Medieval Britain
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British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII. Oxford [Hardback]
Alan Crossley (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9781789253269
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Historic Towns Atlases
Volume: 7
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The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical dev... .... Learn More -
Brothers York: An English Tragedy [Hardback]
Thomas Penn (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781846146909
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
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In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. It was a time when old certainties had been shredded: by popu... .... Learn More -
Llangorse Crannog: The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog [Hardback]
Alan Lane (Author); Mark Redknap (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781789253061
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates... .... Learn More -
The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
David Ditchburn (Editor); Peter Crooks (Editor); Sean Duffy (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781846826351
Published by : Four Courts Press
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In this volume, the proceedings of the 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of King Robert Bruce of Scotland), a host of experts here explore crucial aspects of Irish–S... .... Learn More -
Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket [Hardback]
Carolyn Malone (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £44.00
ISBN: 9781789252309
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the scree... .... Learn More -
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe [Paperback]
Alice E. Blackwell (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9789088907524
Published by : Sidestone Press
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This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different langu... .... Learn More -
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Alice E. Blackwell (Editor)
£90.00ISBN: 9789088907517
Published by : Sidestone Press
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This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different langu... .... Learn More -
Interpreting Medieval Effigies: The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400 [Hardback]
Brian Gittos (Author); Moira Gittos (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781789251289
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This innovative study examines and analyses the wealth of evidence provided by the monumental effigies of Yorkshire, from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including some of very high sculptural merit. More than 200 examples survive from th... .... Learn More -
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior [Hardback]
Catherine Hanley (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780300227253
Published by : Yale University Press
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A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages. Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the posit... .... Learn More -
Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century: The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) [Hardback]
Bridget Wells-Furby (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273676
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of widowhoo... .... Learn More
