The Knight's Journey (Echoes of the Past: Defining Moments That Shaped History)
by A Peters
Exploring the Life, Myth, and Art of the Medieval World (Civilizations of the World)
by Tony Allan and Clifford Bishop
Medieval Castles (Cambridge Introduction to World History)
by Conrad Cairns
From simple palisades to sophisticated fortress-palaces, this book explains how castles evolved to meet the demands of feudal society and improving technology. While centred on British castles, the book constantly sets them in a wider background and makes stimulating comparisons with developments in other countries to show the influences that affected castle builders. Conrad Cairns pays special attention to smaller castles, including the tower-houses of Scotland and Ireland and shows how the cas...
Crusaders, Samurai and Aztecs (Picture history) (The childrens picture world history)
by Anne Millard
-- A brilliant overview of world history from prehistoric times to the early 20th century-- Prepared with the help of experts in each period-- Lots of illustrations provide an attractive and stimulating starting point to each subject
Life in a Medieval Monastery (Cambridge Introduction to World History)
by Anne Boyd
The Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind, already established as an authoritative introduction to history, is undergoing a major revision. The series, comprising nearly 60 titles, is remarkable for the breadth and variety of its approach as well as for its clearly written texts which are fully illustrated with drawings, maps and diagrams.