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Windsor and Eton [Hardback]
David Lewis (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £34.95
ISBN: 9781782978282
Published by : Historic Towns Trust
Series: British Historic Towns Atlas
Volume: IV
This atlas is the definitive account in maps and words of the historic royal towns of Windsor and Eton. There has never been an account of the history of Eton town, and although Windsor Castle has been much studied, the last histo... .... Learn More -
Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World [Hardback]
Catherine M. Chin (Author)
Regular Price: £53.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812240351
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
This book looks at the contribution of the grammarian to the creation of a distinctively Christian classical culture and to promoting theological ideas and milleux. The grammarian taught latin language and literature, and were particularly conc... .... Learn More -
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 [Hardback]
Dyan Elliott (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812243581
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly mod... .... Learn More -
Digging for Richard III [Hardback]
Mike Pitts (Author)
Regular Price: £18.95
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780500252000
Published by : Thames and Hudson
The events of Richard IIIs reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeares most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how... .... Learn More -
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist [Hardback]
Tim Murray (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781783463527
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
This volume forms a collection of papers tracking the emergence of the history of archaeology from a subject of marginal status in the 1980s to the mainstream subject which it is today. Professor Timothy Murray's essays have been widely cited and ... .... Learn More -
Singing The New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England [Hardback]
Katherine Zieman (Author)
Regular Price: £46.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812240511
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Many studies of literacy and liturgy in the late medieval period examine the rise of the vernacular and the shift from orality and the performance of sacred texts to personal reading of written texts. However, this study empahsises the continue... .... Learn More -
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet [Hardback]
Philip Freeman (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780393242232
Published by : W W Norton
The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient wo... .... Learn More -
Luxury: A Rich History [Hardback]
Peter McNeil (Author); Giorgio Riello (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780199663248
Published by : Oxford University Press
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headli... .... Learn More -
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum, Volume One [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781555953553
Published by : Hudson Hill Press
This hefty and beautifully produced catalogue presents 595 objects and fragments with scratch-engraved and wheel-cut ornament made in the Islamic world between the eighth and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour with... .... Learn More -
Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe [Paperback]
Edward Peters (Editor)
Regular Price: £19.00
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780812211030
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
This collection brings together some of the most important texts for the study of heresy and heterodoxy as well as the measures taken by the church to combat it. An initial chapter surveys the patristic background for the concept ... .... Learn More
