Books by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

An extraordinary journey through the history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present day

Intends to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences.

Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. This book discusses the ways in which this transformation took place.

A vivid new book from an established and bestselling historian

The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century

A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.