The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise.

"Geary's careful and wise selection of texts in his reader provides the best balance between range and depth necessary for a successful source book." - Nicholas Everett, University of Toronto

Heywood's 1921 history of Pisa is a valuable addition to the study of the historiography of medieval Italy.

Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad--armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but ...

The 1780 edition of one of the oldest English-language cookbooks, presenting a range of everyday and ceremonial dishes.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Like its predecessors, this fourth edition fulfills the promise expressed in the author's preface: to introduce us and our students to documents representing a great variety of genres, subjects, and places throughout medieval Europe and to ...

"Provides an excellent selection of complete texts or substantial extracts from key primary sources, helpfully grouped thematically and illustrating many current issues in modern historical study.