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Spices and Comfits: Collected Papers on Medieval Food
by Johanna Maria van Winter
Throughout a long academic career in Holland, Johanna Maria van Winter has specialized in the study of food and drink in the Middle Ages. She has contributed several papers to learned journals and specialist conferences are gathered here within a single volume. The papers are printed for the most part in English but with some German and French texts.
The subjects break down into four groups: Medieval Food Habits; The Netherlands and ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00
The Franks Casket
by Leslie Webster
The whalebone box known as the Franks Casket has intrigued and puzzled viewers since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century. Made in northern England in the eighth century AD, the sides and lids of the rectangular casket carry some of the richest and most intricate carvings known from Anglo-Saxon times. The lively scenes depicted are drawn from a variety of sources, including Germanic and Roman legends and Jewish and Christian stories. They ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$10.00
Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze. Tome XXXI, 1590
edited by Hippolyte Aubert
The year 1590 reveals the Genevan republics weaknesses. The war that everyone thought would end quickly continued. The coffers of the city and the public were empty, and their Bernese allies defected through the iniquitous treaty of Nyon. There were, however, a few rays of hope: the Genevans took Gex and the fort of Ecluse. The Bernese renounced the treaty of Nyon, and the Duke of Savoy was bogged down in Provence. Théodore de Bèze thus ...
Hardback. Price US$217.00
Frühmittelalterliche Staat - Europäische Perspektiven
by Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser
The early medieval state is a controversial topic. Differences between European research traditions as to their respective methods and interests remain. The aim of this volume is to transcend national historiographies in the field. By overcoming the legal and institutional bias of older research, new points of view can be reached. The contributions assembled here are less concerned with the terminological problem of whether early medieval ...
Paperback. Price US$120.00
Prague and Bohemia: Medieval Art, Architecture and Cultural Exchange in Central Europe
by Zoë Opacic
This volume explores one of the most creative periods in Central European history. At its core is the medieval city of Prague, which became the seat of the Luxembourg dynasty in the 14th century and was fashioned as the political and cultural capital of the Holy Roman Empire. That dramatic change in the fortunes of Prague and Bohemia from Romanesque roots to Late Gothic heyday and the religious uncertainties of the Hussite era is examined through ...
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Hardback. Price US$130.00
Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Kärnten. Teil 2: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks St. Veit an der Glan
by Friedrich Leitner
In an annotated edition of 766 catalogue entries, this volume publishes inscriptions of the central Carinthian region from the 12th century to 1650. It includes not only inscriptions conserved in the original, but also those that have only come to us as older copies, drawings or photographs. Seventeen thematically organized indices and 263 illustrations demonstrate the wide variety of the cultural and historical sources. German text. 729p, 103 ...
Hardback. Price US$119.00
Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Niederösterreich. Teil 3: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks Krems
by Andreas Zajic
The medieval and early modern epigraphic sources in the district of Krems (Lower Austria) offer an interesting glimpse into the development of a very important arena of Austrian as well as European history, namely the Wachau, the stretch of the Danube between Melk and Krems, which has been designated an UNESCO World Heritage site, the Wachau Cultural Landscape. The inscriptions reflect the self-representation of the local nobility, the ...
Hardback. Price US$119.00
Die Register Innocenz III. 10. Band, 10. Pontifikatsjahr 1207/1208. Texte und Indices
by Andrea Sommerlechner and Rainer Murauer
The tenth volume of the edition of Pope Innocent III's chancery registers, the eighth of the edition series to be published, contains 217 letters written in 1207 and 1208, most issued by the pope. These letters include a solicitation of Philip, (German) King of the Romans, as well as two French royal charters that are inserted into papal letters. Other matters being dealt with include theological, liturgical, legal and juridical questions; the ...
Paperback. Price US$248.00
The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives
edited by James Robinson, Naomi Speakman and Kate Buehler-McWilliams
The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. This new publication includes selected papers from the first international symposium on the British Museum citole, ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00
Inschriften des Landkreises Göttingen
by Sabine Wehking
Der Band umfasst die kommentierte Edition von 450 Inschriften des Landkreises Göttingen bis zum Jahr 1650. Aufgenommen sind nicht nur die im Original erhaltenen Inschriften, sondern auch diejenigen, die nur noch in älteren Abschriften oder ...
Hardback. Price US$106.00
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