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Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns [Paperback]
Stephen P. Ashby (Editor); Søren Sindbaek (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781789251609
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized craft... .... Learn More -
Magic, Metallurgy and Imagination in Medieval Ireland: Three Studies [Paperback]
John Carey (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9781891271281
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 21
This book is a study of the rich and fascinating traditions found early Irish literature concerning smiths and the fashioning of metal. The smith had a special status within the traditional societies of early Ireland and elsewhere in the Celtic-sp... .... Learn More -
The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Carolingian Milan [Hardback]
Ross Balzaretti (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9782503509778
Published by : Brepols
This book provides a history of early medieval Milan that incorporates the as-yet underestimated role of the city's Benedictine monastery. This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and ... .... Learn More -
Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium [Paperback]
John Howe (Author)
Regular Price: £23.99
Special Price: £17.00
ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure... .... Learn More -
Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Archaeological Approaches and Issues [Hardback]
Pilar Diarte-Blasco (Editor); Neil Christie (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781789250343
Published by : Oxbow Books
In this volume of papers, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes – both urban and rural – across Late Antiquity and the E... .... Learn More -
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Mark Brennand (Author); Jacqui Mulville (Author); Helen Smith (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781785708510
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 7
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 -
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Brandon Hawk (Author)
Regular Price: £44.99
Special Price: £34.00
ISBN: 9781487503055
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence an... .... Learn More -
Writing the Early Medieval West [Hardback]
Elina Screen (Editor); Charles West (Editor)
Regular Price: £75.00
Special Price: £50.00
ISBN: 9781107198395
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representi... .... Learn More -
A History of Muslim Sicily [Paperback]
Leonard Chiarelli (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9789993276456
Published by : Midsea Books
The book, now in it’s second revised edition, covers the period of Muslim Arab rule on the island from A.D. 827 to the Norman conquest in A.D. 1070. It is the first detailed study in English covering the various aspects of this 243-year period. It... .... Learn More -
Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Its Reception in the Early Middle Ages: Proceedings from the Third International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 16-18 July, 2010 [Paperback]
Daibhi O Croinin (Editor)
Regular Price: £75.00
Special Price: £55.00
ISBN: 9782503577098
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae
Volume: 26
Late antique and early medieval science is commonly defined by the quadrivium, the four subjects of the seven liberal arts relating to natural science: astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, and music. The seven-fold division of learning was designed in... .... Learn More
