226pp.
Robson Books, 1985, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Fine. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0860513386

Inventory #19507

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 15.01 approx. - € 11.48 approx.)

Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives, Matthew Johnson's book takes a look at Medieval English castles. It creates a new and exciting focus on how castles were shaped by their inhabitants and vice versa. 209pp.
Routledge, 2002, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0415261007

Inventory #20852

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 23.70 approx. - € 18.12 approx.)

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet almost nothing is known about the thoughts and feelings of the people who lived through this bloody conflict, whether king or noble, landowner or peasant. Almost nothing, but not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other. Extraordinarily, these letters have survived the centuries; they form the earliest great collection of private correspondence in the English language. More than five hundred years on, the Pastons' voices still have the immediacy of an overheard conversation. Blood and Roses traces the remarkable story of the Paston family across three generations. The world of the fifteenth-century aristocracy was a world of cut-throat snobbery and vicious power struggles, and the Pastons were newcomers to the game: an ambitious nouveau riche family striving to establish themselves among the landed gentry. They took part in the Wars of the Roses in supporting roles, but they were extraordinary characters in their own right: William Paston, the self-made man who founded the family's fortunes; his son John Paston, who embarked on his own battle to inherit the estates of the rich old soldier Sir John Falstaff, the model of Shakespeare's Falstaff; John's wife Margaret, who held the family together for forty years, raised seven children and defended the family's property from armed assault along the way; and their sons John II - a courtier with a passion for books and an eye for female company - and John III, the sensible, reliable brother, whose touching correspondence with his sweetheart includes the earliest surviving valentine in England. 347pp.
Faber & Faber, 2004, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0571216706

Inventory #20873

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 15.01 approx. - € 11.48 approx.)

In the late Middle Ages, the economic and cultural links between England and the coastal regions of northern Europe were so close as to render the area a region. This collection contributes to our understanding of political and cultural relations across the North Sea as a whole. Cross-disciplinary reading for students of medieval studies. 186pp.
Sutton Publishing, 1998, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Paperback Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0750918349

Inventory #20870

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

Victoria & Albert Museum Small Picture Book no.36.Top right corner front cover slightly rubbed.
HMSO, 1956, Card Covers, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . Pamphlet. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #18939

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

328pp.
Royal Historical Society, 1982, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0861930959

Inventory #18867

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

'I saw a man fall with his brains beaten out, another with his throat cut, and a third with a stab wound to his chest, while the whole street was strewn with corpses' - Abbot John Whethamstede, eyewitness to the battle fought on the streets of St Albans on 22 May 1455. Contrary to popular opinion, the first battle of St Albans was an extremely significant event in England's medieval history. Not only did it mark the vacillating beginning of the Wars of the Roses, but it also proclaimed the start of an intense family blood feud which fuelled the wars over many succeeding generations to come. Indeed, the great family vendetta pursued by the Neville's and Percy's in the second half of the fifteenth century was instigated in the streets of St Albans. What prompted Richard of York to take up arms in the first place? What remains of the medieval town today? Where did the main action take place? Andrew Boardman answers these tantalising questions and discusses other misinterpreted theories about the first battle of St Albans: a battle of the Wars of the Roses where the streets ran red with blood. 190pp.
Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0752429833

Inventory #20874

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

229pp.
Royal Historical Society, 1977, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No Jacket. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 090105030X

Inventory #18866

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

Lacks ffep. Edges and corners of D/J slightly rubbed. One Library stamp. 318pp.
Chatto & Windus, 1971, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Ex Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #23097

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 19.75 approx. - € 15.10 approx.)

In 1204 events in Normandy resulted in the French King taking over the Duchy and evicting the great-great grandson of William the Conqueror. Channel Islanders who had been part of the Duchy of Normandy for over 170 years found themselves in a peculiar situation - the path they took meant that they were no longer part of Normandy and yet they did not become part of England. The foundations of whatever Jersey, Guernsey and the other islands are today were laid down in the years that followed 1204. 65pp.
Jersey Heritage Trust, 2004, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0953885860

Inventory #20184

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)