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Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England [Hardback]
Edward J. Kealey (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851154916
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In this lively and engaging study Edward Kealey demonstrates the revolutionary importance of the post-mill, its ingenious construction and its effect on medieval England; he also discovers that the earliest mills are half a centur... .... Learn More -
Paganism in Arthurian Romance [Hardback]
John Darrah (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851153506
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Ask anyone what are the special features of the Arthurian legend and you are likely to be told: the sword from the stone; Lancelot and Guinevere; Tristan and Yseult; Excalibur thrown into the pool after the last battle; the depar... .... Learn More -
England in the Twelfth Century [Hardback]
Daniel Williams (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780851155319
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The profound changes occuring in the wake of the Conquest are surveyed and discussed in the 16 papers from the 1988 Harlaxton Symposium by a variety of scholars. The century saw the emergence of the English nation in all its esse... .... Learn More -
St Mary's Church Deerhurst, Gloucestershire: Fieldwork, Excavations and Structural Analysis, 1971-1984 [Hardback]
Philip Rahtz (Editor); Lorna Watts (Editor)
Regular Price: £85.00
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ISBN: 9780851156873
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
St Mary's Church, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, is one of the most famous Anglo-Saxon churches in the country, incorporating much of a complete Anglo-Saxon building, with a complex pre-Conquest history of additions and alterat... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece [Paperback]
Anthony Snodgrass (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801473548
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
"The papers in this book presume to stray across the traditional boundaries with the domains of prehistorians, ancient historians, and literary critics. . . . It had been regarded as somehow out of order for Classical archaeologists to meddle with... .... Learn More -
William Morris's Kelmscott: Landscape and History [Hardback]
Tom Hassall (Author); Peter Salway (Author); Alan Crossley (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781905119134
Published by : Windgather Press
Kelmscott Manor is forever linked with the name of William Morris, pioneer conservationist and utopian socialist, designer and father of the Arts and Crafts tradition. The manor played a crucial role in shaping his thought: at the climactic mom... .... Learn More -
The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Picture in Place [Paperback]
Christopher Chippindale (Author); George Nash (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521524247
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Running as a sequel and companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art edited by Christopher Chippindale and Paul S C Taçon (1998), this current book examines rock-art through its place in the landscape. It takes the general immovability of much of t... .... Learn More -
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums [Paperback]
Cecili todeschini (Author); Peter Watson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781586484385
Published by : Perseus Press
Oxbow says: What could easily be a work of fiction, this book reveals the scandals of the murky world of the illicit trading of ancient treasures. Peter Watson has earned himself a reputation for exposing scandals of the art world and here he ... .... Learn More -
Life In Copper Age Britain [Paperback]
Julian Heath (Author)
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ISBN: 9781848687905
Published by : Amberley Publishing
This book serves as a useful and informative synthesis of recent work on the latter centuries of the third millennium BC, a dynamic period in Britain’s Prehistory, and one which is increasingly, although by no means universa... .... Learn More -
Miss Layard Excavates: the Palaeolithic site at Foxhall Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905 [Hardback]
Mark White (Author); Steven Plunkett (Author)
Regular Price: £48.00
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ISBN: 9780953541881
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
Between 1903 and 1905 Miss Nina Frances Layard conducted exemplary excavations of an outstanding Palaeolithic site on plateau gravels above Ipswich. Here, Palaeolithic humans gathered around the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving ... .... Learn More