Selected Books from Torreyson Library in Medieval History to accompany

Medieval Civilization
History 4361
Department of History
University of Central Arkansas


Abulafia, David. Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
Abulafia, David. Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca
Akehurst, F.R.P. The Etablissements de Saint Louis
Amelang, James, ed., A Journal of the Plague Year
Amundson, Darrell. Medicine, Society and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love
Archambault, Paul J., A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert de Nogent
Arnold, Benjamin, Count and Bishop in Medieval Germany
Ashtor, Eliyahu, The Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages
Backman, Clifford. Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily: Politics, Religion and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III
Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrmann. Letters of Hildegard of Bingen
Baldwin, J.W., The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages
Baldwin, John W., The Government of Philip Augustus
Barber, Malcolm, New Knighthood: A history of the Order of the Temple
Barber, Malcolm. Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick
Barker, John W., Justinian and the Later Roman Empire
Barlow, Frank, Thomas Becket
Barraclough, Geoffrey, The Crucible of Europe
Bartlett, Robert, Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
Bartlett, Robert and Angus MacKay, Medieval Frontier Societies
Barton, Simon. Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile
Bayard, Tania, Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century
Becker, Marvin, Civility and Society in Western Europe, 1300-1600
Bell, Rudolph, Holy Anorexia
Bennett, Judith, Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages
Bensch, Stephen P., Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291
Bisson, Thomas, Medieval France and Her Pyrenean Neighbors
Bisson, Thomas, A Short History of Catalonia
Bisson, Thomas. Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status and Profess in 12th Century Europe
Blair, John and N. Ramsay, English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products
Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society (vol. 2)
Blumenfeld Kosinski, Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe
Bonnassie, Pierre, From Slavery to Feudalism
Bony, Jean, French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Boswell, John, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children
Burton, Janet, Monastic and religious orders in Britain, 1000-1300
Bouchard, Constance, Holy Entrepreneurs: Cistercians, Knights and Economic Exchange in 12th- century Burgundy
Bouchard, Constance, Sword, Miter and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198
Brentano, Robert, Two Churches: England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century
Brett, Edward, Humbert of Romans: His Life and Views of 13th-Century Society
Brodman, James W. Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia
Brodman, James W., Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain
Brundage, James A., Crusade, Holy War and Canon Law
Brundage, James A., Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe
Brunner, Otto, Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria
Bullough, V. and J. Brundage, Handbook of Medieval Sexuality
Burns, S.J., Robert I., Islam under the Crusaders
Burns, S.J., Robert I., Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile
Burr, David, Olivi and Franciscan Poverty
Burr, David. The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Jesus as Mother
Cadden, Joan, The Meaning of Sex Differences in the Middle Ages
Catherine of Siena, The Letters of Catherine of Siena
Chapelot, Jean, The Village and House in the Middle Ages
Cantor, Norman, Inventing the Middle Ages: the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the Twentieth Century
Chazan, Robert, Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath
Chickering, Howard and Thomas Seiler, eds., The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches
Clark, Howard (ed.), Medieval Dublin
Cohn, Samuel, Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800
Constable, Giles. Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought
Contamine, Philippe, War in the Middle Ages
Conrad, Lawrence et al., Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC-1800AD
Cowdrey, Hebert, Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085
D'Avray, D.L., The Preaching of the Friars
Dameron, George. Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320
Damico, Helen, ed. Medieval Scholarship: biographical studies on the formation of a discipline
Defoe, Daniel, Journal of the Plague Year
Dillard, Heath, Daughters of the Reconquest
Dohar, William J., The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership
Douglas, David C., The Norman Achievement
Doubleday, Simon. The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain
Duffy, Eamon, Stripping the Altars: Traditional Religion in England
Dunn, Ross, ed., The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller
Dyer, Christopher, Standards of Living in the later Middle Ages
Edbury, Peter W. The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade
Edwards, Robert and Vickie Ziegler, eds. Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society
Epstein, Stephen, Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa
Edbury, Peter W., The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374
Erler, Mary and M. Kowaleski, Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Fanning, Steven, A Bishop and his World before the Gregorian Reform
Farmer, Sharon. Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Fernandez-Armesto, F., Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492
Fletcher, Richard, the Quest for El Cid
Forey, Alan, The Military Orders: From the 12th to the early 14th Centuries
Forster, Joan, ed., The Chronicle of James I, King of Aragon
Fortini, Arnaldo, Francis of Assisi
France, John. Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade
France, John. Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300
Fugedi, Erik, Castle and Society in Medieval Hungary, 1000-1437
García-Ballester, Luis. Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
Gavitt, Philip, Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence
Geremek, Bronislaw, The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris
Geremek, Bronislaw, Poverty: A History
Gervers, Michael, the Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England
Gervers, Michael, ed., The Second Crusade and the Cistercians
Getz, Faye. Medicine in the English Middle Ages
Gies, Frances, Life in a Medieval Village
Gimpel, Jean, The Medieval Machine
Glick, Thomas, From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castile
Goebel, Julius, Felony and Misdemeanor
Goodlick, Michael, ed. Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the margins of medieval society
Górecki, Piotr, Economy, Society, and Lordship in Medieval Poland, 1100-1250
Grmek, Mirko D. Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Gurevich, Aaron, Medieval Popular Culture
Gurevich, Aaron, Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages
Haldon, John F., The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades
Hampe, Karl, Germany under the Salian and Hohenstaufen Emperors
Harvey, L.P., Islamic Spain, 1250-1500
Haskins, Charles Homer, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
Henderson, John. Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence
Herlihy, David, Medieval Households
Herlihy, David, Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe
Hieatt, Constance et al. Pleyn delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Hildegard of Bingen. Letters of Hildegard of Bingen, tr. Joseph Baird
Hilton, R.H., English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study
Hohenberg, Paul, The Making of Urban Europe, 1100-1950
Homans, George, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Housley, Norman, The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades
Housley, Norman, The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: From Lyons to Alcazar
Hugh of Poitiers, The Vézelay Chronicle, trans. & ed. J. Scott and J.O.. Ward
Huizinga, Joann, The Waning of the Middle Ages
Jacquant, Danielle, Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Johnson, Penelope, Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France
Johnston, Mark. The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull
Jones, Michael, the Creation of Brittany: A Late medieval State
Jordan, William C., The French Monarchy and the Jews
Kaeuper, Richard W., War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages
Kantorowicz, Ernst, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political
Karras, Ruth, Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia
Kazhdan, Alexander, Change in Byzantine Culture in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Kedar, Benjamin, Crusade and Mission
Kelly, Amy, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Kieckhefer, Richard, Magic in the Middle Ages
Kieckhefer, Richard, Unquiet Souls: 14th Century Saints and Their Religions
Kittell, Ellen, From AD HOC to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, et al., eds., A History of Women in the West, vol. 2, Silences of the Middle Ages
Kohl, Benjamin G. Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405
Kosztolnyik, Z.J., Five 11th Century Hungarian Kings
Labarge, Margaret, St. Louis
Ladurie, Emmanual LeRoy, Montaillou
Le Goff, Jacques, The Birth of Purgatory
Le Goff, Jacques, Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
Le Goff, Jacques, ed., Medieval Callings
Le Goff, Jacques, Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
Leff, Gordon, Paris and Oxford Universities in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Lesnick, Daniel, Preaching in Medieval Florence
Lewis, A.D.E. and D.J. Ibbetson, The Roman Law Tradition
Lewis, Archibald, European Naval and Maritime History
Lewis, Archibald, Nomads and Crusades
Lewis, Archibald, Southern French and Catalan Society
Lewis, Suzane, The Art of Matthew of Paris in the Chronica Majora
Leyser, Henrietta, Social History of Women in England
Leyser, K.J., Medieval Germany and its Neighbors
Linehan, Peter. Ladies of Zamora
Little, Lester, Liberty, Charity and Fraternity: Lay Religious Confraternities at Bergamo in the Age of the Commune
Lomax, Derek W., The Reconquest of Spain
Long, Pamela, ed., Science and Technology in Medieval Society
Lopez, Robert S., The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages
Lourie, Elena, Crusade and Colonisation
Lull, Ramon, Book of the Order of Chivalry
Maddicott, J. Robert, Simon de Montfort
Maier, Christoph. Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the 13th Century
Manz, Beatrice, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Marongiu Antonio, Medieval Parliaments
McVaugh, Michael, Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon
Melczer, William, The Pilgrims Guide to Santiago de Compostela
Menagier de Paris, Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century
Menendez-Pidal, Ramon, The Cid and His Spain
Minois, Georges. History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Miri, Rubin, Corpus Christi: Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture
Mirrer, Louise. Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile
Mollat, Michel, The Poor in the Middle Ages
Monter, William, Frontiers of Heresy
Moore, R.I., The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Mullett, Michael, Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Mundy, John Hine, The Repression of Catharism in Toulouse
Mundy, John Hine, Society and Government at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars
Munz, Peter, Frederick Barbarossa
Murray, Alan V. Crusade and Conversionon the Baltic Frontier, 1150-1500
Murray, Stephen, Building Troyes Cathedral
Neugaard, Edward, A Motif-Index of Medieval Catalan Folktales
Newman, Martha, Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform, 1098-1180
Nicholas, David, The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent
Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
Noffke, Suzanne, The Letters of Catherine of Siena
O'Callaghan, Joseph, The Cortes of Castile-Leon, 1188-1350
O'Callaghan, Joseph, The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile
O'Callaghan, Joseph. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
Orme, Nicholas and Margaret Webster. The English Hospital, 1070-1570
Orme, Nicholas. Medieval Children
Otis, Leah, Prostitution in Medieval Society
Ousterhout, Robert, The Blessings of Pilgrimage
Owen, Dorothy, Medieval Canon Law
Painter, Sidney, William Marshall
Parsons, John, The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290
Parsons, J.C. and Bonnie Wheeler. Medieval Mothering
Patterson, Linda, The World of the Troubadours
Payer, Pierre, Sex and the Penitentials
Pedro IV of Aragon, The Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña
Pelikan, Jaroslav, Jesus Through the Centuries
Pennington, Kenneth, Pope and Bishops
Petit-Dutailles, Charles, The Feudal Monarchy in France and England
Pirenne, Henri, Medieval Cities
Powell, James M., Anatomy of a Crusade
Powell, James (ed.), Muslims Under Latin Rule
Powers, James F. The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Frontier
Powers, James F., A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias of the Central Middle Ages
Prestwich, Michael. Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages
Pullan, Brian, Poverty and Charity: Europe, Italy and Venice, 1400-1700
Radding, Charles, the Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence
Raitt, Jill, Christian Spirituality II: High Middle Ages and Reformation
Ranft, Patricia, A History of Women's Religious Societies
Reilly, Bernard F. The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1031-1157
Reilly, Bernard F., The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under King Alfonso V 1065-1105
Reilly, Bernard F., The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under Queen Urraca
Reilly, Bernard F., The Medieval Spains
Reyerson, K.L., Business, Banking, and Finance in Medieval Montpellier
Reyerson, Katherine. Society, Law and Trade in Medieval Montpellier
Richards, Jeffery, Consul of God
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Crusades: A Short History
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, A History of the Crusades
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus
Rogers, R., Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century
Rosenthal, Joel T. (ed.), Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History
Rossiaud, Jacques, Medieval Prostitution
Rowell, S.C., Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-central Europe, 1295-1345
Ruiz, Teofilo F., Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile
Runciman, Sir Steven, A History of the Crusades, vol. 1
Santich, Barbara. Original Mediterranean Cuisine
Russell, Josiah C., The Control of Late Ancient and Medieval Population
Schein, Sylvia, Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314
Scriber, Carolyn, Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux: New Ideas versus Old
Schultz, James A. Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages
The Second Crusade and the Cistercians
Setton, Kenneth, A History of the Crusades, 6 vols.
Shahar, Shulamith, Childhood in the Middle Ages
Sheehan Michael, ed., Aging and the Aged in Medieval Europe
Sheehan, Michael. Marriage, Family and the Law in Medieval Europe
Sheehan, Michael and J. Murray, Domestic Society in Medieval Europe
Shein, Sylvia, Fideles crucis: the Papacy, the West and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314
Sheridan, Sue. Wife and Widow in Medieval England
Smail, R.C. Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193, 2nd ed.
Southern, R.W., Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe
Spufford, Peter, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe
Stalls, Clay, Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion into Islam's Ebro Frontier
Strayer, Joseph, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
Stone, Daniel Z. The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795
Stuard, Susam Mosher, State of Deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries
Stuard, Susan Mosher, Women in Medieval Society
Suger of St. Denis, Abbot. The Deeds of Louis the Fat
Sumption, Jonathon, The Albigensian Crusade
Sweeney, Del, ed. Agriculture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice and Representation
Taylor, Larissa, Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Tedeschi, John, the Prosecution of Heresy
Terpstra, Nicolas, Politics of Ritual Kinship
Tolan, J.V.. Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam
Tyerman, Christopher, England and the Crusades, 1095-1588
Tyerman, Christopher. Invention of the Crusades
Uitz, Erika, The Legend of Good Women: Medieval Women in Towns and Cities
Unger, Richard, The Ship in the Medieval Economy
Upton-Ward, J.M., trans., The Rule of the Templars
Vale, Malcolm, The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340
Vauchez, Andre, Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices
Vaughn, Sally, Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan
Vicaire, M.H., St. Dominic and His Times
Viera, David, Medieval Catalan Literature
von Simpson, Otto, The Gothic Cathedral
Waley, Daniel, Siena and the Sienese in the 13th Century
Warren, C.L., Henry II
White, Jr., Lynn, Medieval Technology and Social Change
White, Stephen D., Custom, Kinship and Gifts to the Saints
Wood, Charles T., Joan of Arc and Richard III: Sex, Saints and Government
Zacour, Norman, The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East vol 5. of A History of the Crusades, ed. Kenneth Setton
 

General Histories
 

Barber, Malcolm, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320
Duby, Georges, France in the Middle Ages, 987-1460
Medieval France: an Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler
New Cambridge Medieval History