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A list of those sources physically located within the Towers, with some links to sites where this information is available online. For a more extensive list of online historical sites, see the Historical Sites page. New items are indicated with NEW.
- General Sources
- Atlases / Maps
- European Medieval Sources
- Asian Medieval Sources
- Anglo-Saxon / Viking Sources
- Roman / Celtic Britain Sources
- Ancient / Classical Sources
- Pre-historic Sources
General Sources [Top]
World History - A New Perspective (Ponting, Pimlico, 2000)
Civilisation (Fernandez-Armesto, Pan, 2000)
Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond, Vintage, 1998)
Facing the Ocean (Cunliffe, Oxford, 2002)
Warriors of the Steppe - a military history of central Asia - 500 BC to 1700 AD (Hildinger, De Capo, 2001)
India - A History (Keay, Haper Collins, 2000)
A Taste of History - 10,000 years of food in Britain (Black et al, English Heritage, 1997)
British Archaeology (Archaeological Texts, 2001)
Silk Road Chronology (Silk Road Foundation)
Council for British Archaeology - Research Reports
Geography - The Penguin Dictionary of (Clark (ed), Penguin, 1998 (2nd ed))
Science - The Oxford Dictionary of (Oxford, 1999)
Atlases / Maps [Top]
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (McEvedy, Penguin, 1999)
Atlas of the Year 1000 (Mahn, Penguin, 1999)
Atlas of Medieval Europe (MacKay, Routledge, 1997)
The Penguin Atlas of World History, Vol. 1. (Kinder & Hilgemann, Penguin, 1978)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Scarre, Penguin, 1995)
The Times Atlas of European History (McKitterick et al, Times, 1994)
The Times Medieval World (McKitterick ed., Times, 2003)
A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to Saint Louis (Davis, Longman, 1970)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Saul, Oxford, 1997)
The Pimlico Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages (Cantor, Pimlico,1999)
The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Harvey (ed), Oxford, 2001)
The Thirteenth Century - 1216-1307 (Powicke, Oxford, 1962)
Thirteenth Century England V - Proceedings of the New castle-upon-Tyne Conference 1993 (Coss & Lloyd (eds), Boydell, 1995)
The Early Middle Ages (McKitterick (ed), Oxford, 2001)
The Making of Europe - Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change 950-1350 (Bartlett, Penguin, 1994)
Mohammed and Charlemagne (Pirenne, Dover,1954, reprinted 2001)
A History of Medieval Spain (O'Callaghan, Cornell, 1975)
Medieval Scandinavia (Sawyer and Sawyer, Minesota, 1993) NEW
The Norman Kingdom of Sicily (Matthew, Cambridge, 1992) NEW
The Barbarian Conversion - from Paganism to Christianity (Fletcher, University of California, 1999)
The Cresent and the Cross: Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation (Fletcher, Penguin, 2003)
The Templars and the Assassins (Wasserman, Destiny, 2001)
Magic in the Middle Ages (Kieckhefer, Cambridge, 1989)
The Saxon and Norman Kings (Brooke, Fontana, 1963)
England under the Normans and Angevins (Davis, Methuen, 1905)
England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (Bartlett, Oxford, 2000)
The Struggle for Mastery - Britain 1066-1284 (Carpenter, Penguin, 2003)
Froissart's Chronicles (Jolliffe (ed), Penguin, 1967)
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Weir, Pimlico, 2000)
Heraldry - Sources, Symbols and Meaning (Neubecker, Macdonald, 1977)
Medieval Warfare - A History (Keen, Oxford, 1999)
The Medieval Castle - life in a fortress in peace and war (Warner, Penguin, 1971)
Life in a Medieval Castle (Gies, Harper, 1971)
Castles - Their Constructions and History (Toy, Dover, 1939, reprinted 1985)
The Mediaeval Builder and His Methods (Andrews, Dover, 1922, reprinted 1999)
The Medieval Machine - The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages (Gimpel, 1976)
Medieval Industry - CBA Research Report No. 40 (1981)
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages (Gies, 1994)
De Re Metallica (Agricola, trans. Hoover, Dover, 1950)
Life in a Medieval City (Gies, Harper, 1969)
The Growth of the Medieval City (Nicholas, Longman, 1997)
The Archaeology of Medieval London (Thomas, Sutton, 2002) NEW
Power and Profit - the Merchant in Medieval Europe (Spufford, Thames & Hudson, 2002) (see review Guardian Unlimited Books)
Origins of the European Economy: Communication & Commerce, AD 300 to 900 (McCormick, Cambride, 2000) (see review Griffiths, Economic History Services)
Dark Age Economics - The origins of towns and trade AD600-1000 (Hodges, Duckworth, 1989)
The Carolingian Economy (Verhulst, Cambridge, 2002)
Standards of living in the later Middle Ages (Dyer, Cambridge, 1989)
Everyday life in Medieval England (Dyer, Hambledon, 2000)
Making a Living in the Middle Ages - The People of Britain 850 - 1520 (Dyer, Penguin, 2003) NEW
A Commercialising Economy - England 1086 to c.1300 (Britnell & Campbell eds, Manchester, 1995) NEW
A Medieval Capital and its Grain Supply: Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Region c.1300 (Campbell, Galloway, Keene & Murphy, Historical Geography Research Series - No. 30, 1993) NEW
The Commercialisation of English Society 1000-1500 (Britnell, Manchester, 1996)
The Medieval Economy and Society - An Economic History of Britain 1100-1500 (Postan, 1972)
The Fontana Economic History of Europe - the Middle Ages (Cipolla (ed), Fontana, 1972)
Before the Industrial Revolution - European Society and Economy 1000-1700 (Cipolla, Norton, 1994)
Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents Translated with Introductions and Notes (Lopez & Raymond, Collumbia University Press, 1955) - has been reprinted 2001.
Modelling the Middle Ages - The history and theory of England's economic development (Hatcher & Bailey, Oxford, 2001)
History of Business in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 (Hunt &Murray, Cambridge, 1999)
The German Hansa (Dollinger, MacMillan, 1970) NEW
The Domesday Book - A Complete Translation (Martin (ed), Penguin, 2002)
Domesday Book (Hallam & Bates (eds), Tempus, 2001)
The Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays on the Early History of England (Maitland, 1905)
The Farmer, the Domesday Book (and Beyond) (Banks, 2000)
Medieval Demography - Essays by Josiah C. Russell (Russell, AMS, 1987)
Medieval Regions and their Cities (Russell, David &Charles, 1972)
Peasants, Merchants and Markets (Masschaele, St Martins, 1997)
Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (Kowaleski, Cambridge, 1995) NEW
Life in a Medieval Village (Gies, Harper, 1990)
The Medieval Village (Goulton, Dover, 1925, reprinted 1989)
The Medieval Farming Year (Staples, 1999)
Walter of Henley's Husbandry (available at Andy Staples Penultimate Harn page)
Seneschaucie (available at Andy Staples Penultimate HarnPage)
The Anonymous Husbandry (available at Andy Staples Penultimate HarnPage)
The Book of Husbandry by Master Fitzherbert (available at Sara Douglass's web site)
The Art of Gardening from the Goodman of Paris - 1392 (available at Sara Douglass's web site)
Sara Douglass's 'World of Medieval Europe'
Lionheart - Living history England 1190AD (King, Columbia Games, 1987)
Robin Hood - The Role Playing Campaign (Staplehurst, ICE, 1987)
Arabian Nights - Genre Book (Cambias, ICE, 1994)
At Rapier's Point - Genre Book (Scrivner, ICE, 1993)
Asian Medieval Sources [Top]
A History of Japan (Mason & Caiger, Tuttle, 1997)
The World Turned Upside Down - Medieval Japanese Society (Souyri, Columbia, 2001)
The Bakufu in Japanese History (Mass & Hauser (eds), Oxford, 1993)
Warrior Rule in Japan (Jansen, Cambridge, 1995)
Anglo-Saxon / Viking Sources [Top]
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Lapidge ed, 1999)
Anglo-Saxon England (Stenton, Oxford, 1971)
Encylopaedia of the Viking Age (Haywood, Thames & Hudson, 2000) NEW
The Church in Anglo-Saxon England (Godfrey, Cambridge, 1962)
The Early English Kings (Kirby, Routledge, 2001)
The English Settlements (Myres, Oxford, 1986)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (Sawyer, Oxford, 1997)
The Saxon and Norman Kings (Brooke, Fontana, 1963)
1066 - The Year of The Three Battles (McLynn, Pimlico, 1999)
Bloodfeud - Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England (Fletcher, Penguin, 2002)
The Year 1000 (Lacey and Danziger, Abacus, 2000)
The Real Middle Earth - Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages (Bates, Sidgwick &Jackson, 2002)
An Invitation to Old English & Anglo-Saxon England (Mitchell, Blackwell, 1995)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
Post-Roman / Anglo-Saxon Britain (England, a Narrative History)
The Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Bede - A History of the English Church and People (Trans. Sherley-Price, Penguin, 1955)
Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars (Nicolle, Osprey, 1984)
Vikings - Campaign Classics (Gold, ICE, 1989)
Roman / Celtic Britain Sources [Top]
An Age of Tyrants - Britain and the Britons AD 400-600 (Snyder, Penn, 1998)
A History of Roman Britain (Salway, Oxford, 1997)
AD43 - The Roman Invasion of Britain (Manley, Tempus, 2002)
Ancient Celts (Newark & McBride, Concord, 1997)
The Celtic Realms (Dillon & Chadwick, Phoenix, 1967)
The Sea Kingdoms: A History of Celtic Britain & Ireland (Moffat, HaperCollins, 2001)
Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford, 1998)
Pre-Roman and Roman Britain (4Learning.co.uk)
Roman Britain (England, a Narrative History, Britannia.com)
Ancient / Classical Sources [Top]
The Ancient Celts (Cunliffe, Penguin, 1997)
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (Braudel, Penguin, 2001)
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek (Cunliffe, 2002)
Greeks, Romans & Barbarians - Spheres of Influence (Cunliffe, 1988)
Becoming Roman - The Origins of Provincial Civilisation in Gaul (Woolf, 2000) See review.
The Barbarians Speak - How the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe (Wells, Princeton, 1999)
Interpreting Late Antiquity (Bowerstock et al (eds), Harvard, 2001) NEW
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Shaw, Oxford, 2000)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (Boardman et al, Oxford, 1986)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World (Boardman et al, Oxford, 1986)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Scarre, Penguin, 1995)
The World of Athens (Cambridge, 1984)
Byzantium - The Early Centuries (Norwich, Penguin, 1988)
Byzantium - The Apogee (Norwich, Penguin, 1991)
Libraries in the Ancient World (Casson, Yale, 2001) NEW
Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (Duncan-Jones, Cambridge, 2002)
Ancient and Medieval Warfare, The Hutchinson Dictionary of (Emblen (ed), 2001)
Warfare in the Classical World (Warry, Salamander, 1998)
Ancient Armies (Newark & McBride, Concord, 2000)
Caesar's Legion (Dando-Collins, John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
Mythic Greece - Age of Heroes (Allston, ICE, 1988)
Mythic Egypt - Campaign Classic (Wajenburg, ICE, 1990)
Pre-historic Sources [Top]
The Age of Stonehenge (Burgess, Phoenix, 1980)
Hengeworld (Pitts, Arrow, 2001)
Prehistoric England (Cavendish, Guild, 1983)
Pre-Roman Britain (England, a Narrative History, Britannia.com)
Neolithic Warfare (Ferrill, Military History Quarterly)
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