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Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus [Hardback]
Alexander O'Hara (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780190858001
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa at the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbi... .... Learn More -
Religion, Politics and the Arts in Early Medieval Italy: Iconophilia [Hardback]
Francesca Dell'Acqua (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780415793728
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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Through case studies examined in a comparative East-West approach, this book analyses how Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 720s-843) impacted on the West and how it shaped a papal reaction in Rome. The policy on the production and veneration of sacred im... .... Learn More -
Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe [Hardback]
Alexander O'Hara (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780190857967
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions bec... .... Learn More -
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching [Paperback]
David Rollason (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781138936874
Published by : Routledge
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Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate this complex period. David Rollason identifies the major research questions and historiographical debates and offers guidance on how to en... .... Learn More -
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching [Hardback]
David Rollason (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9781138936867
Published by : Routledge
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate this complex period. David Rollason identifies the major research questions and historiographical debates and offers guidance on how to en... .... 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)
£75.00ISBN: 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 -
The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages [Hardback]
Sven Meeder (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781350038677
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully wri... .... Learn More -
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation [Hardback]
Nathan Ristuccia (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780198810209
Published by : Oxford University Press
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses schol... .... Learn More -
The Age of Affirmation: Venice, the Adriatic and the Hinterland Between the 9th and 10th Centuries [Paperback]
Stefano Gasparri (Editor); Sauro Gelichi (Editor)
£94.00ISBN: 9782503579252
Published by : Brepols
Series: Seminari del Centro Interuniversitario Per La Storia E L'Arc
Volume: 8
This volume refers to the "age of consolidation" of Venice in the 9th and 10th centuries. All the twelve papers of the volume consider a Venetian reality as already formed, even in its early days; a social, economic and political communi... .... Learn More -
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent [Paperback]
Alessandro Barbero (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780520297210
Published by : University of California Press
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great--Charlemagne--reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At... .... Learn More
