A reassessment of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the second half of the seventeenth century, demonstrating that the conflict was primarily about trade.

An examination of the actions of clerics in warfare in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking at the difference between their actions and prescriptions for behavior.

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency.

Offers a regional study of women in 13th-century England, making use of charters, chronicles, government records and other sources to examine the interaction of gender, status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire. This book investigates the lives of noblewomen, townswomen, and women religious from a variety of angles.

A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.