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The Muslims of Medieval Italy
by Alex Metclafe
This introductory volume focuses on the formation and disintegration of Arab-Muslim rule and society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300 which led to the creation of an enduring Muslim-Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines the long and short-term impact of Islamic authority and culture on these regions and how they later fell into the hands of European rulers, explaining how the Norman conquest of Sicily came ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.99
On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Architecture and Urbanism in the Cathedral and the Streets of Medieval Florence
by Franklin Toker
This volume asks just one question: had the Florence Duomo never been excavated, what could we have known of the legendary cathedral of S. Reparata below it? The answer comes through the transcription of two key texts: one, never published until now, was written for the cathedral clergy around 1190; the other was composed around 1230, and printed just once, in the eighteenth century. English translations bring to life the liturgical year in ...
Hardback. Price GB £94.00
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
by G. Geltner
We will all have a mental image of a medieval prison, probably derived ultimately from Hollywood, but as this fascinating study shows the reality was somewhat different. For a start the idea of a prison was a comparatively late one - incarceration as a punishment in itself only really appears in the 13th century, and prisons started to be built from the 1250s onwards. In particular the rise of the prison was an urban phenomenon, and Geltner's ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.95
Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy
by Eyolf Ostrem and Nils Holger Petersen
The polyphonic lauda had its place of prominence in the lay devotional confraternities in Italian cities in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. A main theme of this volume is the influence of art music in devotional contexts dominated by ritual functionality, where a modern aesthetic perspective is rarely employed. The authors raise fundamental questions about the validity of such a distinction between functional simplicity ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.00
Memory and Community in Medieval Southern Italy
by Charles Hilken
This book presents a detailed analysis of the necrology of the Benedictine priory of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca, in existence from 1156 to the early sixteenth century. The necrology records the names and dates for the deaths of all the monks resident at the priory, enabling a sophisticated study of trends in the population of the priory, the kinds of names used and what this can tell us about the monks as well as the titles of offices given. ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Prato: Architecture, Piety and Political Identity
by Alick M. McLean
This lavishly illustrated and really rather beautiful book focuses on the construction of just one medium sized Italian city-state, Prato. In particular Alick McLean considers the political context of the city's architecture, planned very deliberately and expressing Prato's sovereignty and centralised communal identity. McLean also explores the relationship between secular authority and the church as expressed in the city's architecture, and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
The Latin Church in Norman Italy
by G.A. Loud
A study of the incorporation of the Church in southern Italy into the mainstream of Latin Christianity during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor G. A. Loud examines the relationship between Norman rulers, south Italian churchmen and the external influence of the new 'papal monarchy'. He discusses the impact of the creation of the new kingdom of Sicily in 1130; the tensions that arose from the papal schism of that era; and the religious ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £81.00, Our Price GB £24.95
The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457
by Dennis Romano
This substantial study traces the career of Francesco Foscari, Doge from 1423-57, setting the turbulent events of his reign against the backdrop of wider European political, economic and social developments, and examining their impact for the Venetian political system. 468p b/w and col pls (Yale UP 2007)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £25.00, Our Price GB £9.95
Marco Polo
by Jonathan Clements
A concise study of Marco Polo's life and travels, focusing principally on the Chinese context and veracity of his writing. 168p b/w illus (Haus Publishing 2007)
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The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth Century Italy
by Marianne Pade
Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been unknown in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but when Renaissance humanists rekindled interest in Greek language and culture, he became one of the most widely read authors of the period. These two volumes show how Plutarch came to influence fifteenth-century Italian culture and how the ...
Hardback. Price GB £82.50
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