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The Central Middle Ages | |||
| Europe 950-1320 | History | |||
| Daniel Power | ||||
| Oxford 2006 304 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0199253129 | ||||
| Published Price £18.00 | Our Price £8.99 | |||
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry | |||
| History | ||||
| Millard Meiss | ||||
| George Braziller 2009 224 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 080761596X 290x200mm | ||||
| Published Price £65.00 | Our Price £40.00 | |||
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Agincourt | |||
| Henry V and the Battle That Made England | History | |||
| Juliet Barker | ||||
| Little, Brown and Company 2005 445 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0316015032 235x160mm | ||||
| Published Price $27.95 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
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Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from the London Marblers | |||
| History | ||||
| Sally Badham; Malcolm Norris | ||||
| Society of Antiquaries 1999 182 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0854312722 | ||||
| Published Price £27.50 | Our Price £8.99 | |||
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Persian Fire | |||
| The First World Empire and the Battle for the West | History | |||
| Tom Holland | ||||
| Abacus 2007 418 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0349117179 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| In the 5th century BCE, a superpower was determined to bring order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. This is the story of how the Greeks took on Xerxes, the seemingly invincible Persian king as, in the words of Hegel 'the interest of the whole world's history hung trembling in the balance'. | ||||
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The Sherborne Missal | |||
| History | ||||
| Janet Backhouse | ||||
| British Library 1999 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712346198 310x233mm | ||||
| Published Price £17.95 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| 'The most spectacular service book of English execution', the Sherborne Missal was commissioned for the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne around 1400. As well as portraits of the Abbot, the scribe John Whas, and the illustrator John Siferas, the wealth and variety of the manuscript's contents include illustrations on themes as diverse as armorial bearings, British native birds and the seasonal feasts. In this superbly illustrated study, Janet Backhouse explores the Missal's creation and history and assesses its importance in the history of English art. | ||||
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Music | |||
| in Medieval Manuscripts | History | |||
| Nicolas Bell | ||||
| British Library 2001 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712347062 | ||||
| Published Price £7.95 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Drawing on the broad range of musical sources in The British Library, with reproductions of both musical notation and miniatures and illuminations showing instruments and musicians, Nicolas Bell traces the history of music writing and performance from the earliest times to the 15th century. | ||||
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The Murthly Hours | |||
| Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West | History | |||
| John Higgitt | ||||
| British Library 2000 362 pages | ||||
| HB + CD-ROM Illustrated 0712346392 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Our Price £16.99 | |||
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Monsters and Grotesques | |||
| in Medieval Manuscripts | History | |||
| Alixe Bovey | ||||
| British Library 2002 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712347453 | ||||
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| Dragons, griffins, sciopods and blemmyae... medieval illuminated manuscripts teem with weird creatures decorating margins or squeezing into spaces at the ends of lines. Alixe Bovey describes the origins and symbolism of these monsters and hybrids in a study that offers a special insight into the medieval imagination. | ||||
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Medieval Warfare | |||
| in Manuscripts | History | |||
| Pamela Porter | ||||
| British Library 2000 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712346627 | ||||
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| In chapters on the art of war, knights, chivalry and training for war, arms and armour, armies and battle, castles and sieges, this study looks at how warfare was depicted in medieval manuscripts and reveals a wealth of social and historical background. A final chapter examines how gunpowder transformed medieval warfare after the mid 1320s. | ||||
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Medieval Herbals | |||
| The Illustrative Traditions | History | |||
| Minta Collins | ||||
| British Library 2000 334 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712346384 | ||||
| Published Price £45.00 | Our Price £16.99 | |||
| The illustrated Herbal is 'one of the rare types of manuscript with an almost continuous line of descent from the time of the ancient Greeks to the end of the middle ages'. Here, Minta Collins presents a detailed art-historical study of illuminated medieval Herbals produced over a wide area in the period 512 CE to 1450. She traces illustrative traditions in chapters on Greek, Arabic and Latin herbals and looks in depth at the new kind of treatise, the Tractatus de herbis, which first appeared c 1300. | ||||
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The English Medieval Book | |||
| Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths | History | |||
| ASG Edwards; Vincent Gillespie; Ralph Hanna (Edited by) | ||||
| British Library 2000 263 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0712346503 | ||||
| Published Price £22.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
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The Egerton Genesis | |||
| History | ||||
| Mary Coker Joslin; Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson | ||||
| British Library 2001 316 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712346481 245x172mm | ||||
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| Montague Rhodes James, who discovered the Egerton Genesis (Egerton MS 1894) in 1919, described it as 'the most puzzling book I have ever seen', and scholars have remained perplexed by its unconventional religious iconography and peculiar Anglo-Italianate style. This first comprehensive study of the 14th century Genesis Picture Book includes | ||||
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The de Brailes Hours | |||
| Shaping the Book of Hours in Thirteenth-Century Oxford | History | |||
| Claire Donovan | ||||
| British Library 1991 216 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712301933 | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
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The Book of Cerne | |||
| Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England | History | |||
| Michelle P Brown | ||||
| British Library 1996 258 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 071230486X | ||||
| Published Price £45.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| Michelle Brown presents a full-length study of the Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library MS L1.1.10), a prayer book made around 820-840 for a patron whose cultural tastes embraced Celtic, Anglo- Saxon, Carolingian, Roman and Byzantine materials. With its complex interplay of text, script and image, it offers a fascinating insight into Insular culture and is the only surviving illuminated manuscript which can be firmly attributed to the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. | ||||
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