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Before the Military Revolution: European Warfare and the Rise of the Early Modern State 1300-1490 [Hardback]
Alexander Querengässer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789256697
Published by : Oxbow Books
Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all re... .... Learn More -
Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy [Hardback]
Andrew J. Romig (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
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ISBN: 9780812249248
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile produ... .... Learn More -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781902937618
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both refle... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxons and the North [Hardback]
Matti Kilipio (Editor); Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866984126
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Anglo-Saxons and the North is a wide-ranging collection of essays by acknowledged experts in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. In his reassessment of the Rök Stone, Harris reveals close links between Scandinavia and Western Europe, and Frisia in p... .... Learn More -
Venetian Butrint [Paperback]
A. Crowson (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9780953555642
Published by : Butrint Foundation
In 1386 Butrint, together with the island of Corfu, was purchased by the Republic of Venice as part of the all-important trade routes through the Adriatic. This splendidly illustrated book investigates one of the most fascinating aspects of Eur... .... Learn More -
The Name of the Saint [Hardback]
Felice Lifshitz (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268033750
Published by : Notre Dame University Press
This book presents a detailed examination of the reception and recopying of the (apocryphal) Martyrology of Saint Jerome in the Early Middle Ages. The Martyrology comprises a calendrically organised list of names of saints, and offers a rahter dif... .... Learn More -
A Celtic Florilegium7: Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir [Hardback]
Kathryn Klar (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780964244634
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 2
Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S. Patricii ( David Dumville ); Re-reading Dafydd ap Gwilym ( Patrick Ford ); The spoils of Annwn: Ta... .... Learn More -
San Vincenzo al Volturno 1: The 1980-86 Excavations, Part 1 [Paperback]
Richard Hodges (Author)
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ISBN: 9780904152241
Published by : British School at Rome
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Volume: 7
This is the first of a number of volumes describing the 1980-86 excavations at the early medieval Benedictine abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno in central Italy. This volume gives a general introduction to this important project, a description ... .... Learn More -
Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rufina and San Liberato [Paperback]
Neil Christie (Author)
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ISBN: 9780904152173
Published by : British School at Rome
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Volume: 4
The brief title doesn't really reflect the wealth of information in the three reports in this book. Arising from the British School at Rome's archaeological survey in southern Etruria between 1950 and 1975, they provide important evidence for ... .... Learn More -
Illerup Adal, Volumes 3-4: Bestandteile Und Zubehoer [Hardback]
Jorgen Ilkjaer (Author)
£62.95ISBN: 9788772885643
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
Text in German. Over a 20 year period, the excavations at Illerup in eastern Jutland have brought to light a sacrificial deposit of more than 1500 Iron Age weapons, Roman as well as Germanic. The first two volumes form part of the excavation repor... .... Learn More
