A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror—a pivotal figure in British and European history"[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England …
A life of Matilda—empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages “[Matilda] will attract a growing audience interested in stories of …
A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea …
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen“Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye …
The first in a groundbreaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule “Professor Carpenter is one of Britain’s foremost medievalists. . . . No one knows more about Henry, and a …
A life of Matilda—empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages“[Matilda] will attract a growing audience interested in stories of …
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler …
"e;A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in colonial Indian affairs."e;(Journal of Modern History)In this …
Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the …
Peter the Great (1672-1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his …
