Society & Culture
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Surveying the Domesday Book [Paperback]
Simon Keith (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427107
Published by : Windgather Press
The Domesday Book, commissioned in December 1085 by order of William The Conqueror, is generally thought to have been used to assess wealth and assets to collect taxes, and represents an incredible wealth of information on land-... .... Learn More -
Faversham in the Making: The Early Years: The Ice Ages until AD 1550 [Paperback]
Patricia Reid (Author); Michael Frohnsdorff (Author); Duncan Harrington (Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188353
Published by : Windgather Press
Well known for its later gunpowder industry and the famous Shepherd Neame brewery, Faversham’s earlier medieval history also reveals it to have been an important religious and administrative centre. The town archives possess an unusually complete ... .... Learn More -
The Wealth of England: The medieval wool trade and its political importance 1100–1600 [Hardback]
Susan Rose (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785707360
Published by : Oxbow Books
The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings t... .... Learn More -
Mother and Sons, Inc.: Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier [Hardback]
Professor Kathryn L. Reyerson (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
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ISBN: 9780812249613
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's business; to preserve that business until they w... .... Learn More -
Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced [Hardback]
Connie L. Scarborough (Author)
Regular Price: £94.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9789089648754
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge. Connie L. Scarborough shows that physical impairments wer... .... Learn More -
Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text [Paperback]
Charles Insley (Editor); Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785704970
Published by : Oxbow Books
The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave t... .... Learn More -
A Medieval Woman's Companion [Paperback]
Susan Signe Morrison (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785700798
Published by : Oxbow Books
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blaze... .... Learn More -
Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and Cultural Approaches to Health Weakness and Care [Hardback]
Christian Krotzl (Editor); K. Mustakallio (Editor)
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Special Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9781472438348
Published by : Ashgate
This volume discusses infirmitas (‘infirmity’ or ‘weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more... .... Learn More -
A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum [Paperback]
Daniel Howells (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861591985
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 198
A key publication on the British Museum’s internationally renowned Late Antique gold glass collection, this is the first publication in 50 years to offer new ideas on Late Antique gold glass, one of the most important areas in the field of ancient... .... Learn More -
Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture 1460-1492 (The Middle Ages Series) [Hardback]
Thomas Devaney (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812247138
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious tolerance. People living in frontier cities bore much of the cost of war against Granada and faced t... .... Learn More
