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Matter of Faith [Paperback]
James Robinson (Editor); Lloyd de Beer (Editor); Anna Harnden (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861591954
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 195
A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heaven conference at the British Museum, exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages. .... Learn More -
Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography [Hardback]
Sara Lipton (Author)
Regular Price: £22.00
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ISBN: 9780805079104
Published by : Henry Holt
The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel - the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying Jews. Yet, hateful as these depictions were, the story they tell is not as... .... Learn More -
Saturated Sensorium: Principles of Perception & Mediation in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Hans Henrik Lohfert Jorgensen (Editor); Henning Laugerud (Editor); Laura Katrine Skinnebach (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9788771243130
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The Middle Ages integrated the human senses and unified their media into a culture of saturated sensation. The saturated sensoriùm nurtured principles of perception and mediation permeated with paradox, intersensorial entanglement, and multimodal ... .... Learn More -
Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530 [Hardback]
Tim Shephard (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.99
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ISBN: 9780199936137
Published by : Oxford University Press
The private studioli of Italian rulers are among the most revealing interior spaces of the Renaissance. In them, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality in the construction of a private princely identity performed before the eyes of a... .... Learn More -
Bound Fast With Letters [Paperback]
R. H. Rouse (Author); M. A. Rouse (Author)
Regular Price: £91.50
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780268040338
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission ... .... Learn More -
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
P. H. Cullum (Editor); Katherine J. Lewis (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781843838630
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud, and moves via Ca... .... Learn More -
The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone: History, Archaeology and Conservation [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782971528
Published by : Oxbow Books
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, foll... .... Learn More -
Classical Analogy Between Speech and Music and Its Transmission in Carolingian Music Theory [Hardback]
Blair Sullivan (Author)
Regular Price: £41.00
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ISBN: 9780866984485
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This study examines the relationship between the theorization of speech and that of musical sound, beginning in antiquity and continuing through the Carolingian ninth century. In the antique sources an analogy is drawn between the elements of word... .... Learn More -
Familia and Household in the Medieval Atlantic Province [Hardback]
Benjamin T. Hudson (Editor)
Regular Price: £48.00
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ISBN: 9780866984409
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Familia and Household in the Medieval Atlantic Province is a collection of essays on the theme of family studies within the context of medieval Atlantic studies. The nine essays explore the use and importance of genealogy, the artificial family, l... .... Learn More -
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 [Hardback]
Dyan Elliott (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812243581
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and d... .... Learn More
