History
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The Making and Unmaking of a Saint [Hardback]
Mathew Kuefler (Author)
Regular Price: £66.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780812245523
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early ele... .... 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
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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 -
Empty Bottles of Gentilism [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
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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
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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 -
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010 [Hardback]
Jonathan Jarrett (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
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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 -
Landscape With Two Saints [Hardback]
Lisa M. Bitel (Author)
Regular Price: £31.49
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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 -
Venetian Butrint [Paperback]
A. Crowson (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9780953555642
Published by : Butrint Foundation
In 1386 Butrint, together with the island of Corfu, was purchased by the Republic of Venice as part of the all-important trade routes through the Adriatic. This splendidly illustrated book investigates one of the most fascinating aspects of Eur... .... Learn More -
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad and the Empires of A.D. 800 [Paperback]
Jeff Sypeck (Author)
Regular Price: £10.99
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9780060797072
Published by : Harper Collins Publishers
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl--a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his empire and forever shape the destiny of Europe.... .... Learn More
