In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

Your guide to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period. Medieval Britain as you have never seen it before, a vibrant society teeming with individuality, intrigue and innovation.

This title is a re-creation of one of the bloodiest and most significant episodes of early medieval history: the First Crusade, and the taking of Jerusalem in 1095-99.

The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages. This survey traces the growth of the largest medieval universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, along with the universities of Cambridge, Padua, Naples, Montpellier, Toulouse, Orleans, Angers, Prague, Vienna and Glasgow.

Who owns the tabula picta, the painted tablet? The owner of the tablet? Or to the person who painted it? This meticulous analysis of how medieval jurists responded to these questions is a major a contribution to the history of the proprietary rights to artistic works and to the history of ideas.

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in an epic contest fought on land, sea and underground.

The Secret History Revealed. An explosive new history of the medieval world's most powerful military order, the Templars - and the momentous discovery that finally allows the full story to be told.

Explores the origins and development of the crusades in their historical context. The chapters of this work cover: the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem; the process of Frankish settlement; the failure of the Second Crusade; the rise of Saladin; Richard the Lionheart and the Final Crusade.

In the year 1000 the world was one of people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. Narrated through the progression of the seasons, this book presents a recreation of English life at the end of the first millennium AD.

In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

Takes readers on a thrill-ride through the 12th Century, charting Adelard's odyssey of intellectual and scientific discovery from West to East, from Tours to Antioch to the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

The Germanic Invasions of the fifth century brought about the collapse of the Roman Empire. 'The Barbarian Invasions' will change the way we think about those Dark Ages, looking at the Barbarians themselves rather than just their impact on the Roman empire.

Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.