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Medieval Italy

Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice
by Angelo Cattaneo
Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its ...
Hardback. Price GB £81.00

Architecture Religieuse Haut-Médiévale en Italie Méridionale: le Diocèse de Bénévent
by Silvio Carella
English summary: Based on analysis of 38 churches built between the early seventh century and the first quarter of the ninth, this book has the ambition to take stock of the late-medieval monumental landscape of the Mezzogiorno. This volume is organized into two sections: the first contains references dealing with churches and identified complexes; the second is a summary, first presenting the technical and formal aspects, and ending with ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.00

The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305
by Jean Dunbabin
Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the middle ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean Dunbabin shows how influence flowed as much from ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

San Marco, Byzantium and the Myths of Venice
edited by Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson
The church of San Marco of Venice has long played a central role in Venetian political, ceremonial, and religious life. In this volume, the authors assess the significance of the embellishment of the church and its immediate surroundings, especially during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when most of its Byzantine material was acquired, largely from Constantinople. The church and its decoration are studied in relation to Venice's ...
Hardback. Price GB £44.95

San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops
by Richard Hodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conservation. Over the following eighteen years, a large multidisciplinary project was undertaken involving archaeologists, historians and art historians. This consisted of major open-area excavations of the early ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
edited by John E. Law and Bernadette Paton
Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late medieval and renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones original 1965 article, the volume then provides ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Joanna: The Notorious Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily
by Nancy Goldstone
This accessible narrative details all of the twists and turns of Queen Joanna of Naples' extraordinary life and rule. Nancy Goldstone brings the complex politics of the fourteenth century to life, exploring the nigh-on impossible position in which Joanna found herself, as the only woman of her age to rule in her own right. She looks at how marriage was used as a political tool, but also at how each of Joanna's marriages further complicated the ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa
by Quentin Van Doosselaere
Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa is an empirical study of medieval long-distance trade agreements and the surrounding social dynamics that transformed the feudal organization of men-of-arms into the world of Renaissance merchants. Drawing on 20,000 notarial records, the book traces the commercial partnerships of thousands of people in Genoa from 1150 to 1435 and reports social activity, on a scale that is unprecedented ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
by Fabrizio Titone
This study looks at the development of urban communities in Sicily in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and analyses the extraordinary power and influence which they were able to wield. Titone disects the different social instutions and governments of the cities, and notes the fluid power relations between various urban groupings and interests. He then traces the effect that these municipal power struggles had on royal policy, and on the ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.00

Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide
by Tyler Lansford
This is a collection of walking tours of Rome with a difference - it is centred not around the famous monuments, but on Rome's wealth of Latin inscriptions. Each tour contains an introductory section on the history and topography of the relevant area of Rome followed by transcriptions and translations of its most interesting inscriptions, from the early republic through the Middle Ages to the present day (as well as maps and advice on how to find ...
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