Books by Craig Taylor

First full English translation of a major text, narrating the adventures of the Jouvencel whilst interweaving them with advice on military tactics and strategies.

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

First English translation of the chivalric biography of one of France's leading figures of the middle ages.

A radical re-interpretation of the chivalric biography of Boucicaut.

While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment.

An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.

Moralism involves the distortion of moral thought, the distortion of reflection and judgement. It is a vice, and one to which many are highly susceptible. This book examines the nature of moralism in specific moral judgements and the ways in which moral philosophy and theories about morality can themselves become skewed by this vice.

'Gentle, subtle, absorbing ... the most complex and supple account of that much-discussed idea, "modern rural life", that I have ever read' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places