Art & Architecture
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Tiny Churches [Hardback]
Dixe Wills (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9780749577681
Published by : AA Publishing
While travelling all over Britain on his push bike, non-flying travel writer Dixe Wills is forever popping into old churches to look around, grab a moment of tranquility or just to shelter from the elements. Extending his love of all things tiny i... .... Learn More -
The Age of Opus Anglicanum [Hardback]
Michael A Michael (Editor)
£93.50ISBN: 9781909400412
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in English Medieval Embroidery
Volume: 1
This volume, the first to appear in a series of Studies in English Medieval Embroidery, contains the papers delivered at a Symposium held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in February 2013, which was designed to re-vitalize research and ... .... Learn More -
Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections [Hardback]
Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Editor); William P. Stoneman (Editor); Anne-Marie Eze (Editor); Lisa Fagin (Editor); Nancy Netzer (Editor)
£59.50ISBN: 9781892850263
Published by : Yale University Press
Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institut... .... Learn More -
The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary [Hardback]
Bela Zsolt Szakacs (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9789637326257
Published by : Central European University Press
The manuscript known as the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, made for Hungarian royal patrons, is an extraordinary relic of medieval book illumination; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler. It was created in Bologna in the early 14th century by number ... .... Learn More -
Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe: Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context [Paperback]
Gerardo Boto Varela (Editor); J. E. A. Kroesen (Editor)
£80.00ISBN: 9782503552507
Published by : Brepols
This volume explores the architecture and layout of Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, especially around the Mediterranean, paying special attention to liturgical ritual, church furnishings, iconography, and urban context.
This vo... .... Learn More -
Art in England: The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 [Hardback]
Sara N. James (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781785702235
Published by : Oxbow Books
Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign... .... Learn More -
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion [Hardback]
John Munns (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781783271269
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to the cross and th... .... Learn More
The North Transept of Reims Cathedral [Hardback]
Jennifer M. Feltman (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9781472462466
Published by : Ashgate
This interdisciplinary volume in the AVISTA series is the first book to focus solely on the north transept of Reims Cathedral, the portion of the gothic building that served as the canons’ primary entrance to the cathedral from their adjoining clo... .... Learn More
Painting the Hortus Deliciarum: Medieval Women Wisdom and Time [Hardback]
Danielle Joyner (Author)
£63.95ISBN: 9780271070889
Published by : Penn State University Press
Between 1170 and 1190 in Alsace, Abbess Herrad compiled for her canonesses an elaborate manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, which combined resplendent images with quotations from more than fifty texts to portray a history of the Christian church ac... .... Learn More
Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry [Hardback]
Anna Henderson (Editor); Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780719095351
Published by : Manchester University Press
his book aims to make sense of the Bayeux tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer. How did the embroiderers organise the stitching of the Bayeux tapestry? Are its limited... .... Learn More
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