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Constantine the Emperor [Paperback]
David Potter (Author)
Regular Price: £14.99
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ISBN: 9780190231620
Published by : Oxford University Press
No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography arg... .... Learn More -
Kings Queens and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France [Hardback]
Martha Wolff (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9780300170252
Published by : Yale University Press
This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emer... .... Learn More -
Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean [Hardback]
Guy D. Middleton (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254259
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse. A critical period in the long history of the region and its people and culture, they witnessed the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, with ... .... Learn More -
My Life as a Replica: St John's Cross Iona [Paperback]
Sally Foster (Author); Sian Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188599
Published by : Windgather Press
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This interdisciplinary study offers the first major composite cultural biography of an original and its copies, the St John’s Cross on Iona. The cultural biographical approach, with its focus on networks of relationships between things, people and... .... Learn More -
Butrint 7: Beyond Butrint [Hardback]
Richard Hodges (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254334
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 7
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This volume brings together a collection of reports and essays pertaining to the Butrint Foundation project at Butrint, Albania. It includes unpublished archive reports discovered in Rome and Tirana, commentaries on their methodology and history, ... .... Learn More -
The Competition of Fibers: Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000–500 BCE) [Paperback]
Wolfram Schier (Editor); Susan Pollock (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254297
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 36
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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles... .... Learn More -
Egyptian Games and Sports [Paperback]
Joyce A. Tyldesley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780747806615
Published by : Shire Publications
The Ancient Egyptians enjoyed a wide range of sports and games young men chased lions and ostriches across the desert, while dignified married couples relaxed over a game of senet. Children played with balls and dolls. Even the Egyptian kings ... .... Learn More -
Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods: An examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age graves in England [Hardback]
John Hunter (Author); Ann Woodward (Author)
Regular Price: £90.00
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ISBN: 9781782976943
Published by : Oxbow Books
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and... .... Learn More -
Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot [Hardback]
Frank Brandsma (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843842576
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Thematically and as a narrative technique, interlace, the complex weaving together of many different story-telling strands, comes to its full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. The Grail appears on the horizon and alth... .... Learn More -
Dante in Love [Hardback]
A.N. Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781848879492
Published by : Atlantic Books
A.N. Wilson's book serves as a fine introduction to Dante, mixing biography with a detailed exposition of the political and literary background to his work, as well as discussion of its principal themes, and a look at his reputation and influence ... .... Learn More
