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Seals and Status: Power of Objects [Paperback]
John Cherry (Editor); Jessica Berenbeim (Editor); Lloyd de Beer (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592135
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 213
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For 7,000 years seals have functioned as signs of authority. This publication deals specifically with aspects of status in the history of seals, exploring this theme across a diverse range of cultural contexts—from the 9th century up to the Early ... .... Learn More -
From Carrickfergus to Carcassonne: The Epic Deeds of Hugh de Lacy During the Albigensian Crusade [Hardback]
Paul Duffy (Editor); Tadhg O'Keeffe (Editor); Jean-Michel Picard (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9782503567815
Published by : Brepols
Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East
Volume: 5
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Hinging upon the personal story of a charismatic individual – Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster, ‘From Carrickfergus to Carcassonne’ explores the wider interplay between the Gaelic, Angevin, Capetian and Occitan worlds in the late 12th and early 1... .... Learn More
Writing History in Medieval Poland: Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and the 'Chronica Polonorum' [Hardback]
Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski (Editor)
£64.00ISBN: 9782503569512
Published by : Brepols
Series: Cursor Mundi
Volume: 28
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This volume presents an in-depth analysis of the Chronica Polonorum, one of the greatest works of the twelfth-century renaissance which profoundly influenced history writing in Central Europe. The Chronica Polonorum was written by Poland’s fi... .... Learn More
Episcopal Power and Local Society in Medieval Europe, 1000-1400 [Hardback]
Peter Coss (Editor); Chris Dennis (Editor); Melissa Julian-Jones (Editor); Angelo Silvestri (Editor)
£68.00ISBN: 9782503573403
Published by : Brepols
Series: Medieval Church Studies
Volume: 38
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The medieval bishop occupied a position of central importance in European society between 1000 and 1400. Indeed, medieval bishops across Europe were involved in an assortment of ecclesiastical and secular affairs, a feature of the episcopal o... .... Learn More
Curia and Crusade: Pope Honorius III and the Recovery of the Holy Land: 1216-27 [Hardback]
Thomas W Smith (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9782503552972
Published by : Brepols
Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East
Volume: 6
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The pontificate of Honorius III (1216–27) ranks among the most important papal reigns of the thirteenth century: the pope organised two large-scale crusades to recover the Holy Land, the second of which recovered Jerusalem for the first since... .... Learn More
A Companion to Sardinian History, 500-1500 [Hardback]
Michelle Hobart (Editor)
£227.00ISBN: 9789004341234
Published by : Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Volume: 11
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The first English-language survey of medieval and modern Sardinia, this volume offers access to long-awaited European scholarship on a critical missing link in the Mediterranean. Based on new archaeological fieldwork and current research from a va... .... Learn More
From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages [Paperback]
William Chester Jordan (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780691176147
Published by : Princeton University Press
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile--or abjuration--flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corpora... .... Learn More
Lombard Legacy: Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Italy [Hardback]
John Mitchell (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597346
Published by : Pindar Press
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Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of the ways in ... .... Learn More
The Middle Ages [Paperback]
Johannes Fried (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780674975361
Published by : Harvard University Press
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished... .... Learn More
An Introduction to the Crusades [Hardback]
S. J. Allen (Author)
£37.99ISBN: 9781442600249
Published by : University of Toronto Press
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An Introduction to the Crusades is the perfect guide to a very complex historical period. It begins with a brief overview of the Crusades before immersing the reader in the logistics of crusading and the day-to-day life of a crusader, explaining a... .... Learn MoreORDER ENQUIRIES: Tel: +44 (0)1226 734350 Fax: +44 (0)1226 734438 Oxbow Books, 47 Church St., Barnsley, S70 2AS GENERAL ENQUIRIES: Tel: +44 (0)1865 241249 Fax: +44 (0)1865 794449 Oxbow Books, The Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road, OX4 1JE © 2012 Oxbow Books. All Rights Reserved.
