Michael Livingston Books in Order

Livingston edits the medieval alliterative poem depicting the Roman destruction of Jerusalem's Second Temple. His edition presents the text with scholarly guidance, placing its graphic violence and anti-Jewish elements within the literary and historical culture that produced it.

This edited casebook collects historical and literary evidence for the battle of 937, presenting original-language sources with translations and annotations. Contextual essays examine its disputed location, political significance, and enduring representation in chronicles, poetry, and national memory.

Livingston's scholarly edition presents an anonymous medieval verse retelling of Old Testament narratives. Drawing on Peter Comestor and other literary sources, the poem expands biblical stories for ordinary readers, illuminating the relationship between scripture and medieval English storytelling.

Coedited with John K. Bollard, this casebook gathers translated documents, letters, poems, and laws concerning the Welsh leader's rebellion against England. Essays provide historical and literary context for understanding his career, political ambitions, and changing reputation across later centuries.

Tabitha Hoarse Raven, the last speaker of her language, returns to the ruins of her people’s home. Memories, ancestral voices, and the power of words converge in a story about cultural survival and the consequences of silence.

Livingston and Kelly DeVries assemble contemporary sources for the English victory at Crécy in 1346. Translated chronicles, letters, and poems accompany interpretive essays that reassess the battle's events, location, European reception, and transformation into historical legend.

After Julius Caesar's assassination, rival heirs compete for Rome while Prince Juba pursues relics believed to hold divine power. Soldiers, scholars, spies, and Cleopatra's young daughter become entangled in a magical conflict beneath the empire's civil wars.

Cleopatra Selene and her husband Juba face new dangers as Augustus summons them to the Cantabrian frontier. His ambition to wield Juba's supernatural relic in war entangles imperial politics with powers that threaten the couple and their world.

During his conquest of Egypt, Alexander the Great crosses the desert after consulting the oracle at Siwa. An encounter with Nubian rulers draws him and Hephaestion into a struggle to protect the Ark of the Covenant from danger.

The Ark of the Covenant and its remaining guardians reach Petra, pursued by demons allied with Tiberius. With powerful sacred relics already in enemy hands, their struggle spreads across the Roman world and threatens the foundations of creation.

Shipmistress Bela leads the Sandcrow into frozen northern waters seeking a legendary power to aid her people in war. Trapped by ice, her crew must survive harsh conditions and confront assumptions about gender, prejudice, and the magic they pursue.

Aerial raiders threaten the seafaring houses of the Fair Isles, prompting pirate Shae to capture an enemy captain. Their unexpected alliance uncovers a shared history and sends them searching for the source of the blood magic dividing their peoples.

Livingston and Kelly DeVries examine Hastings and the campaigns that brought Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy into conflict. Bayeux Tapestry imagery and modern research support a reconstruction of events, alongside practical guidance for visiting the battlefields and related sites.

As the Windborn threaten war, Bela seeks an ancient portal in the Sea of Ice while Shae confronts mechanical soldiers. Alira uncovers the Bloodborn’s disturbing magic, and all three women face revelations that could reshape their endangered world.

Livingston reconstructs the battle of Brunanburh in 937 and explains its importance to England's emergence. Combining historical narrative with the modern search for its battlefield, he examines the rival armies, surviving evidence, and challenges of recovering a distant conflict.

Livingston revisits Edward III's victory over the French in 1346, questioning familiar accounts of the battle. Manuscript research, fieldwork, and satellite evidence inform both his reconstruction of events and his argument about where the fighting actually took place.

Drawing on Robert Jordan's notes and interviews, Livingston explores the author's life and the creation of The Wheel of Time. A reference section traces historical, literary, and mythological influences behind the series' names, characters, and imagined world.

Livingston returns to original sources, including a surviving French battle plan, to reconsider Henry V’s victory at Agincourt. His reconstruction challenges the traditional battlefield location and explores the experience of the men who fought in the celebrated engagement.

Livingston places the Hundred Years War within two centuries of conflict stretching across medieval Europe. Battles beyond England and France reveal how changes in military organization, technology, politics, and national identity helped shape the emergence of the modern world.

War brings the Fair Isles toward a reckoning as Bela searches the skies for peace and Alira leads refugees seeking shelter. Shae faces the sacrifices love demands, while newly revealed magic threatens to tear their world apart.