Architecture
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St Stephen's College, Westminster: A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348-1548 [Hardback]
Elizabeth Biggs(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274956
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: 50
In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and state met and collaborated for two centuries, from its foundation to pray for the royal dead... .... Learn More -
Designing Norman Sicily: Material Culture and Society [Hardback]
Emily A. Winkler(Editor); Liam Fitzgerald(Editor); Andrew Small(Editor); Alessandra Molinari(Contributor); Emily A. Winkler(Contributor)
$75.00ISBN: 9781783274895
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: 18
Material culture played a crucial role in developing the cultural narrative of Norman Sicily. The essays in this book consider how images, designs, artifacts, structures and objects were used to help create the story of the medieval kingdom, and w... .... Learn More -
Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora [Hardback]
Sylvie Dumont(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780876619698
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so... .... Learn More -
Inspired by the East: How the Islamic world influenced Western art [Hardback]
William Greenwood(Editor); Lucien de Guise(Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9780714111933
Published by : British Museum
The West has long had a fascination with the art and culture of the ‘Orient’. Covering a period from the late fifteenth century to the present day Inspired by the East sheds light on the complex cultural exchange between these c... .... Learn More -
Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften: Eine Studie zur Entwicklung und Funktion von Burgen im südlichen Jütland (1232–1443) [Paperback]
Dr Stefan Magnussen(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088908675
Published by : Sidestone Press
Deutch:
In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch während dies in zahlreichen Regionen hinreichend Beachtung findet, wurde das südliche Jütland bislang weder von der R... .... Learn More -
Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften: Eine Studie zur Entwicklung und Funktion von Burgen im südlichen Jütland (1232–1443) [Hardback]
Dr Stefan Magnussen(Author)
$245.00ISBN: 9789088908682
Published by : Sidestone Press
Deutch:
In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch während dies in zahlreichen Regionen hinreichend Beachtung findet, wurde das südliche Jütland bislang weder von der R... .... Learn More -
The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester [Paperback]
Carolyn Heighway(Author); Richard Bryant(Author)
$39.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254143
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the cas... .... Learn More -
Excavations at Oxford Castle 1999-2009 [Hardback]
Julian Munby(Author); Andrew Norton(Author); Daniel Poore(Author); Anne Dodd(Author)
$37.95ISBN: 9781905905454
Published by : Oxford University School of Archaeology
Series: Thames Valley LandscapesMonograph
Volume: 44
Oxford Castle was built in 1071 at the west end of the thriving late Saxon town. Although it was never a castle of the first rank as a royal or seigneurial stronghold, it was an active county castle throughout the medieval period. Largely abandone... .... Learn More -
The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell(Author); David S. Neal(Author)
$99.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252347
Published by : Oxbow Books
Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; ... .... Learn More -
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists [Paperback]
David Burke(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783274703
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: History of British Intelligence
Volume: 3
The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London was the haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came... .... Learn More
