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

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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

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