George Bernard

Reaching for the Heavens

Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England

By Julian Flannery

Thomas Shippey

No Arthur

Charlemagne

By Johannes Fried (Translated by Peter Lewis)

John Man

Obscure Empires Brought to Light

The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols

By Christoph Baumer (Translated by Martina Dervis & Dafydd Roberts)

Jonathan Sumption

Man of Few Words

Henry V: The Conscience of a King

By Malcolm Vale

Hilary Mantel

Monks Before Women

Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages

By Georges Duby

Ann Geneva

Nancy Reagan was Following an Ancient Tradition

Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages

By Hilary M Carey

Louise Wilkinson

Menus of the Middle Ages

The Culture of Food in England 1200–1500

By C M Woolgar

John Adamson

Divided We Stand

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History

By Peter H Wilson

Peter Sarris

Beware of Latins Chasing Debts

The Lost World of Byzantium

By Jonathan Harris

R I Moore

Doubting Thomas

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

By E M Rose

Jonathan Sumption

What a Rotter

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant

By Stephen Church

Christopher Tyerman

Flower of Chivalry

The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones

By Thomas Asbridge

Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination

Pungent Unguents

Paul Freedman

By Yale University Press 275pp £20

Nicholas Vincent

Devil’s Advocates

The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

By R I Moore