Middle Ages/Middle History

Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409

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Oscar Browning


The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …

Selections of the History of the Franks

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Gregory of Tours and Gregory Of Tours


The Historia Francorum is the most important contemporary source for the Merovingian age. It is written in ten books, of which one to four r…

Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume cover…

Philip Augustus

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William Holden Hutton


Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II wa…

The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

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Martin A. S. Hume


King Henry VIII is so often depicted as a far-seeing statesman, pressing forward through a lifetime with his eyes firmly fixed upon the goal…

England In The Middle Ages

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Elizabeth O'Neill


A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century.The p…

The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530

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Oscar Browning


Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary comp…

Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of …

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Lionel Allshorn


Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

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John Bagnell Bury


John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death

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Margaret O. Oliphant


The story of Jeanne d'Arc, or Joan of Arc , has passed into folklore and has been retold by many. The young teenager was sent by an as-yet u…

Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours. Tome 03. Formation des grands état…

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Alfred Nicolas Rambaud


Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le troisième volume de la série raconte la fin du Moye…

The World’s Story Volume IX: England

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Eva March Tappan


This is the ninth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

The Normans in Europe

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Arthur Henry Johnson


This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …

The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII

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Charles Edward Moberly


Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns of Henry VII and VIII were autocratic and centralized to an unprecedented degree. T…

The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in…

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Johan Huizinga


The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages), subtitled A study of the form…

Henry the Seventh

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James Gairdner


Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, less known than his son, Henry VIII, or granddaughter Elizabeth I, is often overlooked. This K…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

An Outline History of Japan

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Herbert Henry Gowen


A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

History of England In Words of One Syllable

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Helen W. Pierson


A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginnin…

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