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Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Mark Brennand (Author); Jacqui Mulville (Author); Helen Smith (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.75
ISBN: 9781785708510
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 7
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Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine p... .... Learn More -
Her Father's Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms [Hardback]
Lucy K. Pick (Author)
£51.95ISBN: 9781501714320
Published by : Cornell University Press
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In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the ear... .... Learn More -
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age [Hardback]
Max Adams (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781784080303
Published by : Head of Zeus
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In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Vik... .... Learn More -
At the End of Great Moravia: Skeletons from the Second Church Cemetery at Pohansko-Břeclav (9th–10th Century A.D.) [Paperback]
Vladimir Sladek (Author); Jiri Machacek (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407315768
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2836
This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Břeclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of Pohansko and represents one o... .... Learn More -
The Plow, the Pen and the Sword: Images and Self-Images of Medieval People in the Low Countries [Hardback]
Rudi Kunzel (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9781472442109
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
Volume: 12
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This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showi... .... Learn More -
The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850: An Archaeological Perspective [Hardback]
Carlos Terejizo (Author); Isaac Sastre De Diego (Author); Javier Martinez Jimenez (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9789089647771
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
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The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological ... .... Learn More -
Frisians and their NorthSea Neighbours: From the Fifth Century to the Viking Age [Hardback]
John Hines (Editor); Nelleke Ijssennagger (Editor)
Regular Price: £100.00
Special Price: £80.00
ISBN: 9781783271795
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These wer... .... Learn More -
The Key to the Brescia Casket: Typology and the Early Christian Imagination [Hardback]
Catherine Brown Tkacz (Author)
£103.00ISBN: 9780268160449
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Series: Christianity & Judaism in Anitquity
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The elusive rationale for the Brescia Casket, an ivory reliquary carved in northern Italy ca. 390, has long tantalized scholars. In The Key to the Brescia Casket, Dr. Catherine Brown Tkacz reveals that the secret to its meaning lies in exegetical ... .... Learn More -
Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy [Hardback]
Andrew J. Romig (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780812249248
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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 ... .... Learn More
Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World [Hardback]
Massimiliano Vitiello (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780812249477
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
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In this book, Massimiliano Vitiello situates the life and career of the Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha (c. 494/5-535), daughter of Theoderic the Great, in the context of the transitional time, after the fall of Rome, during which new dynastic regi... .... Learn More
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