Medieval Britain
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Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket [Hardback]
Carolyn Malone (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 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
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
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
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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 -
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler: Robert Earl of Gloucester and the Reigns of Henry I and Stephen [Hardback]
Robert B. Patterson (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780198797814
Published by : Oxford University Press
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The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c.1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. I... .... Learn More -
The Fifteenth Century XVI: Examining Identity [Hardback]
Linda Clark (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273614
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
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The vitality and diversity of research into the late medieval period are exemplified by the contents of this volume. A central theme is the medieval Church: examinations of the process of ordination; the parishioners of Dartford in Kent and the in... .... Learn More -
The Black Prince and the Grande Chevauchée of 1355 [Hardback]
Mollie M. Madden (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273560
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
On 19 September 1356 Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, and his Anglo-Gascon army defeated Jean II of France at the Battle of Poitiers. The victory was the culmination of an expedition which had begun in England in 1355, and saw the s... .... Learn More -
Annals of Dunstable Priory [Hardback]
Harriett Webster (Editor); David Preest (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781843838135
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The priory at Dunstable was founded by Henry I, and was a house of Augustinian canons; it stood in close proximity to the royal house at Dunstable, also founded by Henry I and used regularly in the twelfth century by his successors. In 1204, the h... .... Learn More -
The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries [Hardback]
Kay Brainerd Slocum (Author)
£115.00ISBN: 9781138103283
Published by : Routledge
Series: Sanctity in Global Perspective
On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout Europe, generating a widespread cult which endured until the reign of Henry VIII in th... .... Learn More
