Medieval Europe (c. 1000 – 1500)
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The Nuremberg Tournament Book [Hardback]
Helmut Nickel (Author)
£53.00ISBN: 9782503512402
Published by : Brepols
Tournaments were the classical spectator sport of the Middle Ages. Participation was reserved for knights and in time it became a jealously guarded privilege to be considered 'turnierfahig', i.e. a member of a noble family that could prove to have... .... Learn More -
Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region [Hardback]
Mark Maltby (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781842172773
Published by : Oxbow Books
This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the... .... Learn More -
Silk for the Vikings [Paperback]
Marianne Vedeler (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £20.00
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 -
The History of Portuguese Literature in English Translation: The Medieval Galician Portuguese Lyric and the Theatre of Gil Vicente [Hardback]
Patricia Odber De Baubeta (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781905981328
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Portugal is England’s oldest ally (by the Treaty of Windsor, 1386) but only three Portuguese authors are widely known in the English-speaking world: Luís de Camões, Eça de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa. Or... .... Learn More -
The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology [Hardback]
John Carey (Editor); Emma Nic Cárthaigh (Editor); Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Editor)
Regular Price: £59.95
Special Price: £44.00
ISBN: 9781891271205
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. The medieva... .... Learn More -
City and the Coin in the Ancient and Early Medieval Worlds [Paperback]
Fernando López Sánchez (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407309972
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2402
Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This work, a collection of eleven contributions, explor... .... Learn More -
A Late Saxon Village and Medieval Manor: Excavations at Botolph Bridge, Orton Longueville, Peterborough [Paperback]
Paul Spoerry (Author); Rob Atkins (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781907588051
Published by : East Anglian Archaeology
Botolph Bridge, now within urban Peterborough, lay beside an important crossing of the River Nene and once formed part of a well-known medieval vill, referenced in Domesday Book. Botolph Bridge was noted for its well preserved med... .... Learn More -
The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives [Paperback]
James M. Robinson (Editor); Naomi Speakman (Editor); Kate Buehler-McWilliams (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780861591862
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 186
The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. This new publication includes selected papers from the first international symposium on the... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick: the Scottish Seabird centre Excavations 1999-2006 [Hardback]
Thomas Addyman (Author); Kenneth Macfadyen (Author); Tanja Romankiewicz (Author); Alasdair Ross (Author); Nicholas Uglow (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.00
ISBN: 9781842176634
Published by : Oxbow Books
Kirk Ness has long been considered likely to be an early Christian centre, whose dedication to St Andrew may perhaps be linked with the 8th century translation of the relics of St Andrew’s to Fife. Such early dating was conf... .... Learn More -
The Soldier in Later Medieval England [Hardback]
Adrian R. Bell (Author); Andy King (Author); David Simpkin (Author); Anne Curry (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780199680825
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Soldier in Later Medieval England is the outcome of a project which collects the names of every soldier known to have served the English Crown from 1369 to the loss of Gascony in 1453, the event which is traditionally accepted... .... Learn More