This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England. Written by expert scholars and drawing on the latest research, it offers an authoritative survey of the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth. The middle ages were a time of pro[...]

Popular views of medieval chivalry knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry s place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath[...]