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The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Hardback]
Frances B. Titchener (Author)
Regular Price: £43.95
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ISBN: 9780520210295
Published by : University of California Press
This book seeks to study 'the interaction between human life and the literary and plastic arts'. The sixteen contributors to this book not only cite examples of this interaction, but study the influence of art on life and society, and vice vers... .... Learn More -
Ancient History [Paperback]
George Rawlinson (Author)
Regular Price: £9.99
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ISBN: 9780760773581
Published by : Barnes & Noble
Originally published in 1869 this book is full of the spirit of the heroic age of archaeology, and was written to make the recent discoveries in Egypt and the Near East available to a wider audience. Accordingly the book does not subordinate th... .... Learn More -
Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens [Paperback]
Robert Garland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715634486
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and ... .... Learn More -
Fashionable Encounters: Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World [Hardback]
Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Maj Ringgaard (Editor); Kirsten Toftegaard (Editor); Mikkel Venborg Pederson (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781782973829
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic w... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Traveller [Paperback]
Norbert Ohler (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
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ISBN: 9781843835073
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book makes an extensive examination of how and why people travelled in the period AD 500 to 1500. In the first part of the book Ohler looks at the background and conditions to travel - such as climate, land, river and sea journies, religio... .... Learn More -
Metal Detecting and Archaeology [Hardback]
Peter Stone (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843834151
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The invention of metal detecting technology during the Second World War allowed the development of a hobby that has traditionally been vilified by archaeologists as an uncontrollable threat to the proper study of the past. This book charts the... .... Learn More -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 [Hardback]
Robin Netherton (Author); Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
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ISBN: 9781843834519
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The fifth volume of this annual series features several articles examining the interaction of medieval romance with textiles and clothing. French Gothic ivory carvings illustrating courtly romances reveal details of fashionable dress; the dist... .... Learn More -
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales: Life, Death and Commemoration [Hardback]
Steven Gunn (Author); Linda Monckton (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
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ISBN: 9781843834809
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Prince Arthur (1486-1502), son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was the great hope of early Tudor England. Today he is largely forgotten, remembered only as Henry VIII's shadowy elder brother, the first husband of Katherine of Aragon. But in... .... Learn More -
Dating Undated Medieval Charters [Hardback]
M. Gervers (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9780851157924
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The vast majority of charters from the 12th and 13th centuries were issued without dates, something which did not become a formality until the early 14th century. An international conference held in Budapest in 1999 sought to discuss possible ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis: Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts [Hardback]
Emma Hornby (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781843834717
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are addressed here through a case study of the s... .... Learn More