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ISBN: 9781907975165
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Journal of the British Archaeological Association
The Medieval Chantry in England is a special themed issue of Volume 164 of the Journal of the British Archaeological AssociationLearn More

ISBN: 9781906540623
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: BAA CONFERENCE TRANSACTIONS SERIES
Volume: 33
The British Archaeological Association's 2007 conference celebrated the material culture of medieval Coventry, the fourth wealthiest English city of the later middle ages. The nineteen papers collected in this volume set out to remedy the relat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789993273905
Published by : Midsea Books
The ten volumes of graduals commissioned by Philippe Villiers de L'Isle, elected Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of St John in 1521, are one of the treasures of the Co-Cathedral of St John in Valletta. Their size and their extensive and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042908765
Published by : Peeters Press
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ISBN: 9780748614974
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish socie... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503514208
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in the Early Middle Ages
Volume: 9
This study compromises the first book-length study of the murdered royal saints of Anglo-Saxon England. Many Anglo-Saxon kings and princes succumbed to murder plots and a significant proportion of them were then sanctified as martyrs of the Christ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503520773
Published by : Brepols
Series: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts
Volume: 20
This volume presents the Lives of three women of the thirteenth century, all written by contemporaries. In the late Middle Ages, almost every town in Northern Europe had its own anchoress, who would keep in touch with the citizens through a window... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503523781
Published by : Brepols
Series: Terrarum Orbis
Volume: 8
Fra Mauro's mappamundi , drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503515335
Published by : Brepols
Series: Hagiologia
Volume: 7
Based upon a corpus of nearly five hundred texts from the Southern Low Countries, this study offers a thorough analysis of the history of hagiographic discourse in the Central Middle Ages. The book opens with a theoretical discussion on the histor... .... Learn More