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The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 [Paperback]
Barbara Crawford(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781912476817
Published by : Origin
The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island ... .... Learn More -
St. Valery: The Impossible Odds [Paperback]
Bill Innes(Editor)
$14.95ISBN: 9781912476909
Published by : Origin
The gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux (two weeks after the famous evacuation of the main British army from Dunkirk) may have burned itself into the consciousness of an older... .... 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 -
The Snettisham Hoard [Paperback]
Jody Joy(Editor); Julia Farley(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592258
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 225
For over 60 years, spectacular discoveries have been made on a wooded hillside at Snettisham, overlooking the northwest Norfolk coast, close to Hunstanton. The location of the discoveries, at Ken Hill, is known as the ‘gold field’ beca... .... Learn More -
British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford [Hardback]
Alan Crossley(Editor)
Regular Price: $90.00
Special Price: $67.50
ISBN: 9781789253269
Published by : Historic Towns Trust
Series: British Historic Towns Atlas
Volume: 7
The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical dev... .... Learn More -
Horton Kingsmead Quarry Volume 1 [Hardback]
Gareth Chaffey(Author); Alistair Barclay(Author); Ruth Pelling(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781874350668
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaeology Reports
Volume: 32
Excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire, have provided an opportunity to investigate a large multi-period site with occupation dating back over 12,000 years. The immediate landscape was one of braided river channels for much of later pr... .... Learn More -
The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455 [Paperback]
Michael Brown(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781910900413
Published by : John Donald
During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the p... .... Learn More -
Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion 1650-1660 [Paperback]
R. Scott Spurlock(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781910900437
Published by : John Donald
This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their... .... 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 Normans in Ireland: Leinster, 1167-1247 [Hardback]
Richard A. Lomas(Author)
$100.00ISBN: 9781910900338
Published by : John Donald
The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is
much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have
m... .... Learn More
