Ancient History
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Edge of Empire, Rome's Scottish Frontier: The Antonine Wall [Paperback]
David J. Breeze(Author)
$21.95ISBN: 9781839830037
Published by : Origin
Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now Northumbria and, 20 years after and over 100 miles further north than Hadrian’s Wall, built a n... .... Learn More -
Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World [Hardback]
Audrey Gouy(Editor)
Regular Price: $59.99
Special Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781789257984
Published by : Oxbow Books
Dress is at the core of dance. It adorns dancers, defines various roles and forms symbolic expressions that, for example, either bind people together or opposes them. It is a communicative tool that gives crucial information for understanding the ... .... Learn More -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals [Paperback]
Norman H. Reid(Author)
$44.95ISBN: 9781910900383
Published by : John Donald
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019
Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexp... .... Learn More -
She is But a Woman: Queenship in Scotland 1424–1463 [Paperback]
Fiona Downie(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781910900499
Published by : John Donald
She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guel... .... Learn More -
The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report. Volume I: History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery and Coins as Evidence for Dating [Hardback]
Susan W. Katsev(Editor); Laina W. Swiny(Editor)
Regular Price: $80.00
Special Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781785707520
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report
Volume: 1
The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of this ship lies in the extraordinary state of ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17 [Hardback]
Cordelia Warr(Editor); Monica Wright(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9781783275984
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
Volume: 17
The essays here take us from the twelfth century, with an exploration of an inventory of Mediterranean textiles from an Ifriqiyan Church, into an examination and reconstruction of an extant thirteenth-century sleeve in France which provides a rare... .... Learn More -
The Papers of the Elland Society, 1769-1818 [Hardback]
John Walsh(Editor); Stephen Taylor(Editor); Stephen C Taylor(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781843834441
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Church of England Record Society
Volume: 28
The Elland Society is one of the leading Evangelical clerical societies established in the eighteenth century. It provides a forum in which a group of like-minded clergymen are able to discuss matters of common interest and concern, and plays an i... .... Learn More -
A Chivalric Life: The Book of the Deeds of Messire Jacques de Lalaing [Hardback]
Rosalind Brown-Grant(Translator); Rosalind Brown-Grant(Translator); Mario Damen(Translator); Mario Damen(Translator)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783277216
Published by : Boydell Press
Jacques de Lalaing (c.1421-53) was undoubtedly the most famous knight at the court of the Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, one who was celebrated in his own lifetime for the dazzling feats of arms that he performed in jousts across Europe ... .... Learn More -
Text and Image in René d'Anjou's Livre de Tournois: Constructing Authority and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture - Three Volume set [Hardback]
Justin Sturgeon(Author)
$340.00ISBN: 9781783272693
Published by : Boydell Press
René d'Anjou's Livre des tournois is famous as the most substantial account of the organisation of a medieval tournament that has come down to us. It survives in eight manuscripts, most of which have an almost identical layout; the b... .... Learn More -
Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean, from Prehistory to Alexander the Great [Paperback]
Robert Arnott(Author)
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Special Price: $33.00
ISBN: 9781789255546
Published by : Oxbow Books
The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistor... .... Learn More
