Society & Culture

ISBN: 9781407309972
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2402
Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This work, a collection of eleven contributions, explor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781782971528
Published by : Oxbow Books
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the kin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780954405632
Published by : Holo Books
This is the story of how disputes of all kinds were managed in England between AD 1154 and the first signs of the Common Law, and 1558 when a new period started in the development of the English legal system. Primary sources, incl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198131724
Published by : Oxford University Press
Over three and a half centuries from the 880s to 1250, moneyers working in Winchester produced at the very least 24 million silver pennies. About five and a half thousand survive in national and local museums and private collections all over th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409445043
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English. The articles in the first section of the volume trace the development of monetisation ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837336
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Ou... .... 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: 9782503530659
Published by : Brepols
Series: Epitome Musical
Though he remains the overwhelming figure in music of the years around 1500, the life and work of Josquin Desprez now look entirely different than they did when the last monograph on him was published in 1965. Over the past forty years, a vast bod... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905375684
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 64
For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerou... .... Learn More