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The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England [Hardback]
Michael Fisher (Author); A. W. N Pugin (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9781904965404
Published by : Spire Books
Pugin's writings and buildings changed the course of British architecture. The Present State , published in 1843, is significant in marking the transition from Pugin the Gothic propagandist and polemicist to Pugin the working architect and des... .... Learn More -
London's Parish Churches [Hardback]
John Leonard (Author)
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ISBN: 9781904965336
Published by : Spire Books
This is a new edition of John Leonard's popular London's Parish Churches , first published in 1997. With over 200 new colour photographs by the author, it provides both an historical account of churches in the capital from Anglo-Saxon beginnings... .... Learn More -
Celtic Curses [Hardback]
Bernard Mees (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843834571
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period... .... Learn More -
Chaucer Yearbook Volume 2: 1995 [Hardback]
Michael Salda (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
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ISBN: 9780859914659
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This `Journal of Late Medieval Studies' is devoted to the critical examination of British literature written between 1350 and 1500. Contributors include: P Beidler (Chaucer's request for money in the Man of Law's Prologue) ; H Chickering (Comi... .... Learn More -
Peregrinations of the Word: Essays in Medieval Philosophy [Hardback]
Louis Mackey (Author)
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ISBN: 9780472107360
Published by : University of Michigan Press
The relationship between faith and reason, religious and humanistic approaches to philosophy, is the focus of these essays on five medieval thinkers; Augustine, Anselm, Acquinas, Bonaventure and Duns Scotus. .... Learn More -
Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation [Hardback]
Adrian M. Chadwick (Editor); Catriona D. Gibson (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781782973935
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Celtic Studies Publications 17
Memory and forgetting are fundamental to human existence and experiences of the world. Within archaeology, there has been increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date, however, there has been little specific di... .... Learn More -
Silk for the Vikings [Paperback]
Marianne Vedeler (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782972150
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumptio... .... Learn More -
Central Zagros Archaeological Project: The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani [Hardback]
Roger Matthews (Editor); Wendy Matthews (Editor); Yaghoub Mohammadifar (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9781782972235
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CZAP Report
Volume: 1
Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspect... .... Learn More -
Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor [Hardback]
Colin Tudge (Author)
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ISBN: 9780316070089
Published by : Little, Brown and Company
An accessible account of the discovery and analysis of Ida, an astonishingly complete 47 million year old primate fossil, and its implications for human evolution. .... Learn More -
Charters of Abingdon Abey Part 1 [Hardback]
S. E. Kelly (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9780197262177
Published by : British Academy
Series: Anglo-Saxon Charters
Volume: 7
A corpus of 149 pre-Conquest documents from the archive at Abingdon Abbey, many of which are Latin records of grants of
lands and privileges. Many of these do not survive as intact sheets of parchment and are recorded in s... .... Learn More