Barry Powell, Classical Myth
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
G. R. Watson, The Roman Soldier
Graham Webster, The Roman Imperial Army
William Stearns Davis, Life on a Mediaeval Barony
John Harvey, Mediaeval Craftsmen
Frances Gies, The Knight in History
Margaret Wade Labarge, A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century
Nathan Schachner, The Mediaeval Universities
Jean Gimpel, The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
Sidney Toy, Castles: Their Construction and History
Zoé Oldenbourg, The Crusades
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: The Growth of Ties of Dependence
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization
G. G. Coulton, Medieval Village, Manor, and Monastery
Gwyn Jones, A History of the Viking
R. Allen Brown, English Castles
Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
François Matarasso, The English Castle
S. R. Turnbull, The Samurai: A Military History
Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch’s Medieval Mythology
Peter Speed, Those Who Fought: An Anthology of Medieval Sources
Peter Speed, Those Who Prayed
Peter Speed, Those Who Worked
Andrew McCall, The Medieval Underworld
Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch’s Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne
John W. Baldwin, The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages
Frances B. Andrews, The Medieval Builder and His Methods
Jacqueline Simpson, Everyday Life in the Viking Age
Johannes Brøndsted, The Vikings
Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
John Man, Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection
Leo De Hartog, Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World
Hans Delbrück, Medieval Warfare
Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
Henri Pirenne, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
Joseph and Frances Gies, Life in a Medieval City
Joseph and Frances Gies, Merchants and Moneymen: The Commercial Revolution, 1000-1500
Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Village
Joseph and Francis Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle
Marc Bloch, Land and Work in Medieval Europe
Lloyd and Jennifer Liang, Medieval Britain: The Age of Chivalry
Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, trs., The Mabinogion
Stephen Howarth, The Knights Templar
Clemente Manenti and Markus Bollen, Castles in Italy: The Medieval Life of Noble Families
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Roundtable, Alfred W. Pollard’s abridgement of Malory
Edward William Lane, trs, Stories from The Thousand and One Nights
Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II, Vol. 1
Norman F. Cantor, The Medieval Reader
Simon Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC
Katherine Fischer Drew, The Laws of the Salian Franks
Jean Froissart, Chronicles
Chas S. Clifton, Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics
Clive Cheesman & Jonathan Williams, Rebels, Pretenders, & Impostors
Frances and Joseph Gies, Women in the Middle Ages
T.G.E. Powell, The Celts
John Clark, ed., The Medieval Horse and Its Equipment
Alice Zimmern, The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks
G. G. Coulton, Medieval Panorama: The English Scene from Conquest to Reformation
Maurice Keen, The Pelican History of Medieval Europe
Norman F. Cantor, Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization
John Matthews, The Book of Arthur: Lost Tales from the Round Table
James Chambers, The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe
H.R. Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
Charles Petit-Dutaillis, The Feudal Monarchy in France and England from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century
Caesar, The Civil War
Herodotus, The Histories
David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror
Michael Brown, The Black Douglases
B.H. Liddell Hart, Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
Julius Caesar, The Battle for Gaul
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
Erik Hildinger, Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.
John Julius Norwich, Byzantium: The Apogee
Christian Meier, Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
L. Sprague De Camp, The Ancient Engineers
Jesse L. Byock, trans., The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, trans., Orkneyinga Saga
Winston S. Churchill, The Birth of Britain, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1
Winston S. Churchill, The New World, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2
William Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
John W. Dardess, Ming China 1368–1644
Steven Runciman, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, A History of the
Crusades, Vol. 1
Steven Runciman, The Kingdom of Jerusalem, Vol. 2
Steven Runciman, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades, Vol. 3
Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Antonio Santosuo, Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare
Thomas Asbridge, The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five
English Thrones
Zoé Oldenbourg, Massacre at Montségur
Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade: The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
Viđar Hreinsson, gen. ed., The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Vol. 3
The Holy Bible
The Koran
The Bhagavadgita
The Analects
David Hinton, trans., Mencius
Burton Watson, trans., Xunzi: Basic Writings
Burton Watson, trans., Han Feizi



