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Celtic Saints of Ireland [Paperback]
Elizabeth Rees (Author)
Regular Price: £16.99
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780752477404
Published by : The History Press
Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: an examination of the sites where these early Christians lived and worked. Archaeology, combined with... .... Learn More -
Venice: A New History [Hardback]
Thomas F. Madden (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780670025428
Published by : Viking
An accessible, yet authoritative look at the whole sweep of Venetian history, from its early medieval origins to the present day. It is the city's medieval heyday which occupies the centre of Maddern's work, as he focuses on the construction of th... .... Learn More -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
£56.00ISBN: 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 -
The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland [Paperback]
Neil Xavier O'Donoghue (Author)
Regular Price: £47.50
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780268037321
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In addition to reassessing the available texts for the liturgy of the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish church this study considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, its treatment in art and architecture, and its treatment as reflected by ... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent [Hardback]
Hana Sauer (Editor); Joanna Story (Editor)
Regular Price: £66.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780866984423
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This volume explores some aspects of the relations between Anglo-Saxon England (449 to 1066) and the Continent. They worked both ways. Continental scholars and texts came to England: among the former were Abbo of Fleury and some of King Alfred’s l... .... Learn More -
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010 [Hardback]
Jonathan Jarrett (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780861933099
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A frontier both between Christianity and Islam and between Francia and the Iberian Peninsula, the region that later became Catalonia was at the heart of the demographic and cultural expansion of the Carolingian empire between the ninth and twel... .... Learn More -
Empty Bottles of Gentilism [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780300155389
Published by : Yale University Press
This, the first of a trilogy which will examine the part played by the Middle Ages in the development of modern political thought, examines the Classical inheritance and early medieval theories of kingship and regal sacrality. Oakley argues tha... .... Learn More -
Divorce of Lothar II [Hardback]
K. Heidecker (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780801439292
Published by : Cornell University Press
The Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and development of Western notions of marriage and divorce and the separation of church and state in the context of a notorious royal divorce in late Carolingian Europe. In 857, Lothar II, king of Lo... .... Learn More -
Landscape With Two Saints [Hardback]
Lisa M. Bitel (Author)
Regular Price: £31.49
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780195336528
Published by : Oxford University Press
This intriguing book examines the multifaceted careers and cults of two fifth and sixth century saints, described by Bitel as "peripatetic, influential women responsible for building prestigious churches". Both saints had a pivotal role in the ... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxons and the North [Hardback]
Matti Kilipio (Editor); Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (Editor)
Regular Price: £39.00
Special Price: £12.95
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
