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Abelard and Heloise
The Story of His Misfortunes and The Personal Letters; trans. Betty Radice. (hb, Folio Soc.) £6.00

Richard Barber, ed. & trans.
Legends of King Arthur. (3 vols, hb, Folio Soc.) £35.00
The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, from contemporary letters, diaries & chronicles, including Chandos Herald’s Life of the Black Prince. (hb) £9.50

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy; tr. V. E. Watts. (hb) £6.00

Johann Burchard
At the Court of the Borgia, an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI; trans. Geoffrey Parker. (hb) £6.00

Ferdinand Columbus; trans. Benjamin Keen
The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his son Ferdinand; tr. Benjamin Keen. (hb) £6.00

Philippe de Commynes
The Universal Spider: The Life of Louis XI of France. (hb) £6.00

Bernal Diaz
The Conquest of New Spain; trans. J. M. Cohen. (hb) £10.00

Einhard the Frank
The Life of Charlemagne; trans. Lewis Thorpe. (hb) £3.50

Erasmus
Praise of Folly. Betty Radice, trans. (hb) £6.00

Christopher Falkus, ed.
The Private Lives of the Tudor Monarchs. (hb) £6.00

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, gen. ed.
A History of England: (i): P. Hunter Blair, Anglo-Saxon England; (ii): M. T. Clanchy, Early Medieval England; (iii): M. H. Keen, England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History. (hb) £30.00 for 3‑vol. set

Geoffrey of Monmouth
The History of the Kings of Britain; tr. Lewis Thorpe. (hb) £6.00

Edward Gibbon
Memoirs of My Life; ed. Betty Radice. (hb) £10.00

George Greenaway, ed.
The Life and Death of Thomas Becket, based on the account of William fitzStephen, with additions from other contemporary sources. (hb) £6.00

J. C. Holt
Robin Hood. (hb) £11.50

Henry Kamen
The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. (hb) £10.00

Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe; trans. B. A. Windeatt; pref. by Alice Thomas Ellis. (hb) £18.50

[Anon.]
Laxdaela Saga, trans. Magnusson & Pálsson. (hb) £12.00

Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England from 1485 to 1685; comp. Peter Rowland. (hb) £9.00

Maria Perry
Elizabeth I: The Word of a Prince, A Life from Contemporary Documents. (hb, Folio Soc.) £6.00

Piccolomini (Pius II)
Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: The Commentaries of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II; an abridgment; trans. Florence A. Gragg, ed. Leona C. Gabel. (hb) £15.00

Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo; Ronald Latham, trans. (hb) £8.00

Eileen Power, trans.
The Goodman of Paris: A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by A Citizen of Paris c.1393. (hb) £8.00

Procopius
The Secret History; tr. G. A. Williamson; intro. Philip Ziegler. (hb) £10.00

Fernando de Rojas
The Spanish Bawd, being the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea; trans. J. M. Cohen. (hb) £6.00

A. L. Rowse, ed.
A Man of Singular Virtue, being A Life of Sir Thomas More by his son-in-law William Roper and a selection of More’s Letters. (hb) £6.00

Steven Runciman
A History of the Crusades. (hb, 3 vol. set) £30.00

Shota Rustaveli
The Knight in Panther Skin; trans. Katharine Vivian. (hb, Folio Soc.) £8.00

W. S. Scott, trans.
The Trial of Joan of Arc, Being a verbatim report of the proceedings from the Orleans Manuscript. (hb) £5.00

Sellar and Yeatman
1066 and All That; illustrated by John Reynolds. (hb) £6.50

Lewis Thorpe, trans.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Invasion from the contemporary account of William of Poitiers. (hb) £6.00

Raleigh Trevelyan
Shades of the Alhambra. (hb) £3.00

Giorgio Vasari
Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. (hb) £6.00
Lives of the Artists: A Selection; tr. George Bull. (hb) £35.00 for 3‑vol set

Helen Waddell
Songs of the Wandering Scholars; ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan. (hb) £10.00

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