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10 best books like The History of the Franks (Gregory of Tours): Confessions, The Twelve Caesars, The Song of Roland, The Secret History, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Campaigns of Alexander, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, Two Lives of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Chronicles

Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
The Twelve Caesars
AuthorSuetonius
ISBN0140449213
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...
The Song of Roland
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0140440755
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written...
The Secret History
AuthorProcopius
ISBN0140441824
Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in The Secret History the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the sixth century. Justinian, the great law-giver, appears as a hateful tyrant, wedded to an ex-prostitute,...
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
AuthorBede
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.

The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
The Campaigns of Alexander
AuthorArrian
ISBN0140442537
'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique...
The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales
AuthorGerald of Wales
ISBN0140443398
Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...
Two Lives of Charlemagne
AuthorEinhard
ISBN0140442138
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire

Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
AuthorAsser
ISBN0140444092
This is a great book to get hold of if you are interested in the Anglo-Saxons or early medieval history. It's packed full of source material - enough to get the curious going, not just Asser's life of Alfred which fascinatingly stops well before Alfred's death (did Asser just die unbeknown to us before...
Chronicles
AuthorJean Froissart
ISBN0140442006
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle...
Chronicles of the Crusades
AuthorJean de Joinville
ISBN0140441247
Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw

Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
AuthorVarious
ISBN1419152319
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original ms. of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were distributed...
The Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline
AuthorSallust
ISBN0140441328
"The Conspiracy of Catiline" (his first published work) contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as the deliberate foe of law, order and morality, and does not give a comprehensive explanation of his views and intentions....
The Beginnings of Rome: Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
AuthorTim J. Cornell
ISBN0415015960
Using the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome. The beginnings of Rome, once thought to be lost in the mists of legend, are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological...
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
AuthorBryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN0192807285
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...
The Anglo-Saxons
AuthorJames Campbell
ISBN0140143955
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
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