Archaeology
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Local, Regional and Ethnic Identities in Early Medieval Cemeteries in Bavaria [Paperback]
Susan Hakenbeck (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9788878144323
Published by : Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio
This book examines a group of early medieval cemeteries in Bavaria to draw out the ways in which local, regional and ethnic identities were expressed through funerary practice. A detailed study of grave goods, funerary dress and cemetery organi... .... Learn More -
Sites and Pots: Settlement and Economy in Southern Tuscany (AD300-900) [Paperback]
Emmanuele Vaccaro (Author)
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Adomnan of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker [Hardback]
Jonathan M. Wooding (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781846821028
Published by : Four Courts Press
Eighteen papers which discuss the life and thought of Adomnan, St Columba's great successor as abbot of Iona. Among other aspects they examine his Irish background, his role in the Easter controversy, and his attempts to regulate warfare. Many ... .... Learn More -
European Influence on Celtic Art: Patrons and Artists [Hardback]
Lloyd Laing (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781846821752
Published by : Four Courts Press
Focusing on the period c.350-1200, during which time the Celtic world was Christianised, Lloyd Laing here returns to the ongoing debates surrounding Celtic art, and provides a useful overview of the various external influences on its style, tec... .... Learn More -
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World [Hardback]
Valerie L. Garver (Author)
£32.95ISBN: 9780801447716
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and rel... .... Learn More -
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World [Paperback]
Valerie L. Garver (Author)
£17.50ISBN: 9780801477881
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and rel... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768 [Hardback]
Gregory Halfond (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789004179769
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Between the reigns of Clovis and Charlemagne (AD 511-768) at least eighty councils assembled, often on royal command, to discuss issues of concern to the episcopal and clerical attendees. Their published canons were intended to communicate ecc... .... Learn More -
Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul: Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009 [Hardback]
Guy Halsall (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9789004179998
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships between documentary history and archaeology while the su... .... Learn More -
Religion and Society in the Medieval West: 600-1200 [Hardback]
Henry Mayr-Harting (Author)
£72.50ISBN: 9780754668985
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These collected papers explore the religion of secular rulers, the religion (or relative lack of it) of bishops and churches, the religion of custodians at shrines or of recluses or artists, as well as religious phenomena such as angelic appari... .... Learn More -
Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780300155389
Published by : Yale University Press
This, the first of a trilogy which will examine the part played by the Middle Ages in the development of modern political thought, examines the Classical inheritance and early medieval theories of kingship and regal sacrality. Oakley argues tha... .... Learn More