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James S. Ackerman
The Architecture of Michelangelo. (pb) £6.00
Leslie Alcock
Arthur’s Britain: History and Archaeology, AD 367-634. (hb) £6.00
Michael Alexander, trans.
Beowulf. (pb) £1.50
Paul J. Alpers, ed.
Edmund Spenser: A Critical Anthology. (pb) £4.00
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser
A History of their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present. (2 vols., pb) £3.50
Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando): A Romantic Epic; tr. Barbara Reynolds. (pb, 2 vols) £10.00
Saint Augustine
Confessions; tr. R. S. Pine-Coffin. (pb, Penguin classics) £1.50
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
The Inquisition. (pb) £6.00
Richard Barber
The Holy Grail: The History of a Legend. (pb) £6.00
Tournaments; illustrated by Anne Dalton. (hb) £4.00
Bede
A History of the English Church and People; revised edn; tr. Sherley-Price, rev. Latham. (pb, Penguin Classics) £5.00
Morris Bishop
The Penguin Book of the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Lucy M. Boston
The Stones of Green Knowe. (pb) £4.50
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lady of Avalon. (pb) £5.00
The Mists of Avalon. (pb) £6.00
Warwick Bray & David Trump
The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology. (pb) £5.00
David J. Breeze & Brian Dobson
Hadrian’s Wall; 3rd edn. (pb) £6.00
Susan Brigden
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603. (hb) £10.00
Johannes Brønsted
The Vikings. (pb) £6.00.
E. H. Carr
What is History? (pb) £2.00
Ciaran Carson, trans.
The Táin, translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge. (hb) £10.00
Charles Causley
The Ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette: A Play in Three Acts. (hb) £6.00
Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. (pb) £1.50
Nora K. Chadwick
The Celts. (pb) £4.50
Valerie E. Chancellor
Medieval and Tudor Britain. (pb) £5.00
Nicholas Chase
Locksley. (pb) £2.50
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales; trans. Nevill Coghill. (pb) £5.00
Carlo M. Cipolla
The Economic History of World Population, 7th edn. (pb) £2.00
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo da Vinci: An Account of his Development as an Artist, revised edn. (pb) £2.00
Kenneth John Conant
Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200, 2nd edn. (hb) £10.00
F. C. Copleston
Aquinas. (pb) £4.00
H. R. Ellis Davidson
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. (pb) £5.00
John Dover-Wilson, ed.
Life in Shakespeare’s England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose. (pb) £5.00
Georges Duby
The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France. (hb) £8.00
The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France. (pb) £4.00
Dorothy Dunnett
Niccolò Rising (First book in the House of Niccolò series). (pb) £5.00
The Spring of the Ram (Volume 2 in the House of Niccolò series). (pb) £5.00
Race of Scorpions (Volume 3 in the House of Niccolò series). (pb) £5.00
Richard Fletcher
Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England. (hb) £8.00
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation. (hb) £8.50
Boris Ford, ed.
A Guide to English Literature, I: The Age of Chaucer; with an anthology of medieval poems. (pb) £5.00
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: 1. Medieval Literature: Part One, Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition. (pb) £3.50
New Pelican Guide to English Literature: 2. The Age of Shakespeare. (pb) £3.50
Robin Lane Fox
Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from 2nd century to conversion of Constantine. (pb) £4.50
John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere: A Tale. (pb) £4.50
Geoffrey of Monmouth
The History of the Kings of Britain; tr. Lewis Thorpe. (pb) £2.50
Edward Gibbon
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Version; ed. Dero A. Saunders. (pb) £2.50
Godfrey Goodwin
Islamic Spain. (pb) £5.00
Roger Lancelyn Green
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold out of the old romances; ill. Lotte Reiniger. (pb) £5.00
Rita Hamilton and Janet Perry, trans.
The Poem of the Cid; intro. & notes by Ian Michael. (pb) £4.00
George Henderson
Early Medieval. (pb) £3.00
Robert Henryson
Poet to Poet; selected by Hugh MacDiarmid. (pb) £2.50
Walter Hilton
The Ladder of Perfection; tr. Leo Sherley-Price. (pb) £3.50
Pennethorne Hughes
Witchcraft. (pb) £5.00
J. Huizinga
The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th & 15th Centuries. (pb) £1.50
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Personal Writings; tr. Joseph A. Munitiz and Philip Endean. (pb) £5.00
Margaret Irwin
That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh. (pb) £2.50
Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love; trans Clifton Wolters. (pb) £4.50
Maurice Keen
English Society in the Later Middle Ages. (pb) £9.50
The Pelican History of Medieval Europe. (pb) £6.00
Paul Kocher
Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien. (pb) £4.00
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324. (pb) £6.00
William Langland
Piers the Ploughman; tr. J. F. Goodridge. (pb, Penguin Classics) £4.00
Michael Levey
Early Renaissance. (hb) £3.50
Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons, trans.
Three Tales from the Arabian Nights; intro. Robert Irwin. (hb) £5.00
Diarmid MacCullough
Reformation: Europe’s House Divided, 1490-1700. (pb. signed copy) £6.00
Colin McEvedy
The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. (pb) £5.00
James MacKillop
Myths & Legends of the Celts. (pb) £5.00
Eric Maclagan
The Bayeux Tapestry. (hb) £4.00
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince; trans. George Bull. (pb) £4.00
The Prince: a new translation; trans. Tim Parks. (pb) £5.00
Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte D’Arthur. Janet Cowan, ed.; intro. by John Lawlor. (pb, 2 vols) £6.00
A R. Myers
England in the Late Middle Ages (1307-1536), revised edn. (pb) £4.50
J. E. Neale
Queen Elizabeth I. (pb) £4.50
Charles Nicholl
Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind. (pb) £6.00
Robert Nye
Voyage of the Destiny. (pb) £6.00
Iris Origo
The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini. (pb) £5.00
Sharon Penman
The Queen’s Man. (pb) £5.00
J. H. Plumb, and others
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance. (pb) £1.50
Eileen Power
Medieval People. (pb) £3.00
Betty Radice
Who’s Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics. (pb) £2.00
Philip A. Rahtz, ed.
Rescue Archaeology. (pb) £2.50
Pietro Redondi
Galileo: Heretic (Galileo Eretico). (pb) £7.00
J. M. Roberts
Different Worlds. (hb) £5.00
Else Roesdahl
The Vikings. (hb) £6.00
The Vikings. (pb) £3.00
Miri Rubin
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary. (hb) £8.00
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary. (pb) £6.50
Steven Runciman
Byzantine Style and Civilization. (pb) £6.00
A History of the Crusades, vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. (pb) £3.50
A History of the Crusades, 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187. (pb) £3.50
A History of the Crusades, vol. 3: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. (pb) £6.50
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later 13th Century. (pb) £3.50
Sheila Sancha
The Castle Story. (pb) £3.00
J. J. Scarisbrick
Henry VIII. (pb) £6.00
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe. (pb) £5.00
Desmond Seward
The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders; revised edn. (pb) £4.00
Jacques Soustelle
Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. (pb) £5.00
R. W. Southern
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Maxwell Staniforth, trans.
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers. (pb) £2.00
Doris Mary Stenton
English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307). (pb) £2.00
Adrian Stokes
The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes. (pb) £6.00
Brian Stone, trans.
Medieval English Verse. (pb) £4.00
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 2nd edn. (pb, Penguin Classics) £2.00
Tacitus
On Britain and Germany; trans. H. Mattingly. (pb) £2.00
David Talbot Rice
Byzantine Art, revised edn. (pb) £3.00
E. M. W. Tillyard
The Elizabethan World Picture. (pb) £4.50
Shakespeare’s History Plays. (pb) £6.00
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces. (pb) £6.00
George C. Vaillant
Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, & Fall of the Aztec Nation, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.00
Walter Ullmann
Medieval Political Thought. (pb) £4.00
Randall Wallace
Braveheart. (pb) £6.00
Philip Warner
Sieges of the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Evelyn Waugh
Helena. (pb) £3.50
Geoffrey Webb
Architecture in Britain: The Middle Ages, 2nd edn. (hb) £20.00
Dorothy Whitelock
The Beginnings of English Society. (pb) £5.00
Ann Williams and G. H. Martin, eds.
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. (pb) £10.00
Gwyn A. Williams
When was Wales? A History of the Welsh. (pb) £5.00
David Wilson
The Anglo-Saxons; revised edn. (pb) £4.00
Ian Wilson
The Turin Shroud. (pb) £6.00
Justin Wintle
The Rough Guide History of Islam. (pb) £3.00
Philippe Wolff
The Awakening of Europe. (pb) £6.00
Clifton Wolters, trans.
The Cloud of Unknowing. (pb) £1.00
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works. (pb) £2.00
Philip Ziegler
The Black Death. (pb) £5.00
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