Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

This three-volume work of Byzantine history by the ex-Emperor John VI Cantacuzene (c. 1292-1383) was edited by Ludwig Schopen (1799-1867) and published between 1828 and 1832. It covers 1321-57; Schopen's edition includes a Latin translation and the life of John by the Jesuit scholar, Pontanus (1542-1626).

This three-volume Greek/Latin edition of the History by Nicephorus Gregoras (c. 1295-1360) was edited by Ludwig Schopen (Volumes 1 and 2, 1829-30) and Immanuel Bekker (Volume 3, 1855). Volume 1 introduces Gregoras' life and works, and the Greek text begins with the Fall of Constantinople in 1204.

This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9),with a French translation was published in 1853. In Volume 1, he describes his departure from Tangier and eventual arrival at Mecca, after which he decides to continue his travels.

This history of the reigns of the first two emperors of the Palaiologos Dynasty by George Pachymeres (1242-1310) was edited by the German scholar Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871), and published in two volumes in 1835. Volume 1 describes the life and reign of Michael Palaiologos.

This three-volume history, regarded as William Forbes Skene's most important work, was published between 1876 and 1880. Volume 2 deals with 'church and culture', including the Celtic churches of Scotland, Ireland and Cumbria, particularly the great centre of Iona, and the tradition of learning associated with Celtic monasticism.

William Stubbs (1825-1901) became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1866. His research on medieval England, based on primary sources, was foundational in its field. Volume 1 of this influential three-volume study (published 1874-8) highlights the importance of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon traditions in English political institutions.

This monumental 1849 publication was the first detailed analysis to compare Anglo-Saxon institutions with those of other Germanic peoples. Drawing on the evidence of early charters, Volume 1 discusses the Saxons' arrival in Britain and their laws and institutions, emphasising the relationship between land ownership and rank in Anglo-Saxon society.

Thierry's two-volume account of the Norman conquest of England was originally published in French in 1825, the English translation following in 1847. Volume 1 is divided into seven parts and accounts for the period from 55 BCE until the final battle of the English against the Norman conqueror in 1137.

Freeman reconsiders how the history of the Conquest is understood, and examines its causes and results. Tracing that history from its roots in fifth-century England, his volumes, published between 1867 and 1879, provide a comprehensive account of the politics and life of early medieval England as it underwent significant changes.

Henry of Bracton (or Bratton) (c. 1210-1268) was an English jurist. These volumes contain a collection of 2,000 law cases, each with a description of how the law should be applied. Volume 2 contains the texts of Pleas in the Bench from 1218 to 1234.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1891) was a celebrated German medieval historian. His monumental study of medieval Rome, first published in 1872 and translated into English between 1894 and 1902, was the first modern account of the medieval history of the city. Volume 1 covers the period 400-568.

Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature and history. Published 1799-1805, this four-volume work was a benchmark in Anglo-Saxon studies, drawing on manuscripts in the British Museum.

Otto Seeck (1850-1921) was a student of Theodor Mommsen, to whom he dedicated this, his first major work, published in 1876. The 'Notitia dignitatum' edited here is an unparalleled source of data about the administrative structure of the later Roman empire, east and west.

Published in 1868, this edition of a thirteenth-century Latin manuscript contains charters from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. It documents the property transactions and finances of a Benedictine abbey in south-west France, and also contains a substantial introduction, a thorough index, a glossary of place-names and a chronological table.

This 1911 work examines the text (of which Bury provides an edition) of the 'Kletorologion' of Philotheos, an otherwise unknown administrative official at the Byzantine court of Leo VI in the late ninth century. The work is a guide to precedence, which at this time was of great political importance.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was a canon of Canterbury when he published this work - four essays on the history of the cathedral - in 1855. Taking events associated with Canterbury, he puts them in a wider historical context, describing the locations in which they were enacted, and including fascinating details from literary sources.

Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887-1973) published this work in 1922 for social and legal historians who did not require the full critical apparatus and contextual material previously provided in German by Felix Lieberman. The book covers the early Anglo-Saxon laws from Aethelbert to Aethelstan, with a facing-page modern English translation.

One of the oldest English-language cookbooks, compiled originally in the late fourteenth century by the master cooks of Richard II. This 1780 transcription from the manuscript roll then belonging to Gustavus Brander, a trustee of the British Museum, was made and annotated by the antiquary Samuel Pegge (1704-96).

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this ten-volume collection, published between 1909 and 1955, is an annotated calendar of abstracts and transcriptions of documents relating to the whole of Yorkshire, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

John Lister (1847-1933) was a philanthropist, politician and landowner near Halifax. He edited for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society this 1924 publication. Containing transcriptions of customs records of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the work illuminates the development and social impact of an important local industry.

This detailed two-volume chartulary of the Cluniac priory of St John of Pontefract, is a valuable resource for Yorkshire history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Compiled in the mid-thirteenth century, and published 1899-1902, it contains 556 Latin charters arranged by type, with comprehensive notes and English summaries throughout.