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The Rose Window: Splendour and Symbol [Hardback]
Painton Cowan (Author)
Regular Price: £39.95
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780500511749
Published by : Thames and Hudson
This beautifully illustrated book is the first systematic study of the rose window, both as a feature of Gothic architecture and as an artform in its own right. After a brief overview of the history of the rose, four chapters trace the evolutio... .... Learn More -
Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain [Paperback]
Roberta Gilchrist (Author); Barney Sloane (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781901992595
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
This volume challenges previous assumptions about medieval burial through comprehensive study of excavated monastic cemeteries. Some 8000 graves are analysed from more than 70 cemeteries in England, Wales and Scotland, focusing principally on ... .... Learn More -
Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, City of London: An archaeological Reconstruction and History [Paperback]
John Schofield (Author); Richard Lea (Author)
Regular Price: £32.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781901992458
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Volume: 24
This is an archaeological, architectural and historical study of one of the largest complexes of buildings in the medieval City of London, but one which is largely unknown and of which only two fragments survive above ground today. It is the fi... .... Learn More -
Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France [Hardback]
Robert F. Berkhofer (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812237962
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
As the Middle Ages progressed the lords of France began to regulate and organise their raising of funds, rather than relying on the more traditional methods of extortion and pillage. This detailed study focuses on five large Benedictine monaste... .... Learn More -
Romanesque Art: Problems and Monuments [Hardback]
Willibald Sauerlander (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828999
Published by : Pindar Press
Two volumes collating updated versions of Professor Sauerländer's written work on Romanesque art. Subjects include: structures, problems of classification, the geography of Romanesque art, and its development in Italy and the Empire. .... Learn More -
Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting: Essays in Honour of Otto Demus [Hardback]
Thomas E. A. Dale (Editor); John Mitchell (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781899828425
Published by : Pindar Press
Romanesque mural painting was arguably the most visible field for religious images in Western churches between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Beyond its traditional justification as Bible of the illiterate mural painting demarcated the pri... .... Learn More -
Cistercian Abbey of St Mary Stratford Langthorne, Essex: Archaeological Excavations for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project [Paperback]
Bruno Barber (Author); Steve Chew (Author); T. Dyson (Author); Bill White (Author)
Regular Price: £18.95
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781901992380
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Volume: 18
The Cistercian monastery of St Mary Stratford Langthorne once stood on land south of the new Jubilee Line station at Stratford. Excavations 1973-94 recorded large parts of the monastic church, cemetery and related buildings. Topics include the ... .... Learn More -
Georgian Parish Church: Monuments to Posterity [Paperback]
Terry Friedman (Author)
Regular Price: £33.95
Special Price: £11.95
ISBN: 9780954361532
Published by : Spire Books
This is the first substantial study of Georgian church architecture for over 40 years and is full of new discoveries and surprises. It consists of an overview of major developments during the period followed by six in-depth studies of important... .... Learn More -
Excavations at the priory of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London [Paperback]
Barney Sloane (Author); Gordon Malcolm (Author)
Regular Price: £31.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781901992205
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Volume: 20
The Knights of St John, or the Knights Hospitaller, were one of the most famous Christian military orders. Their humble origins lay in helping early pilgrims at Jerusalem from the turn of the 12th century, but they developed into a true multi-... .... Learn More -
Studies in English Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Architecture Volumes I and II [Hardback]
Richard Gem (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828456
Published by : Pindar Press
These two volumes, which have been published separately, present a collection of Richard Gem's archaeological and architectural assessments of individual buildings written over the last 25 years which, together, form an overview of the develop... .... Learn More
