A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during
the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western …

How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions
and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the …

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by
myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and …

It is difficult to ascertain with any precision the correlation between the physical movements
of the Rus into the Caliphate's sphere of interest and their appearance in the writings of its …

As I write this, I am entering the thirty-second day of quarantine in a small apartment in
Brooklyn. New York City is for the moment the undisputed center of the global coronavirus …

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred" the Unready," one of medieval England's most
maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred" the …

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this
complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as …

This article, using fieldwork from a Chinese county, seeks to explain why Protestantism has
experienced explosive growth in post-Mao China, but not before. It identifies six institutional …

The First Crusade (1095–9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation
between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a …

Prominent theories of state formation hold that states formed because of warfare and
competition on the one hand, or the diffusion of organizational templates and practices …