Books by Robert Bartlett
“It was hugely influential because it foregrounded the idea that there is nothing inevitable about Europe as we find it today, or about how it developed in the Middle Ages. Europe was constructed rather than simply coming into being. In some ways, that feels obvious now, because a lot of work has built on Bartlett’s ideas or challenged them in different ways. But at the time it was published, the notion that Europe was itself a product of colonial expansion, rather than just an exporter of colonial mentalities, was quite radical.” Read more...
The best books on Medieval Europe
Thomas Williams, Historian
Interviews where books by Robert Bartlett were recommended
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
by Robert Bartlett -
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Vikings: Life and Legend
ed. Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz, Matthias Wemhoff -
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The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in 19th-Century Britain
by Andrew Wawn -
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Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146
by Christian Raffensperger -
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The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades
by Aleksander Pluskowski
The best books on Medieval Europe, recommended by Thomas Williams
The best books on Medieval Europe, recommended by Thomas Williams
Europe experienced huge cultural, social and religious change throughout the Middle Ages. You may know it as an age of kings and queens, castles, crusades and chivalric knighthoods, but historians of the period often neglect the seismic events of the far north and east, explains Thomas Williams. Here, he recommends five books that may upend your understanding of medieval Europe.
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God’s War
by Christopher Tyerman -
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
by Robert Bartlett -
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The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
by Carole Hillenbrand -
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Chronicles of the Crusades
by Geoffroy de Villehardouin and Jean de Joinville, edited by Caroline Smith -
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Seven Myths of the Crusades
edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt
The best books on The Crusades, recommended by Guy Perry
The best books on The Crusades, recommended by Guy Perry
Once seen as a great romantic adventure, the Crusades tend to be viewed now as an early venture in Western imperialism. But, as the Oxford historian Guy Perry explains, there is nothing so simple about them. He chooses five books that get to the complex truth of the Crusades as historical phenomena.
