Art & Architecture

ISBN: 9780812244632
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic community of Stavelot-Malmedy in the A... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409400660
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Spanning the years from 1260 to 1550 these essays look at the ways in which art was used in Siena to further political ends. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409446637
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative struc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837862
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other "men of law" wh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780747811466
Published by : Osprey
A concise, superbly illustrated guide to Britain's medieval monasteries. Rosewell provides basic information on the different monastic orders, the monastic layout and architecture, the administration of the monastery, the round of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837596
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Oxbow says: Subtitled `A Patronage History', this book examines the commissioning and financing of works of art and architecture in the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries of south-west England from 1300 to the Dissolution of the monasteries... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846823732
Published by : Four Courts Press
Dunluce Castle, dramatically positioned on cliffs that plunge straight into the sea, was for centuries at the centre of a maritime lordship encompassing north Ulster and the Western Isles of Scotland. While there is evidence of se... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904597490
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 3
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran domi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837602
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extensive variety of decorative tracery patterns, crafted in stone, that characterise the windows of medieval churches in England. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving ... .... Learn More