Art & Architecture
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Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe [Hardback]
Ethan Matt Kavaler (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780300167924
Published by : Yale University Press
The years after 1500 brought the construction of several iconic Late Gothic monuments, including the transept facades of Beauvais cathedral in northern France, much of King's College in Cambridge, England, and the parish church at Annaberg in S... .... Learn More -
Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes [Hardback]
Ellen F. Arnold (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 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 -
Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena [Hardback]
Timothy B. Smith (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 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 -
The Bayeux Tapestry: Collected Papers [Hardback]
Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 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 -
English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Elizabeth Makowski (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 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 -
The Medieval Monastery [Paperback]
Roger Rosewell (Author)
£6.99ISBN: 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 -
The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540 [Paperback]
Julian Luxford (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 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 -
Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology [Paperback]
Colin Breen (Author)
£17.50ISBN: 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 -
Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 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 -
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England [Paperback]
Stephen Hart (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 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

