1. Das Capital, Volume 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
2. The City in History
   Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1961
   Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
3. Common Women
   Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
   Resource Type: Book
   Karras analyzes medieval attitudes towards prostitutes and female sexuality.
4. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
5. Continuous Excursions
   Politics and Personal Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1982
   Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
6. Dictionary of the Middle Ages
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
7. The History of Democracy
   A Marxist Interpretation
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
8. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
   Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
9. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
   Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1978
   Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
10. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
11. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    

Experts on Middle Ages in the Sources Directory

1. J. Paul Getty Museum
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art
3. Museo Nacional del Prado