Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Early Medieval Europe (up to AD1000)
The period from AD 400 to 1000 throughout Europe, including Anglo-Saxon England, Vikings, Picts, and the early medieval Celtic world, as well as the Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian kingdoms.
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Peterborough and the Soke: Art, Architecture and Archaeology [Hardback]
Ron Baxter (Editor); Jackie Hall (Editor); Claudia Marx (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9780367173760
Published by : Routledge
Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
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The British Archaeological Association Conference held at Peterborough in 2015 provided a welcome opportunity for a new analysis of the cathedral's architecture, sculpture and artistic production, and a reassessment of the relationship between the... .... Learn More -
Peterborough and the Soke: Art, Architecture and Archaeology [Paperback]
Ron Baxter (Editor); Jackie Hall (Editor); Claudia Marx (Editor)
£29.99ISBN: 9780367173821
Published by : Routledge
Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The British Archaeological Association Conference held at Peterborough in 2015 provided a welcome opportunity for a new analysis of the cathedral's architecture, sculpture and artistic production, and a reassessment of the relationship between the... .... Learn More -
Formative Britain: The Archaeology of Britain, AD 400-1100 [Paperback]
Martin Carver (Author)
Regular Price: £26.99
Special Price: £23.50
ISBN: 9780415524759
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
Formative Britain AD 400-1100 provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that t... .... Learn More -
Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space [Hardback]
Marianne Hem Eriksen (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108497220
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, con... .... Learn More -
Image and Performance, Agency and Ideology: Representations of the Human Figure in Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, AD 400–680 [Paperback]
Lisa Brundle (Author)
£63.00ISBN: 9781407316512
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR BRITISH
Volume: 645
This book investigates the topic of human imagery and hybrid human imagery rendered on metalwork of early Anglo-Saxon date recovered within eastern England (Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Norfolk), AD 400-680. It presents the first defi... .... Learn More -
Cnut the Great [Paperback]
Timothy Bolton (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780300243185
Published by : Yale University Press
Series: The English Monarchs Series
A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of... .... Learn More -
A Raven's Battle-cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract <i>Anfuigell</i> [Hardback]
Charlene M. Eska (Editor)
£100.00ISBN: 9789004342644
Published by : Brill
Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice
Volume: 27
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In A Raven's Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provi... .... Learn More -
Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint [Hardback]
Roy Flechner (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780691184647
Published by : Princeton University Press
A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hound... .... Learn More -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]
Richard Abels (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781138808126
Published by : Routledge
Series: The Medieval World
This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Thi... .... Learn More -
God's Viking: Harald Hardrada: The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emprerors Ad998 to 1204 [Hardback]
Nic Fields (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781473823426
Published by : Pen & Sword
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of seven feet of English soil in that year of fateful change, 1066. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a warring career that spanned decades and continents. Thus, prior to forcibl... .... Learn More
