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Books by Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams is a historian and archaeologist and the author of Viking Britain, Viking London and Lost Realms. He was project curator of the British Museum’s major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend (2014), and later curated the museum’s early medieval coin collection. He holds a PhD from UCL and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Royal Historical Society. His new book God’s Hammer: a History of the Viking Crusades is out now.
Interviews with Thomas Williams
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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.
