General texts:

• Barber, Malcolm, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320Link opens in a new window (London, 2004) (NB The Library has a NetLibrary copyLink opens in a new window)
• Bartlett, Robert, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350Link opens in a new window (Harmondsworth, 1993)
• Power, Daniel, The Central Middle Ages (Oxford, 2006)
• Waley, Daniel, Later Medieval EuropeLink opens in a new window, 3rd ed. revised by Peter Denley (Harlow, 2001)

 

Other suggested general texts:

• Bull, Marcus, Thinking medieval : an introduction to the study of the Middle Ages (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• Collins, Roger, Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000Link opens in a new window, 2nd ed. (Basingstoke, 1999)
• Cook, William, and Herzman, Ronald, The Medieval World ViewLink opens in a new window (New York, 1983)
• Crouch, David, Medieval Britain c.1000-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Hay, Denys, Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesLink opens in a new window, 2nd ed. (London, 1989)
• Holmes, George, (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval EuropeLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 1988)
• Jordan, W.C., Europe in the High Middle Ages (Harmondsworth, 2002)
• Le Goff, J., Medieval CivilizationLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 1990)
• Linehan, Peter, and Janet Nelson (eds), The Medieval WorldLink opens in a new window (London, 2001)
• McKitterick, Rosamund (ed.), The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000Link opens in a new window (Oxford, 2001)
• Mundy, John H., Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1150-1309Link opens in a new window, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 1991)
• Nicholas, David, The Evolution of the Medieval WorldLink opens in a new window (Harlow, 1992)
• Rosenthal, Joel (ed.), Understanding Medieval Primary Sources (London, 2012)
• Wickham Chris, Medieval Europe (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016)