Books and Movies-Medieval Times

                               Reference Books
Dictionary of Historical Terms                 by Chris Cook
Medieval Underworld                                by Andrew McCall
§ CODEX manuscript in book form during the Middle Ages
ANCIENT READING
Some are diaries, military records, challenges, demands and boastful tales. Each is written in their own language to see how our language has evolved. Some the language, especially Scottish, is hard to read while some is easily read and understood even though all the words are spelled differently.

1. Book of Favites of Armes and of Chyualrye
          By William Caxton
2. Firste volum of syr John Froissart of the cronycles of Englande and France
          By John Bourchier Berners
3. Common-wealth of England and manor of government thereof
           By Sir John Smith
ARMS & ARMOR
Arms & Armor 9th century to 17^th              by Paul Martin
Arms and Armour in England                    by James Man
Arms & Armour in Medieval Prussia        by Andrzej Nowakowski
Arms & Armour in the Age Of Chivalry      by Aldo Cimarelli
Arms & Uniforms-Age of Chivalry Part 1 by Ward Lock Limited
Armour and Blade                                        by S. Ellacott
Armor                                                              by Sean Morrison
Armor                                                              by Peter Klucina
European Armour circa 1066-1700      by Claude Blair
Glossary of Arms and Armor              by George Stone
Mediaeval Arms And Armour             by Jennifer Pearson
Medieval Craftsman-Armourers         by Matthias Pfaffenbichler
     HAND to HAND COMBAT
     Art and History of Personal Combat     by Arthur Wise
     Combat Sports in the Ancient World    by Michael B. Poliakoff
     Medieval Hand-to-hand Combat          by Keith P. Myers
     WEAPONS
     Anglo-Saxon Weapons & Warfare       by Richard Underwood
     British Cut And Thrust Weapons          by John W.Latham
     European Weapons and Armour          by R. E. Oakeshott
     Sword in Anglo Saxon England            by H. R. Ellis Davidson
     Viking Weapons and Warfare              by J. Kim   Tempus
     Weapons and Warfare                       by A. V. B. Norman
     Weapons&Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England by Sonia C. Hawke
BARBARIANS
Barbarians                                      by Tim Newark

BRITAIN-CELTS-ENGLAND
Armies and Warfare in Middle Ages   by K. Rutherford Davis
Castle Life in Medieval England          by John Burke
British                                             by M.I. Ebbutt
British Myths and Legneds                 by H.A. Guerber
English Experience                            by Michael Prestwich
English Folk Heroes                           by Christina Hole
English Warrior-early times to 1066    by Stephen Pollington
Celtic Art                                          by George Bain
Celtic Britain                                     by Lloyd Laing
Celtic Designs                                   by Eva Wilson
Celtic Battle Heroes                           by James Field
Celtic Gods & Goddesses                    by R.J. Stewart
Celtic Knotwork                                 by Ian Bain
Celtic Myth & Legends                       by T.W. Rolleston
Celts                                                by Gerhard Herm
Celtic Sword                                     by Radomir Pleiner
Celtic Warriors                                  by Tim Newark
Celtic Warrior Chiefs                          by John Matthews
Concise History of England                  by F.E. Halliday
English Folk Heroes                            by Christina Hole
English Myths and Legends                 by Henry Brett
English Weapons & Warfare                by A.V.B. Norman
History of English Church & People       by Leo Sherply Price
Knights                                              by Andrea Hopkins
Legends of the Celts                           by Frank Delaney
Magic Arts in Celtic Britain                   by Lewis Spence
Roman Britain                                     by S. Ireland
Atlas of Roman Britain                         by Barri Jones

CALLIGRAPHY
Left Handed Calligraphy                       by Vance Studley
Introduction into Calligraphy                 by George Evans
Medieval Calligraphy                            by Marc Drogin
Practical Guide to Calligraphy                by Rosemary Sassoon

CELT
Age of the Picts                                    by W.A. Cummins
Ancient Celts                                        by Barry Cunliffe
Battle for Gaul                                      by Julius Caeser
Celt and Greek                                     by Peter Berresford Ellis
Celtic Heroic Age                                  by John Koch
Celtic Empire                                        by Peter Berresford Ellis
Celtic Women                                       by Peter Berresford Ellis
Celtic World                                         by Patrick Lavin
Celts                                                   by Nora K. Chadwick
Celts in Europe                                     by Aedeen Cremin
Chronicles of the Celts                          by Peter Berresford Ellis
World of the Celts                                 by Simon James

CHURCH
Fires of Faith                                        by Newsweek
Warriors of Christendom                        by John Matthews

CHARLAMAGNE
Age of Charlemagne:
Warfare in Western Europe 750-1000      by David Nicolle

CHIVALRY
Age of Chivalry                                      by Nigel Sau
Age of Chivalry & Legends
of Charlemagne                                     by Bullfinch’s Mythology
Chivalry in the Renaissance                     by Sydney Anglo
History of Chivalry & Armor                     by Dr. F. Kottenkamp

COOKING & HERBS
Cookery in Imperial Rome                       by Apicius
Garden of Herbs                                     by Eleanor S. Rohde
Peasant’s Feast                                      by Barbara Kemp
Seven Centuries of English Cooking          by Maxime de la Falaise

CRUSADES
Arms & Armor of the Crusading Era          by David Nicolle
Crusades                                                by JohnathanSmith
Crusading Warfare 1097- 1193                 by R. C. Smail

DRUIDS
World of the Druids                                  by Miranda J. Green

FRANCE
Agincourt                                                by Christopher Hibbert

HERALDRY
Design Your Own Coat of Arms                  by Fox Davies
Heraldry                                                  by John M.Robinson

IRELAND
Ancient Irish Tales                                   by Tom Cross
Brehon Laws                                           by Laurence Ginnell
Early Irish Laws                                       by E. MacNeil
Elizabethans and the Irish                         by David Beers Quinn
Mythic Ireland                                          by Michael Dames
Oldest Irish Traditions-Window on Iron Ageby Kenneth Jackson
Pagan Celtic Ireland                                  by Barry Raferty
Pre-Christian Ireland                                 by Peter Harbison
Races of the Eldger Faiths of Ireland          by W.G. Wood
Sociall History of Ancient Ireland                 by P.W. Joyce
The Celtic Gauls                                        by Jean Louis Brunaux
Traditional Irish                                       by Mary Dowling Daley

ITALY
Gateway to the Middle Ages Italy                by Eleanor S.Duckett
Celt and Roman: Celts of Italy                    by Peter Berresford

LIFE
Concise Encyclopedia of Middle Ages           by H.R. Loyn
Everyday Life in the Middle Ages                 by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life in a Medieval Castle                             by Frances Gies
History of Medieval Europe                         by George Holmes
History of a Private Life                              by Phillipe Aries
Life in a Medieval City                                by Joseph Gies
Life in Medieval Times                               by Majorie Rowling
Marriage & Family in Middle Ages               by Frances Gies
Medieval Home Companion                        by Tania Bayard
Private Life in the Fifteenth Century            by Roger Virgoe
Then and Now                                         by Stefania Perring

MARTIAL ARTS
Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe              by Sydney Anglo

NOBILITY & ROYALTY
Nobles,Knights,Men-at-Arms in Middle Ages by Maurice Keen
Princely Arms And Armour                          by Johannes Schobel

NORMANS
Norman Knight 950-1204                             by Christopher Gruett

OPREY Military Men-at Arms SERIES       by Reed Consumer Books, Ltd.
Arthur & Anglo-Saxon Wars Age of Charlemagne
Armies of Agincourt Armies of Crecy’ & Poitiers
Armies of the Crusades Conquistadors
English Civil War Armies French Medieval Armies 1000-1300
German Armies 1300-1500 Irish Wars 1485-1603
Italian Armies 1300-1500 Henry the VIII’s Army
Knights of Christ Medieval Burgundy 1364-1477
Medieval European Armies Saxon, Viking, and Norman
Scots & Welsh Wars Swiss 1300-1500
Venetian Empire 1200-1670 Wars of the Roses

RUSSIA
Russian Arms and Armour                            by Yuri Miller

SAMARUI
Samauri Warlords                                       by Stephell Turnbull

SCOTLAND
Cutting Edge A Guide to Use of Highland
Weapons: The Broadsword and Targe          by Larry L. Andrews
Scottish Arms Makers-Biographical Dictionary by Charles E. Whitela
Scottish Dirks and Daggers -Illus                   by John Wallace
Scottish 'twa handit Swerdis                         by Tony Willis
SWORD
Book of the Sword                                       by Sir Richard Burton
Cut & Thrust                                               by Leon Bertran
Development of the Medieval Sword
c. 850 - 1300                                              by Ian Peirce
German Swords and Sword Makers              by Richard H. Bezdek
Medieval Combat:15th Century
Medieval Swordsmanship Illustrated              by John Clements
Modern Swordsmen– Realistic Training         by Fred Hutchinson
Myth of the Sword                                       by Hank Reinhardt
Sword in the Age of Chivalry                         by Ewart Oakeshott
Sword fighting&Close Quarter Combat           by Mark Rector
Swords & Hilt Weapons                                by Michael D Cole
Sword in Hand-Survey of Knightly Sword        by Ewart Oakeshott

TOURNAMENTS
Book of the Tournament                                by Brian R. Price
England and in France                                   by Francis H. Day
How to Win at Tournaments–
Jousting-The Earliest Treatises                       by Sydney Anglo
Techniques of Chivalric Combat                      by Sydney Anglo
Tudor & Jacobean Tournaments                     by Alan Young
Tournament and Literature:
French Works 1150 to 1226                           by Mary A.Santina
Tournaments:Jousts,Chivalry,Pageants in MA by Richard Barber

VIKING
Viking Age                                                    by Paul DuChaillu
Viking Art of War                                           by Paddy Griffith

WAR
Amies and Warfare in Middle Ages,
the English Experience                                   by Michael Prestwich
Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance           by J.R. Hale
Battledress                                                  by F. Wilkinson
Distant Mirror: Calamitous 14^th Century           by Barbara Tuchman
Face of Battle                                               by John Keegan
Fighting Man                                                 by Jack Coggins
Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th Century       by Kelly Devries
Mdieval Siege                                              by Jim Bradbury
Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses       by Andrew Boardman
Medieval Soldier                                          by A. V. B. Norman
Medieval Warfare - A History                         by Maurice Keen
Medieval Warfare                                          by Geoffrey Hindley
Medieval Warlords                                        by Tim Newark
Siege: Castles at War                                    by Daniel Diehl
Warfare in Feudal Europe                             by David Nicolle
Warriors of Medieval Times                            by John Matthews
Warriors and Warfare in
Ancient and Medieval Times                           by Donald Featherston
WARHORSE
The Medieval Warhorse                                 by R.H.C. Davis

WOMEN
Women in the Middle Ages                             by Frances Gies
Women Warlords                                          by Tim Newark