![]() ![]() So these books are all research monographs, which make original arguments based on the author’s own engagement with the sources.īut they’re not typical academic monographs: they’re books I think A level students (and others) might enjoy as well as profit from, and that don’t require lots of background knowledge. There are of course shelf-loads of these, and many are absolutely brilliant (and have been very influential) but listing them would be an entirely different exercise. To start off with, I’m not including textbooks or popular syntheses. To make the job manageable, what follows is a “top ten” of quite a particular kind of book. ![]() Medieval European history is a vast and ever-growing field, so coming up with a top ten book-list is no small task. ![]()
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