History (1485-1714): A Review of Changing Interpretations. (pb) £4.00


Milton Waldman
The Lady Mary: A Biography of Mary Tudor, 1516-1558. (hb) £4.00


Daniel Waley
The Italian City-Republics; 3rd edn. (pb) £13.50
Later Medieval Europe: from St. Louis to Luther. (hb) £6.00
Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century. (hb) £45.00


Curtis Howe Walker
Eleanor of Aquitaine. (pb) £5.00


Leonard Walker
Background to Domesday in Hertfordshire and Essex. (pb) £3.50


Paul Robert Walker
The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World. (hb) £6.00


Rose Walker
Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain. (hb) £10.00


J. Charles Wall
Devils: Their Origins and History. (pb) £3.50


David Wallace
Boccaccio: Decameron. (pb) £5.00


Anne Wallace-Hadrill, Norman Davis, Douglas Gray, Patricia Ingham
A Chaucer Glossary. (pb) £13.00


J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
The Barbarian West 400-1000. (hb) £6.00


Luitpold Wallach
Diplomatic Studies in Latin and Greek Documents from the Carolingian Age. (hb) £10.00


John Waller
A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Dancing Plague of 1518. (hb) £7.50


Michael Walsh
A Dictionary of Devotions. (hb) £10.00


William Thomas Walsh
Isabella the Crusader. (pb) £5.00


John Koumoulides and Christopher Walter
Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments at Aghia in Thessaly, Greece: Art & Architecture of the Monastery of Saint Panteleimon; foreword by Steven Runciman. (pb) £15.00


Humfrey Wanley, eds. C. E. Wright & Ruth c. Wright
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726. £50.00 for 2 volumes


Sir A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. (hb) £6.00
The Cambridge History of English Literature: vol. II, The End of the Middle Ages. (hb) £5.00


Benedicta Ward
High King of Heaven: Aspects of Early English Spirituality. (pb) £6.00


J. S. M. Ward
Brasses. (hb) £2.50


Jennifer C. Ward
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century. (pb) £10.00
The Honour of Clare in Suffolk in the Early Middle Ages. (pb) £4.50


Michael Ward
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. (hb) £8.00


Paul Warde
Ecology, Economy and State formation in Early Modern Germany. (hb) £20.00


R. M. Ward
(w/ J. M. Rogers): Süleyman the Magnificent. [Exhibition catalogue] (pb) £6.00


E. E. Wardale
Chapters on Old English Literature. (hb) £10.00


K. R. Wark
Elizabethan Recusancy in Cheshire. (hb) £10.00


Anthony Warner
Complementation in Middle English and the Methodology of Historical Syntax: A Study of the Wycliffite Sermons. (hb) £15.00


J. Christopher Warner
Henry VIII’s Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press. (hb) £15.00


Marina Warner
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. (pb) £6.00
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. (pb) £4.00
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form. (pb) £4.00


Philip Warner
Sieges of the Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
Sieges of the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00


Retha M. Warnicke
The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Tudor England. (hb) £6.00


Nancy Warren, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, eds.
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Religious Literature. (hb) £25.00


W. L. Warren
Henry II. (pb) £5.00


Julian N. Wasserman & Lois Roney, eds.
Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature. (pb) £10.00


P. Leslie Waterhouse
The Story of Architecture throughout the Ages; revised edn. (hb) £3.00


Peter Watkins
Bolton Priory and its Church. (pb) £3.00


Thomas G. Watkin, ed.
Legal Record & Historical Reality: the 8th British Legal History Conference, 1987. (hb) £5.00


Alan Watson
Legal Origins and Legal Change. (hb) £6.00


Christabel Watson
Crusading Through Turkey. (hb) £15.00


Michael Watson and Chris Musson
Shropshire from the Air: Man and the Landscape. (pb) £8.00


Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy’s Tomb Raiders to the World’s Greatest Museums. (hb) £5.00


D. E. R. Watt
Medieval Church Councils in Scotland. (hb) £10.00


Diane Watt, ed.
Medieval Women in their Communities. (pb) £10.00


Scott L. Waugh
England in the Reign of Edward III. (hb) £20.00


Andrew Wawn, ed.
Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga. (hb) £8.00


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Albert E. Webb
Glastonbury Abbey: A Hasty Story of the Abbey and a Descriptive Guide to the Abbey Ruins. (pb) £6.50


Diana Webb
Pilgrims & pilgrimage in Medieval England. (hb) £11.00


Geoffrey Webb
Architecture in Britain: The Middle Ages, 2nd edn. (hb) £20.00
Gothic Architecture in England. (pb) £4.50


Ronald Webber
The Peasants’ Revolt: The Uprising in Kent, Essex, East Anglia and London in 1381 during the Reign of King Richard II. (hb) £8.50


Eugen Weber
Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs throughout the Ages. (hb) £6.00


Gottfried Weber & Werner Hoffmann
Gottfried von Strassburg. (pb) £5.00


Bruce Webster
Scotland from the Eleventh Century to 1603. (pb) £6.00


Christopher Webster, ed.
'Temples … Worthy of His Presence': The Early Publications of the Cambridge Camden Society: the complete texts of eight important pamphlets published between 1839 and 1843 with a critical analysis. (pb) £4.50


Leslie Webster, Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, eds.
The Golden Age of Anglo Saxon Art, 966-1066. (pb) £10.00


Harry E. Wedeck
Dictionary of Magic. (hb) £10.00


C. V. Wedgwood
Velvet Studies. (hb) £5.00
William the Silent. (pb) £6.00


Arthur Weigall
Wanderings in Anglo-Saxon Britain. (hb) £6.00


Christine Weightman
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy 1446-1503. (hb) £7.00


Peter Weimar, ed.
Die Renaissance der Wissenschaften im 12. Jahrhundert. (pb) £6.00


Alison Weir
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess. (pb) £6.50
The Six Wives of Henry VIII. (hb) £6.00


James M. Weiss
Humanist Biography in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany: Friendship and Rhetoric. (hb) £45.00


Judith Weiss, Jennifer Fellows and Morgan Dickson, eds.
Medieval Insular Romance: Translation and Innovation. (hb) £14.50


René Weis
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329. (hb) £6.00


Roberto Weiss
The Dawn of Humanism in Italy. (pb) £5.00


Kurt Weitzmann
The Icon: Holy Images 6th to 14th Century. (hb) £12.00
Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. (pb) £9.00


Martin Welch
English Heritage Book of Anglo-Saxon England. (hb) £7.00


Emmy Wellesz
The Vienna Genesis. (hb) £8.50


Colin Wells
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. (hb) £12.00


William Wells [Exhibition guide].
Figure and Ornamental Subjects. Stained and Painted Glass: Burrell Collection. (pb) £6.50


Jean Welsford
Cirencester: A History and Guide. (pb) £4.50


François Wendel
Calvin: The Origins and Development of his Religious Thought. (pb) £6.00


Marian Wenzel
Finding Out about the Byzantines. (hb) £5.00


Claude Wenzler
The Kings of France. (pb) £3.00


William H. Werkmeister, ed.
Facets of the Renaissance. (pb) £12.50


Margaret Wertheim
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. (hb) £10.00


Klaus Wessel
The Last Supper. (hb) £8.00


John West
Joan of Arc. (pb) £5.00
Our Norman Heritage. (pb) £5.00


Richard West
Chaucer, 1340-1400: The Life and Times of the First English Poet. (hb) £6.00


Matthias Westerhoff
Das Paulusverständnis in Liber Graduum. (hb) £25.00


Winthrop Wetherbee
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. (pb) £3.00


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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Alms for Oblivion: An Antiquary’s Scrapbook. (hb) £6.00


R. J. B. Whinney and P. J. Fasham, eds.
Archaeology and the M3: Watching Brief, the Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Abbots Worthy and Retrospective Sections. (pb) £10.00


Keith Whinnom
Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature: Selected Essays. (hb) £10.00


J. W. Whiston
Croxall, Staffs. — An Air Photograph of a Deserted Medieval Village. (pb) £4.50


Ælred Whitacre, OP, et al.
St. Thomas Aquinas: papers read at celebrations of the 6th centenary of the canonization, 1924. (hb) £12.50


Meadows White
Westminster Abbey; photographs by Derrick L. Sayer. (hb) £5.00


Michael White
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the man Who Dared to Defy the Inquisition. (hb, US edn.) £7.00


Paul White
King Arthur: Man or Myth? 2nd edn. (pb) £1.50


Rosamund M. White
The Birth of England, from Stone Age to Norman Conquest: Terminal Book B. (pb) £4.50


Jeffery W. Whitelaw
Hertfordshire Churches and Other Places of Worship. (pb) £3.50


Dorothy Whitelock
The Beginnings of English Society. (pb) £5.00


Robin Whiteman
The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael; intro. Ellis Peters. (hb, 1991 edn.) £15.00
(w/ Rob Talbot): Cadfael Country: Shropshire & the Welsh Border; intro. Ellis Peters. (hb) £15.00


Lesley Whiteside
(photography by Paul Larmour): Saint Patrick in Stained Glass. (hb) £4.50
The Spirituality of St. Patrick. (pb) £3.50


Ralph Whitlock
In Search of Lost Gods: A Guide to British Folklore. (hb) £3.50
The Warrior Kings of Saxon England. (hb) £6.00


Philip Whitting, ed.
Byzantium: An Introduction. (hb) £6.50


Arthur Whittingham
Norwich Cathedral Bosses and Misericords. (pb) £4.50


Martyn J. Whittock
A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends. (pb) £5.00
Investigating History: Medieval Britain 1066-1500. (pb) £5.00


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Chris Wickham
Communità e clientele nella Toscana del XII secolo: Le origini del comune rurale nella Piana di Lucca. (pb) £11.00
Legge, pratiche e conflitti: Tribunali e risoluzione delle dispute nella Toscana del XII secolo. (pb) £20.00


Merry E. Wiesner
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. (pb) £7.50


Colin Wiggins, with Richard Cork and Jennifer Sliwka
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. (pb) £5.00


Peter DeSa Wiggins
Figures in Ariosto’s Tapestry: Character and Design inthe Orlando Furioso. (hb) £6.00


R. H. Wilenski
Royal Portraits. (pb) £8.00


H. J. Wilkins
Was John Wycliffe a Negligent Pluralist? also, John de Trevisa: His Life and Work. (hb) £18.00


Nigel Wilkins
Music in the Age of Chaucer; 2nd edn., with Chaucer Songs. (pb) £10.00


F. Wilkinson
Let’s Look at Arms and Armour. (pb) £2.50


L. P. Wilkinson
Ovid Surveyed, an abridgement for the general reader of “Ovid Recalled”. (pb) £10.00


Raymond Stewart Wilkinson
The Church and Parish of Abbots Langley. (hb) £6.50


Charity Cannon Willard
Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works. (hb) £18.50


A. H. Williams
An Introduction to the History of Wales, vol. 1: Prehistoric Times to 1063 A.D. (hb) £7.00


Brenda Williams
Secrets of the Domesday Book. (pb) £2.50


D. T. Williams
The Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485. (pb) £2.50


David Price Williams, Leslie Grinsell, Philip Rahtz
The Preparation of Archaeological Reports; 2nd edn. (hb) £3.00


Gwyn A. Williams
Medieval London: From Commune to Capital. (pb) £14.50
When was Wales? A History of the Welsh. (pb) £5.00
Madoc: The Making of a Myth (The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America). (pb) £12.50


Michael A. Williams
Researching Local History: The Human Journey. (pb) £10.00


Neville Williams
Elizabeth I: Queen of England. (pb) £1.00
The Life and Times of Elizabeth I. (hb) £2.00


Schafer Williams, ed.
The Gregorian Epoch: Reformation, Revolution, Reaction? (pb) £7.00


Tom Williamson
The Origins of Hertfordshire. (hb) £14.00


Arthur J. Willis
Genealogy for Beginners, 2nd edn. (hb) £2.50


Adele Wills
Texts Through History. (hb) £20.00


Garry Wills
Saint Augustine. (pb) £5.00


E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
The Story of Jeanne d’Arc. (hb) £10.00


David Wilson
The Anglo-Saxons; revised edn. (pb) £4.00
The Anglo-Saxons. (hb) £6.00
(w/ P. G. Foote): The Viking Achievement. (hb) £8.50
The Vikings and their Origins: Scandinavia in the First Millenium. (hb) £6.00
The Vikings and their Origins. (hb, large format, illustrated) £9.50
The Vikings and their Origins: Scandinavia in the First Millennium, revised edn. (pb) £3.50


Derek Wilson
Charlemagne: The Great Adventure. (hb) £6.00
Luther: Out of the Storm. (pb) £10.00
A Brief History of the English Reformation. (pb) £5.00


Ian Wilson
The Turin Shroud. (pb) £3.00


Joy Wilson
Tristan and Iseult: A Cornish Love Story. (pb) £2.50


K. J. Wilson
Incomplete Fictions: the Formation of English Renaissance Dialogue. (hb) £15.00


R. M. Wilson
Early Middle English Literature; 2nd edn. (hb) £7.50
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00


Roger J. A. Wilson
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain, 3rd edn. (hb) £6.00


Trea Wiltshire
Angkor: Celestial Cities of the Khmer Empire. (hb) £5.00


James I. Wimsatt
Chaucer and his French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century. (pb) £9.00
Chaucer and the Poems of ‘Ch’ in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15. (hb) £15.00


Martin Winkler
Holidays of the Church. (hb) £6.50


A. J. Winnington-Ingram
Monumental Brasses in Hereford Cathedral; 3rd edn.; rev. F. C. & P. E. Morgan. (pb) £2.00


Richard Winston
Charlemagne: from the Hammer to the Cross. (hb) £12.00
Thomas Becket. (hb) £6.00


Justin Wintle
The Rough Guide History of Islam. (pb) £3.00


Roy Wisbey
Tristan: On Being the Contemporary of Gottfried von Straßburg. (pb) £4.50


T. P. Wiseman and Christopher Holdsworth, eds
The Inheritance of Historiography, 350-900. (pb) £8.00


Benjamin C. Withers and Rebecca Barnhouse, eds
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches. (pb) £15.00


Hartley Withers
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury: A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See, 3rd edn. (hb, Bell’s Cathedral Series) £6.00


Joseph. S. Wittig
Piers Plowman Concordance. (hb) £50.00


Rudolf Wittkower
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism; 3rd edn. (pb) £6.00


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Alois Wolf, ed.
Gottfried von Strassburg. (hb) £10.00


B. P. Wolffe
The Crown Lands 1461-1536. (pb) £7.00
Yorkist and Early Tudor Government, 1461-1509. (pb) £2.50


Philippe Wolff
The Awakening of Europe. (pb) £6.00


Diana Wood, ed.
Women and Religion in Medieval England. (pb) £12.50


Frances Wood
Did Marco Polo go to China? (pb) £10.00


Henry Wood
Chaucer’s Influence upon King James I of Scotland as Poet. (hb) £25.00


Jeremy Wood
The Nativity. (hb) £6.00


John Wood and Trevor Rowley
Deserted Villages, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50


Marguerite Wood
(w/ J. S. Richardson): Melrose Abbey; rev. C. J. Tabraham. (pb) £5.00


Melusine Wood
Historical Dances (12th to 19th Century): their manner of performance and their place in the social life of the time: student’s edition; foreword by Cyril Beaumont. (pb) £12.00


Michael Wood
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England. (hb) £6.00
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England. (pb) £6.00
The Domesday Quest: The Search for the Roots of England. (pb) £4.00
In Search of the Dark Ages. (pb) £6.00
In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past. (hb) £6.00


S. R. J. Woodell, ed.
The English Landscape, Past, Present and Future. (hb) £4.50


Douglas Woodruff
Charlemagne. (hb) £6.00
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great. (hb) £3.50


Paul Woods and Gavin Baddeley
God’s Assassins: The Medieval Roots of Terrorism. (pb) £5.00


William Woods
England in the Age of Chaucer. (hb) £6.00


D. M. Woodward
The Trade of Elizabethan Chester. (pb) £8.00


G. W. O. Woodward
The Dissolution of the Monasteries. (pb) £2.00


T. H. Woodwark
The Crosses in the North York Moors; 3rd edn. (pb) £6.00


Judith Woolf
Pen to paper: An Essay-Writer’s Guide. (pb) £3.50


Herbert B. Workman
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal, from the Earliest Times down to the Coming of the Friars. (hb) £10.00


Francis Wormald
The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold. (hb) £8.00


Roger Worsley and Wyn Evans
Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi/St. David’s Cathedral 1181-1981/La Cathedrale de St. David’s/St. Davis Kathedrale. (hb) £7.00


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C. L. Wrenn and Randolph Quirk
An Old English Grammar. (pb) £3.50


A. C. Wright
South-East Essex in the Danish and Norman Periods. (pb) £5.00


C. E. Wright
English Heraldic Manuscripts in the British Museum. (pb) £4.50


Geoffrey N. Wright
Discovering Abbeys and Priories. (pb) £3.50


J. W. Wright Jr. and Everett K. Rowson, eds.
Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. (pb) £12.00


Louis B. Wright
Magna Carta and the Tradition of Liberty. (hb) £4.00


Ann Wroe
A Fool and his Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town. (hb) £6.00


Robert Halley Wyllie
The Role of the Virtue of Prudence in the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas. (pb) £9.50


Kenneth Wykeham-George and Gervase Mathew
Bede Jarrett of the Order of Preachers. (hb) £6.00


Martin Wyld, Susan Foister, Ashok Roy
Making and Meaning: Holbein’s Ambassadors. (pb) £30.00


D. B. Wyndham Lewis; intro. by Hilaire Belloc
François Villon: A Documented Survey. (hb) £7.00


Marion Wynn-Davies, ed.
The Renaissance, From 1500 to 1660. (pb) £3.50


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