Medieval Europe
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The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds and Documents, c. 1190 to c. 1666 [Hardback]
Lisa Jefferson(Editor); Lisa Jefferson(Translator)
$575.00ISBN: 9781783276240
Published by : Boydell Press
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company, is one of the twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London. This three-volume edition provides translations of the company's Register of Deeds with full explic... .... Learn More -
Foundation Documents from St Mary's Abbey, York: 1085-1137 [Hardback]
Richard Sharpe(Editor); David Crouch(Editor); Janet Burton(Contributor); Michael Gullick(Contributor); Nicholas Karn(Contributor)
$75.00ISBN: 9780854440849
Published by : Surtees Society
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
Volume: 227
In the wake of the Conqueror's ravaging of the North in the course of the rebellion and Danish invasion of 1069-70 the devastated city of York had to be largely rebuilt. The Conqueror himself contributed a major new abbey built in the west of the ... .... Learn More -
Fourteenth Century England XII [Hardback]
James Bothwell(Editor); Jeffrey S. J.S. Hamilton(Editor); Paul Dryburgh(Contributor); Pierre Gaite(Contributor); Christopher Given-Wilson(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783277193
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Fourteenth Century England
Volume: 12
The essays presented here draw on a number of different approaches and perspectives to address and illuminate key aspects and issues of the period. Longitudinal studies of king's confessors and corrodies of the crown provide insights into the inte... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021 [Hardback]
Stephen D Church(Editor); Michael Bintley(Contributor); Alan Cooper(Contributor); Amy Devenney(Contributor); Lindy Grant(Contributor)
$90.00ISBN: 9781783277131
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Anglo-Norman Studies
Volume: 44
The essays collected here demonstrate the rich vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular focus on the interrelations between the various parts of north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there are deta... .... Learn More -
Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War [Paperback]
Philip Caudrey(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783276950
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Warfare in History
Volume: 46
The highest and most sovereign things a knight ought to guard in defence of his estate are his troth and his arms. So declared Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton, before the Court of Chivalry, eloquently encapsulating the fundamental role heraldic ide... .... Learn More -
Constructing History across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c.1050--c.1150 [Hardback]
Francesca Tinti(Editor); David A. Woodman(Editor); David A. Woodman(Contributor); Jonathan Jonathan Herold(Contributor); Carl Philipp Nothaft(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781914049040
Published by : York Medieval Press
Series: Writing History in the Middle Ages
Volume: 9
From the mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of ... .... Learn More -
Monks Eleigh Manorial Records, 1210-1683 [Hardback]
Vivienne Aldous(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783276790
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Volume: 65
The manor was one of the principal units of medieval administration, providing a legal framework for land tenure, the prosecution of crimes and misdemeanours and social control. For the lord of a manor it was a source of supplies and income for th... .... Learn More -
Runes: a Handbook [Paperback]
Michael P. Barnes(Author)
$26.95ISBN: 9781783276974
Published by : Boydell Press
Runes, often considered magical symbols of mystery and power, are in fact an alphabetic form of writing. Derived from one or more Mediterranean prototypes, they were used by Germanic peoples to write different kinds of Germanic language, principal... .... Learn More -
The Tournaments at Le Hem and Chauvency: Sarrasin: The Romance of Le Hem; Jacques Bretel: The Tournament at Chauvency [Paperback]
Nigel Bryant(Translator); Nigel Bryant(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783277100
Published by : Boydell Press
The Romance of Le Hem and The Tournament at Chauvency are eyewitness accounts of the famous tournaments held in 1278 at Le Hem on the banks of the Somme in north-eastern France, and in 1285 at Chauvency in Lorraine.
Written within weeks of the... .... Learn More -
The Song of Bertrand du Guesclin [Paperback]
Nigel Bryant(Translator); Cuvelier(Translator); Nigel Bryant(Author); Cuvelier(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783276967
Published by : Boydell Press
Bertrand du Guesclin is one of the great French heroes of the Hundred Years War, his story every bit as remarkable as Joan of Arc's. The son of a minor Breton noble, he rose in the 1360s and '70s to become the Constable of France- a supreme milita... .... Learn More
