Best Medieval Towns In England - April 2024

Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)

From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair” in August and the “Cold Fair” in December. Europea... [Read More]

• ASIN: B003JBHV04
• ASIN: B003JBHV04
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

View our Ken Follett feature page. Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic—a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral—stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity

• ASIN: 0451166892
• ASIN: 0451166892
• ISBN: 0451166892
• Brand: Signet
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Raven in the Foregate (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 12)

When a harsh priest is drowned, Brother Cadfael discovers a long list of suspects, including a young man who isn’t who he claims to beIn a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew—and a disposition that invites murder. Brother Cadfael quickly sees that father Ailnoth is a harsh man who, striding along in his black cassock, looks like a doomsaying raven. The housekeeper’s nephew, Benet, is quite different—a smiling lad, a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00LUZNWJA
• ASIN: B00LUZNWJA
• Manufacturer: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

The Golden Crucifix: A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery (Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mysteries Book 1)

King's Coroner Matthew Cordwainer investigates the deaths by strangulation of three city prostitutes in thirteenth-century York. The investigation is complicated by the Sheriff of York’s desire to use suspicion of the murders to arrest a thief and smuggler whom Cordwainer is certain is not the culprit, and it is hindered by Cordwainer’s advanced age and physical infirmities. When Cordwainer realizes that the Prioress of Clementhorpe will be the next victim and the Sheriff refuses to help, Cordwainer must call on every resource he can find to stop the killer.

• ASIN: B0797H6HTJ
• ASIN: B0797H6HTJ

The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries Book 1)

Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks like a drowning. Soon, however, Nicholas finds evidence of murder. Who could have wanted to kill this promising student? As Nicholas and his scholar friend Jordain try to unravel what lies behind William’s death, they learn that he was innocently caught up in a criminal plot. When their investigations begin to involve town, university, and abbey, Nicholas takes a risky gamble – and puts his family in terrible danger.

• ASIN: B01H7FQ67G
• ASIN: B01H7FQ67G
• Manufacturer: Shakenoak Press

Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)

• ASIN: 0394743121
• ASIN: 0394743121
• ISBN: 0394743121
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Birds Without Wings

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is enga... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400079322
• ASIN: 1400079322
• ISBN: 9781400079322
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Size: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics)

Domesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history—and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Latin, together with an index of places and a glossary of terms used. Domesday was compiled in a matter of months in 1086, at the end of William the Conqueror’s life. According to a first-hand account by Robert, Bishop of Hereford, those sent out by the king “. . . made a survey of all England; of the lands in each of the countries; of the possessions of each of the magnates, their lands, their ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0141439947
• ASIN: 0141439947
• ISBN: 0141439947
• Brand: Penguin Classics
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

• ASIN: 0060006935
• ASIN: 0060006935
• ISBN: 0060006935
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his three children?In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village on the southern edge of Exmoor. The bulk of Mor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300098251
• ASIN: 0300098251
• ISBN: 0300098251
• Brand: Yale University Press
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

One Hundred & One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain (101 Beautiful Small Towns)

A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy and One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain’s countryside are among the most charming and unchanged in Europe’s history. Readers will want to roam the countryside: from the Norman castle towns of the southeast to the spectacular Roman architecture of Bath and St. Albans, and from Celtic cottage farms in the Scottish lowlands to the stone and ir... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847830500
• ASIN: 0847830500
• ISBN: 0847830500
• Brand: Brand: Rizzoli
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation

A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary   When Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within years, their author was not just famous, but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war.   Luther came o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399563237
• ASIN: 0399563237
• ISBN: 9780399563232
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Oval Tablecloth for Thanksgiving, Catering Events, Dinner Parties, Special Occasions or Everyday Use Famous Telephone Booth and The Big Ben in England Street View Symbols of Town Retro 64 x120inch Re

Why you choose our tablecloth? A versatility easy care polyester tablecloth is your best choice, made from eco-friendly material. Durable than any other plastic table cover. Because of their heavy construction and mufti-functional feature can perfectly protect your table and also drope beautifully over your table decorative. Dress up your table for that special occasion while protecting the table from spills, dents or scratches.Refresh any worn or dated table. Customized pattern with various colors. Perfect for picnics, BBQ's, parties, dinners, restaurants, weddings, baby showers, everyday and... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07VS6JBWJ
• ASIN: B07VS6JBWJ
• Brand: Sweetg Tablecloths
• Size: 64" x 120" Oval
• Manufacturer: HongKong Fudan Investment Co., Limited

Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7)

An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive--a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.

• ASIN: 014029435X
• ASIN: 014029435X
• ISBN: 014029435X
• Manufacturer: Penguin

Stratford-upon-Avon

• ASIN: B01N16IJBB
• ASIN: B01N16IJBB

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia

Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape

• UPC: 475412052

The Medieval Town in England 1200-1540 - eBook

This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The essays span the period from the dramatic urban expansion

• UPC: 904976488

Towns in Medieval England : Selected Sources

Towns in Medieval England: Selected

• UPC: 51333615

The Queen's Beasts on the Bridge Leading to Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, London, England Print Wall Art By Walter Rawlings

Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

• UPC: 424987414
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

The Queen's Beasts on the Bridge Leading to Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, London, England Framed Print Wall Art By Walter Rawlings

Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. Using the finest materials, our framing craftsmen will

• UPC: 107330853
• Color: BrownPecan
• Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

The Queen's Beasts on the Bridge Leading to Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, London, England Stretched Canvas Print Wall Art By Walter Rawlings

This stretched canvas print is the result of sophisticated digital printing technology in which the image is printed directly onto an artist-grade, 100% cotton canvas. The canvas is then expertly stretched around 1.5" wooden bars

• UPC: 188687064
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns : Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, C. 800-1100

The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800-1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements.

• UPC: 24177665

Towns in Medieval England : Selected Sources

9780719049088

• UPC: 51333616