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Georgian Cookery: Recipes and History
by Jennifer Stead
Contains over 50 recipes from the 18th century - all of which can be reproduced in the modern kitchen. The recipes include dishes such as Oyster Loaves, Beetroot Pancakes, Jugged Pigeons and Strawberry Fritters. The book also describes the historical background and has information on food, cooking equipment, the serving of meals and the development of taste and etiquette. As well as looking at what people ate in Georgian England, it explains how ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$12.95, Our Price US$4.98

The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
edited by Katariina Mustakallio and Christian Laes
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs.

The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who were unable to bring up their baby and handed it over to other people or the cruel whims ...
Paperback. Price US$56.00

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage: Journey, Spirituality and Daily Life through the Centuries
edited by Dee Dyas
This easy-to-use, highly visual, interactive CD-Rom explores the theme of Pilgrimage through literature, history, art and architecture, maps, social anthropology, classical religion, major world religions, the Bible and Christian tradition, tourism, and accounts of pilgrims past and present.

Sections:
Introduction (What is Pilgrimage?; Place & Journey in Cultures and Faiths Worldwide; Pilgrimage & Social Anthropology)
Pilgrimage ...
CD/CDRom. Price US$24.95

Rechtsidee und Bild: Zur Funktion und Ikonografie der Bilder in Rechtsbüchern vom 9. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert
by Hanna Sofia Hayduk
English summary: Illustrated legal manuscripts are a field of art-historical research that has seen little attention. This study for the first time examines illustrated manuscripts of German-Germanic law from between the 9th and 16th Centuries. The starting point is the Balthasar Behem Code, a magnificent manuscript documenting the laws of Krakow. This code, which is decorated with a series of paintings depicting everyday urban life, was ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$115.00, Our Price US$92.00

Das Hamburger Antiphonar ND VI 471: Ein wiederentdecktes Musikdenkmal aus dem 15. Jahrhundert aus dem Hamburger Dom. Einführung - Edition - Faksimile
by Viacheslav Kartsovnik, edited by Jürgen Neubacher
English summary: The antiphonary ND VI 471 was created in the 15th Century and encompasses two layers with a total of 19 pages. It possibly served as a template (exemplum) as used in, among other things, scriptoria. In particular, two songs of great artistic value, which are preserved only here, draw from this oldest and most complete extant music manuscript. Therefore,
this antiphonary is of outstanding importance for both Hamburg's ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00

Johannes Hartlieb Kräuterbuch
by Gerold Hayer, with a critical edition by Bernhard Schnell
The only fully illustrated herbal written in German before incunabula, Munich physician and scholar Johannes Hartlieb's (+ 1468) herbal book has earned a special place in the history of medieval medical literature. Hartlieb's comprehensive work, comprised of more than 170 chapters in total, stands out on account of the truly exceptional and innovative pharmaceutical illustrations which make up an integral part of the work. This premier critical ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00

The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
by Stephen Pollington
Communal meals were an important part of Anglo-Saxon society. They were enjoyed by nobles and yeomen, warriors, farmers, churchmen and laity. Some of the feasts were informal communal gatherings (gebeorscipe) while others were formal ritual gatherings (symbel).

Using the evidence of Old English texts - including the epic Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - Stephen Pollington shows that the idea of ...
Paperback. Price US$49.95

The Medieval Park: New Perspectives
edited by Robert Liddiard
The park - a feature of the landscape we always associate with the hunting of deer - played an important role in the psyche of Britain's medieval aristocracy. This well-illustrated book offers a reappraisal of the park by a new generation of landscape researchers, who use a diversity of approaches to assess its economy, ecology and social role. They show how parks actually had many functions other than deer management and hunting; they were ...
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Shaping Medieval Landscapes
Tom Williamson
To explain the rich, complex patterns in the English landscape today, we have to understand how the land was farmed in the medieval period. Some regions had large villages with extensive open fields; others had scattered hamlets and less communal forms of agriculture. These differences are still with us - in the shape of fields, the form of settlement, and the character of hedges and woods. Archaeologists, historians and geographers have long ...
Paperback. Price US$31.00

Richard III: A Royal Enigma
by Sean Cunningham
Richard III - evil monster or victim of later propaganda? This is a favourite and well-tried debate for historians. Rather than taking one side or the other, this book studies the words of the man himself. Sean Cunningham provides the historical context and comment on eighteen key documents from the National Archives that refer to the actions and deeds of Richard and those closest to him. Included among the documents are: the earliest surviving ...
Paperback. Price US$22.95