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Bibliography of books and articles on medieval England

  • Aberth, John (2001). From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92715-3.
  • Airlie, Stuart (2001). “Strange Eventful Histories: The Middle Ages in the Cinema”. In Linehan, Peter; Nelson, Janet L. (eds.). The Medieval World. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415302340.
  • Alexander, James W. (1970). “The Becket Controversy in Recent Historiography”. The Journal of British Studies. 9 (2): 1–26. .
  • Aston, Margaret; Richmond, Colin (1997). “Introduction”. In Aston, Margaret; Richmond, Colin (eds.). Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages. Stroud, UK: Sutton. ISBN 9780312173883.
  • Aurell, Martin (2003). L’Empire de Plantagenêt, 1154–1224. Paris: Tempus. ISBN 978-2-262-02282-2.(in French)
  • Aurell, Martin (2007). “Henry II and Arthurian Legend”. In Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas (eds.). Henry II: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.
  • Bachrach, Bernard S. (2005). “On Roman Ramparts 300-1300”. In Parker, Geoffrey (ed.). The Cambridge History Of Warfare. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521853590.
  • Bailey, Mark (1996). “Population and Economic Resources”. In Given-Wilson, Chris (ed.). An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-4152-5.
  • Baker, John (1978). English Stained Glass of the Medieval Period. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500271283.
  • Barber, Richard (2007a). “Why Did Edward III Hold the Round Table? The Chivalric Background”. In Munby, Julian; Barber, Richard; Brown, Richard (eds.). Edward III’s Round Table at Windsor. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843833918.
  • Barber, Richard (2007b). “The Order of the Round Table”. In Munby, Julian; Barber, Richard; Brown, Richard (eds.). Edward III’s Round Table at Windsor. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843833918.
  • Barlow, Frank (1986). Thomas Becket. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. ISBN 978-0-297-79189-8.
  • Barlow, Frank (1999). The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042–1216. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-38117-7 
  • Barron, Caroline (2005). London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People 1200–1500. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928441-2.
  • Bevington, David (2002). “Literature and the theatre”. In Loewenstein, David; Mueller, Janel M. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63156-3.
  • Blanchard, Ian (2002). “Lothian and Beyond: the Economy of the “English Empire” of David I”. In Britnell, Richard; Hatcher, John (eds.). Progress and Problems in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Edward Miller. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52273-1.
  • Bradbury, Jim (2009). Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War of 1139–53. Stroud, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-3793-1.
  • Brown, R. Allen (1962). English Castles. London: Batsford. 
  • Burton, Janet E. (1994). Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521377973.
  • Cantor, Leonard (1982). “Introduction: The English Medieval Landscape”. In Cantor, Leonard (ed.). The English Medieval Landscape. London: Croon Helm. ISBN 978-0-7099-0707-7.
  • Carpenter, David (2004). The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066–1284. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014824-4.
  • Chibnall, Marjorie (1993). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19028-8.
  • Cobban, Alan B. (1975). The Medieval Universities: Their Development and Organization. London: Methuen. ISBN 9780416812503.
  • Coppack, Glyn (2003). Medieval Merchant’s House, Southampton. London: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-354-1.
  • Coss, Peter (2002). “From Feudalism to Bastard Feudalism”. In Fryde, Natalie; Monnet, Pierre; Oexle, Oto (eds.). The Presence of Feudalism. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-525-35391-2.
  • Cowie, Jonathan (2007). Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521696197.
  • Creighton, Oliver Hamilton (2005). Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England. London: Equinox. ISBN 978-1-904768-67-8.
  • Creighton, Oliver Hamilton; Robert, Higham (2005). Medieval Town Walls: An Archaeology and Social History of Urban Defence. Stroud, UK: Tempus. ISBN 9780752414453.
  • Crouch, David (2005). The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France : 900–1300. Harlow: Pearson. ISBN 978-0-582-36981-8.
  • Danziger, Danny; Gillingham, John (2004). 1215: The Year of Magna Carta. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 9780340824757.
  • Davidson, Hilda Ellis (1998). The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9780851157160.
  • Davies, R. R. (1990). Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521029773.
  • Davis, Ralph Henry Carless (1977). King Stephen (1st ed.). London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-48727-7.
  • D’haen, Theo (2004). “Stalking Multiculturalism: Historical Sleuths at the end of the Twentieth Century”. In Bak, Hans (ed.). Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Rodopi. ISBN 9789042016118.
  • Doherty, P. C. (2003). Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II. London: Robinson. ISBN 1-84119-843-9.
  • Douglas, David Charles (1962). William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England. Berkeley, US: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520003484.
  • Driver, Martha W.; Ray, Sid (2009). “General Introduction”. In Driver, Martha W.; Ray, Sid (eds.). Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings. Jefferson, US: McFarland. ISBN 9780786434053.
  • Duggan, Charles (1962). “The Becket Dispute and the Criminous Clerks”. Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Research. 35 (91): 1–28.
  • Dyer, Christopher (2000). Everyday Life in Medieval England. London: Hambledon and London. ISBN 9781852852016.
  • Dyer, Christopher (2009). Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300101911.
  • Emery, Anthony (2007). Discovering Medieval Houses. Risborough, UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 9780747806554.
  • Fleming, Robin (2000). Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140148237.
  • Forey, Alan (1992). The Military Orders From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan. ISBN 9780333462355.
  • Geddes, Jane (2001). “Iron”. In Blair, John; Ramsay, Nigel (eds.). English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 978-1-85285-326-6.
  • Getz, Faye Marie (1991). Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilberus Anglicus. Wisconsin, US: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299129309.
  • Gilchrist, Roberta (2006). Norwich Cathedral Close: The Evolution of the English Cathedral Landscape. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843831730.
  • Hackett, Jeremiah (1997). “Roger Bacon: His Career, Life and Works”. In Hackett, Jeremiah (ed.). Roger Bacon and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays. Leiden, the Netherlands: BRILL. ISBN 9789004100152.
  • Halsall, Guy (2003). Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415239400.
  • Happé, Peter (2003). “A Guide to Criticism of Medieval English Theatre”. In Beadle, Richard (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521459167.
  • Hicks, Michael (2012). The Wars of the Roses. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9.
  • Hill, Donald Routledge (1996). A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415152914.
  • Hillaby, Joe (2003). “Jewish Colonisation in the Twelfth Century”. In Skinner, Patricia (ed.). The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary, and Archaeological Perspectives. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-931-7.
  • Hinton, David (2002). Archaeology, Economy and Society: England from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-03984-7.
  • Hodgett, Gerald (2006). A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-37707-2.
  • Hollister, C. Warren (2003). Henry I (Yale ed.). New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09829-7.
  • Hooper, Nicholas (1992a). “The Housecarls in England in the Eleventh Century”. In Strickland, Matthew (ed.). Anglo-Norman Warfare. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851153275.
  • Hooper, Nicholas (1992b). “Some Observations on the Navy in Late Anglo-Saxon England”. In Strickland, Matthew (ed.). Anglo-Norman Warfare. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851153275.
  • Hughes, Malcolm K.; Diaz, Henry F. (1997). “Was There a ‘Medieval Warm Period’, and if so, Where and When?”. In Hughes, Malcolm K.; Diaz, Henry F. (eds.). The Medieval Warm Period. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9780792328421.
  • Hulme, Richard (2007-8). “Twelfth Century Great Towers – The Case for the Defence” (PDF). The Castle Studies Group Journal (21): 209–229. 
  • Humphrey, Chris (2001). “Time and Urban Culture in Late Medieval England”. In Humphrey, Chris; Ormrod, W. M. (eds.). Time in the Medieval World. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781903153086.
  • Huscroft, Richard (2005). Ruling England, 1042–1217. Harlow, UK: Pearson. ISBN 0-582-84882-2.
  • Johns, Susan M. (2003). Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063051.
  • Johnson, Matthew (2000). “Self-made men and the staging of agency”. In Dobres, Marcia-Anne; Robb, John E. (eds.). Agency in Archaeology. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-20760-7.
  • Jones, Dan (2010). Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. London: Harper Press. ISBN 9780007213931.
  • Jordan, William Chester (1997). The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. Princeton, US: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05891-7.
  • Kessler, Herbert L. (2004). Seeing Medieval Art. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781551115351.
  • King, Edmund (2007). “The Accession of Henry II”. In Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas (eds.). Henry II: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.
  • King, Edmund (2010). King Stephen. New Haven, US: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11223-8.
  • Kowalski, Maryanne (2007). “Warfare, Shipping, and Crown Patronage: The Economic Impact of the Hundred Years War on the English Port Towns”. In Armstrong, Lawrin; Elbl, Ivana; Elbl, Martin (eds.). Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H. A. Munro. Leiden, the Netherlands: BRILL. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.
  • Lavelle, Ryan (2010). Alfred’s Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843835691.
  • Liddiard, Robert (2005). Castles in Context: Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500. Macclesfield, UK: Windgather Press. ISBN 0-9545575-2-2.
  • Marks, Richard (1993). Stained Glass in England During the Middle Ages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415033459.
  • Marks, Richard (2001). “Window Glass”. In Blair, John; Ramsay, Nigel (eds.). English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 978-1-85285-326-6.
  • Mate, Mavis E. (2001). Women in Medieval English Society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521587334.
  • McClendon, Charles B. (2005). The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D 600-900. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300106886.
  • Morillo, Stephen (1994). Warfare Under the Anglo-Norman Kings 1066-1135. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-689-7.
  • Mortimer, Ian (2004). The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330. London: Pimlico Press. ISBN 9780712697156.
  • Mortimer, Ian (2008). The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation. London: Vintage. ISBN 9780099527091.
  • Myers, A. R. (1978). English Society in the Late Middle Ages, 1066–1307 (8th ed.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-020234X.
  • Nilson, Ben (2001). Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9780851158082.
  • Normore, Calvin G. (1999). “Some Aspects of Ockham’s Logic”. In Spade, Paul Vincent (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521587907.
  • Ortenberg, Veronica (2006). In Search of The Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages. London: Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 9781852853839.
  • Page, Christopher (1997). “The English a capella Heresy”. In Knighton, Fallows, Tess; Fallows, David (eds.). Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles, US: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520210813.
  • Pantin, W. A. (1963). “Medieval English Town-House Plans”. Medieval Archaeology. 6–7: 202–239.
  • Pounds, Norman John Greville (1994). The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A Social and Political History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45828-3.
  • Pounds, Norman John Greville (2005). The Medieval City. Westport, US: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-32498-7.
  • Prestwich, J. O. (1992a). “The Military Household of the Norman Kings”. In Strickland, Matthew (ed.). Anglo-Norman Warfare. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851153275.
  • Prestwich, J. O. (1992b). “War and Finance in the Anglo-Norman State”. In Strickland, Matthew (ed.). Anglo-Norman Warfare. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0851153275.
  • Prestwich, Michael (1988). Edward I. Berkeley and Los Angeles, US: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520062665.
  • Prestwich, Michael (2003). The Three Edwards: War and State in England, 1272-1377 (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415303095.
  • Prior, Stuart (2006). A Few Well-Positioned Castles: The Norman Art of War. Stroud, UK: Tempus. ISBN 9780752436517.
  • Raban, Sandra (2000). England Under Edward I and Edward II, 1259–1327. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22320-7.
  • Rahtz, Philip; Watts, Lorna (2005). “Three Ages of Conversion at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire”. In Carver, Martin (ed.). The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 99781843831259.
  • Ramsay, Nigel (2001). “Introduction”. In Blair, John; Ramsay, Nigel (eds.). English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 978-1-85285-326-6.
  • Redknap, Mark (2002). Re-Creations: Visualising Our Past. Cardiff, UK: National Museums and Galleries of Wales and Cadw. ISBN 9780720005196.
  • Reid, Stuart (2006). Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans, 1450–1650. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-962-2.
  • Rose, Susan (2002). Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415239769.
  • Rotherham, Ian D. (2007). “The Historical Ecology of Medieval Parks and the Implications for Conservation”. In Liddiard, Robert (ed.). The Medieval Park: New Perspectives. Macclesfield, UK: Windgather Press. ISBN 9781905119165.
  • Rubin, Miri (2006). The Hollow Crown: The Penguin History of Britain 1272-1485. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014825-1.
  • Sawyer, P. H. (1982). Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe, AD 700-1100. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415045902.
  • Skinner, Patricia (2003). “Introduction: Jews in Medieval Britain and Europe”. In Skinner, Patricia (ed.). The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary, and Archaeological Perspectives. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-931-7.
  • Spade, Paul Vincent (1999). “Ockham’s Nominalist Metaphysics: Some Main Themes”. In Spade, Paul Vincent (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521587907.
  • Sreedharan, E. (2004). A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000. Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman. ISBN 9788125026570.
  • Steane, John (1999). The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-19788-5.
  • Stenton, Doris Mary (1976). English Society in the Early Middle Ages, 1066–1307. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-020252-8.
  • Stringer, Keith J. (1993). The Reign of Stephen: Kingship, Warfare and Government in Twelfth-Century England. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01415-1.
  • Timmons, Daniel (2000). “Introduction”. In Clark, George; Timmons, Daniel (eds.). J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth. Westport, US: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313308451.
  • Thomas, Hugh M. (2003). The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity, 1066-c.1220. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199251230.
  • Turner, Hilary L. (1971). Town Defences in England and Wales. London: John Baker.
  • Turner, Ralph V. (2009). King John: England’s Evil King?. Stroud, UK: History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-4850-3.
  • Tyerman, Christopher (1996). England and the Crusades, 1095-1588. Chicago, US: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226820132.
  • Vincent, Nicholas (2007). “Introduction: Henry II and the Historians”. In Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas (eds.). Henry II: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.
  • Warren, W. Lewis (1991). King John. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-45520-3.
  • Warren, W. L. (2000). Henry II (Yale ed.). New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08474-0.
  • Webb, Diana (2000). Pilgrimage in Medieval England. London: Hambledon. ISBN 9781852852504.
  • Webster, Leslie (2003). “Encrypted Visions: Style and Sense in the Anglo-Saxon Minor Arts, AD 400-900”. In Karkov,, Catherine E.; Hardin Brown, George (eds.). Anglo-Saxon Styles. New York, US: State University of New York. ISBN 9780791458693.
  • White, Graeme J. (2000). Restoration and Reform, 1153–1165: Recovery From Civil War in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55459-6.
  • Whitelock, Dorothy (1972). The Beginnings of English Society (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140202455.
  • Williams, Gareth (2001). “Military Institutions and Royal Power”. In Brown,, Michelle P.; Farr, Carol Ann (eds.). Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom In Europe. London: Continuum. ISBN 9780826477651.
  • Yorke, Barbara (1995). Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. London: Leicester University Press. ISBN 9780718518561.