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English Maps: A History
by Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J P Kain
This beautifully illustrated history places maps firmly within their social, political and economic context and demonstrates how they developed over the centuries. The authors explore the interaction between maps and English history from c.700 AD until ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £25.00
Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Jerry Stannard
A collection of reprinted articles by the late Jerry Stannard and edited by Katherine E Stannard and Richard Kay, this book contains a vast amount of gathered information on the history of botany, from Homer to Linnaeus. Essays are given on medieval ...
Hardback. Price GB £62.50
The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages
by Y Tzvi Langermann
Ten studies dealing with the history of sciences within medieval Jewish communities. The collection begins with a study of science in Iberia and continues with papers on specific Jewish thinkers, including those in medieval Poland. The book concludes with ...
Hardback. Price GB £62.50
Pristina Medicamenta
by Jerry Stannard
Over 34 years of research and publications by Jerry Stannard have undertaken the formidable task of piecing together and interpreting evidence from Greek, Latin and Medieval documentation, on medical and pharmaceutical practices. He teaches us not to ...
Hardback. Price GB £62.50
The Conquest of the North Atlantic
by G J Marcus
A history of seamanship, discovery and the development of technology. Marcus looks at the earliest known voyages by Irish clerics in currachs, examining their boats, their navigational techniques and the discovery of Iceland. He then traces the journeys ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
Géographie et culture. La représentation de l'espace du VIe au XIIe siècle
by Patrick Gautier Dalché
Twelve articles examining aspects of geography from late antiquity and the Carolingian world into the middle ages. There are particular studies of Isidore of Seville; the representation of space in the ninth century; geographical description at ...
Hardback. Price GB £67.50
Medieval Farming and Technology
edited by Grenville Astill and John Langdon
These thirteen papers discuss the impact of technology and social change on farming in Scandinavia, Britain, Northern Germanu, the Low Countries, and Northern France from 600 AD to the 17th century. Includes: The development of farming implements betweem ...
Hardback. Price GB £102.00
Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills and Mines
edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith and Michael Wolfe
Ten essays focusing on technology and resources in the Medeival period, especially those linked to building and architecture, agriculture, weaponry and the provisioning of water. Contents: Technological innovation in High Gothic architecture (Robert ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy
by Roger French and Andrew Cunningham
This book investigates the origin of two versions of the medieval discipline of `natural philosophy', those created by two of the Orders of Friars, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, in the early 13th century. 298p (Scolar 1996)
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Europaische Technik im Mittelalter 800-1400
edited by Uta Lindgren
A massive survey of engineering techniques and manufacturing crafts in the Middle Ages; it is properly subtitled a handbook, for its range is vast. There are chapters on building techniques (9) in wood and stone, their tools, technical drawing, ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.50
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