Archaeology
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At the End of Great Moravia: Skeletons from the Second Church Cemetery at Pohansko-Břeclav (9th–10th Century A.D.) [Paperback]
Vladimir Sladek (Author); Jiri Machacek (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407315768
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2836
This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Břeclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of Pohansko and represents one o... .... Learn More -
Power and Exploitation in the Czech Lands in the 10th - 12th Centuries: A Central European Perspective [Hardback]
Tomas Petracek (Author)
Regular Price: £141.00
Special Price: £140.00
ISBN: 9789004284883
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 40
Power and Exploitation in the Czech Lands in the 10th-12th Centuries: A Central European Perspective offers a unique analysis of the history of early medieval Czech society. It draws new attention to the role of serfdom and slavery in the early pe... .... Learn More -
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art [Hardback]
Benjamin Anderson (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780300219166
Published by : Yale University Press
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their ... .... Learn More -
The Burial Dress of the Rus' in the Upper Volga Region (Late 10th-13th Centuries) [Hardback]
Iuliia Stepanova (Author)
£136.00ISBN: 9789004314658
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 43
This book is devoted to the Old Rus' dress of the Upper Volga area, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites. The organic remains of dress and metal and glass ornaments and fasteners are considered. Issues such as the social... .... Learn More -
Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book [Hardback]
Michelle Brown (Editor); Ildar H. Garipzanov (Editor); Benjamin C. Tilghman (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783272266
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The early medieval decorated book illuminates our understanding of the processes of cultural transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and from a trans-continental super-power to western and eastern nation states and revivals of empire - B... .... Learn More -
Frisians and their NorthSea Neighbours: From the Fifth Century to the Viking Age [Hardback]
John Hines (Editor); Nelleke Ijssennagger (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781783271795
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Not yet published - available for pre-order
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These wer... .... Learn More -
Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World [Hardback]
Maren Clegg Hyer (Editor); Della Hooke (Editor)
£80.00ISBN: 9781786940285
Published by : Liverpool University Press
Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples th... .... Learn More -
Fibulae uit de Lage Landen. Brooches from the Low Countries [Hardback]
Stijn Heeren (Author); Lourens van der Feijst (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9789082628500
Published by : SPA Uitgevers
This Description, Analysis and Interpretation of an Archaeological Find Category is a complete new study about Brooches.For this unique publication the authors have ... .... Learn More
Social Complexity in Early Medieval Rural Communities: The North-Western Iberia Archaeological Record [Paperback]
Juan Antonio Quiros Castillo (Editor)
Regular Price: £32.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781784915087
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This book presents an overview of the results of the research project DESPAMED funded by the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness. The aim of the book is to discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social inequality and ... .... Learn More
Pilgrimage to Heaven: Eschatology and Monastic Spirituality in Early Medieval Ireland [Paperback]
Katja Ritari (Author)
£62.00ISBN: 9782503565392
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae
Volume: 23
This book focuses on the expectation of the Judgment and the afterlife in early medieval Irish monastic spirituality. It has been claimed that in the Early Middle Ages, Christianity became for the first time a truly otherworldly religion and in mo... .... Learn More
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