Publishers' notices
Books published in 2005

Dives and Pauper Vol II; ed. Priscilla Heath Barnum.

Paul Doherty
The Great Crown Jewels Robbery of 1303.

Theresa Earenfight
Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.

Steve Ellis, ed. 
Chaucer: An Oxford Guide.

Janet Fairweather, trans.
Liber Eliensis: A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century.

Denise K. Filios
Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric.

Mike Fletcher and Gary Lock
Digging Numbers: Elementary statistics for archaeologists, 2nd edition.

Nichola Fletcher
Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting.

Jaroslav Folda
Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre.

Ian Forrest
The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England.

Angelo Forte, Richard Oram, Frederik Pedersen
Viking Empires.

Richard M. Frank
Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Volume I.

Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Castles: Heritage, History, Heraldry.

Gerald of Wales; trans. & ed. H. E. Butler
The Autobiography of Gerald of Wales.

Chris Given-Wilson, ed.
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504: Rotuli Parliamentorum. (17 vols.)

K. M. Grant
Green Jasper.

Simon Hall and John Haywood, eds. 
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World.

Nick Harding
Secret Societies.

Stephanie Hayes-Healy, ed. 
Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (2 volume set).

Robert Higham & Oliver Creighton
Medieval Town Walls: An Archaeology and Social History of Urban Defence.

Paul Hill
Road To Hastings: The Politics of Power in Anglo-Saxon England.

Richard Hodges, William Bowden and Kosta Lako, eds. 
Byzantine Butrint: Excavations and Surveys 1994-99.

Mary Hollingsworth
The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince.

Roger Hudson
Hudson's English History: A Compendium.

Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary J. Nederman, eds. 
Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Derek Hurst
Sheep in the Cotswolds: The Medieval Wool Trade.

Edward James
The Origins of France, 2nd Edition.

David Johnson and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Readings in Medieval Texts.

Terry Jones
Medieval Lives.

Anthony Kenny
Medieval Philosophy.

Muhammad Ali Khalidi, ed. 
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings.

David King
The Medieval Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.

Lorraine Kochanske Stock
The Medieval Wild Man.

Margaret Wade Labarge
Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless.

George Lambrick and Tim Allen
Gravelly Guy: Excavations at Stanton Harcourt.

Stuart D. Lee and Elizabeth Solopova
Keys of Middle-Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Tim William Machan
English in the Middle Ages.

Sean Martin
Andrei Tarkovsky.

Sean Martin
The Cathars.

Emma Mason
William II: Rufus, The Red King.

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
The Occult in Medieval Europe 500-1500.

Mark Miller
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales.

Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson, eds. 
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages.

Giles Morgan
The Holy Grail.

Colin Morris
The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600.

Lucien Musset
The Bayeux Tapestry.

Anthony Musson, ed. 
Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Hardback Set.

New Medieval Literatures, Volume VII
Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton, eds.

Rosalind Niblett and Isobel Thompson
Alban's Buried Towns: An Assessment of St Albans' Archaeology up to AD 1600.

David Nicolle
Acre 1291: Bloody sunset of the Crusader states.

David Nicolle
Carolingian Cavalryman AD 768–987.

David Nicolle
Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 1192–1302.

David Nicolle
The Third Crusade 1191: Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the struggle for Jerusalem.

A. J. S. Nusbacher
Bannockburn 1314.

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard, eds. 
Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge.

Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Cædmon's Hymn: A Multi-media Study, Edition and Archive.

James J. O’Donnell
Augustine, Sinner and Saint: A New Biography.

Lynette Olson
The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe.

Philip Page, Kate Atherton and Alan Hardy
Barentin's Manor: Excavations of the moated manor at Hardings Field, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1976-9.

Mike Paine
The Crusades.

Demetra Papaconstantinou
Deconstructing Context: A Critical Approach to Archaeological Practice.

Matthew Parris
A Castle in Spain.

Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, Part III; Richard Beadle and Colin Richmond, eds.

Petrarch; Thomas P. Roche, ed. 
Petrarch in English.

Petrarch
The Portable Petrarch.

Marco Polo
Penguin Great Ideas: Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan.

Dave Postles
The North Through its Names: A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England.

Tison Pugh
Queering Medieval Genres.

Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl, eds.
Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches.

Andrew C. Rouse
The Remunerated Vernacular Singer, From Medieval England to the Post-War Revival.

Miri Rubin
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages.

Deborah Ruscillo, ed. 
Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones.

John Sadler
Clan Donald's Greatest Defeat: The Battle of Harlaw 1411.

Hans Sauer, ed.
Angelsächsisches Erbe in München / Anglo-Saxon Heritage in Munich; Angelsächsische Handschriften, Schreiber und Autoren aus den Beständen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München / Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, scribes and authors from the collections of the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Frances Stonor Saunders
Hawkwood.

David Saxby
Merton Priory.

Len Scales and Oliver Zimmer, eds. 
Power and the Nation in European History.

John Schofield and Richard Lea
Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, City of London: An Archaeological Reconstruction and History.

The Seven Sages of Rome, ed. Jill Whitelock.

Alice Sheppard
Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Einarr Skúlason; ed. Martin Chase
Einarr Skúlason’s Geisli: A Critical Edition.

Elisabeth Solopova and Karen Wikander
Finding and Using Electronic Texts.

David Stone
Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture.

Snorri Sturluson; trans. Jesse Byock
The Prose Edda.

Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, Anne Bollmann, eds.
The Mediation of Symbol in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times /
Medien der Symbolik in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit.

Harriet Swain, ed. 
The Big Questions In History.

Jo Swinnerton
The History of Britain Companion.

Stephen Turnbull
Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710–1062.

Stephen Turnbull
Samurai Commanders (1): 940–1576.

Stephen Turnbull
Warriors of Medieval Japan.

Ralph V. Turner
King John: England's Evil King? 

Vita Edwardi Secundi, Revised Edition.
Edited by Wendy R. Childs.

Siegfried Wenzel
Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif.

Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys.

Stephen D. White
Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe.

Chris Wickham
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800.

Hywel Williams
Cassell's Chronology of World History.

Robin W. Winks and Teofilo F. Ruiz
Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500.

Jane Young and Alan Vince, with Victoria Naylor
A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Pottery from Lincoln.

John K. Young
Sacred Sites of the Knights Templar: The Ancient Secrets Hidden in Stonehenge, Rennes-le-Chateau, and Santiago de Compostela.

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