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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle 9780691181264
RRP: €29.75€23.30A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an... -
God on Earth: Emperor Domitian: The re-invention of Rome at the end of the 1st century AD by Aurora Raimondi Cominesi 9789088909542
RRP: €41.65€39.38In life, the emperor Domitian (81-96 CE) marketed himself as a god; after his assassination he was condemned to be forgotten. Nonetheless he oversaw a literary, cultural, and monumental revival on a scale not witnessed since Rome's first emperor,... -
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery by Alexandra Lester-Makin
RRP: €47.60€39.48This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first... -
'Remember Me To All' by Louise Loe 9780904220759
RRP: €29.75€25.35During the First World War, 250 soldiers were buried behind enemy lines in unmarked mass graves on the outskirts of the village of Fromelles, Northern France. They were among several thousand Australian and British soldiers who were killed in the Battle... -
Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c.650-1100 AD by Jo Buckberry 9781785705496
RRP: €35.70€29.24Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has seen the... -
Gilded City: Tour Medieval and Renaissance London by Duncan Smith 9781914414848
RRP: €29.75€20.62Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been... -
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent V. Flannery 9780674416772
RRP: €27.31€21.88Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent... -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New Discoveries at the Edge of Europe by Jessica Smyth
RRP: €29.74€24.15The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The... -
Villages of Glasgow: North of the Clyde by Aileen Smart 9781839830402
RRP: €15.46€10.64This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart's best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain's most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now subsumed within... -
The Declaration of Arbroath: 'For Freedom Alone' by Edward J. Cowan
RRP: €11.89€11.06The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state with the right to use... -
The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire & Shropshire by Robert Walker
RRP: €29.75€25.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839546Author Robert WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Museum Experience Revisited by John H. Falk 9781611320459
RRP: €45.21€39.72The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential... -
Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea by J.P. Oleson
RRP: €41.65€34.30One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE by Margreet L. Steiner
€47.29This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical... -
Decoding the Pictish Symbols by W. A. Cummins 9780752452395
RRP: €23.79€17.48The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their... -
Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland by Ian Armit
RRP: €29.75€24.16The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the last 20 years that the results of field survey, excavation and radiocarbon dating have begun to flesh out a... -
Castles of Kent Through Time by John Guy 9781398110878
RRP: €19.03€12.91Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more celebrated castles, such as Leeds, Rochester and Dover. Because of their picturesque and dramatic... -
Values in Heritage Practice: Creative Activities for Curators, Consultants, Facilitators, Teachers and Leaders by Kate Clark 9781789203004
RRP: €33.26€26.87Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and old buildings, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? How do we make the case for heritage when there are... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad by Karen Radner
RRP: €145.78€132.76This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-Art of Britain by Aron D. Mazel 9781905739165
RRP: €35.70€29.24Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well-kept secret. However, over the last few decades hundreds of new rock art panels have been discovered and several regional surveys have been carried out... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume 2: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon by Nadine Moeller
RRP: €136.85€124.81This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman 9780816043460
RRP: €83.30€68.51For almost three thousand years, a succession of glorious communities flourished in ancient Mesopotamia. This book explores the culture of these great civilisations, which gave rise to literature, art, government, and urban life. It examines the daily... -
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth by Joerg Mull 9789464260779
RRP: €41.65€39.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464260779Author Joerg MullFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: €38.08€31.46Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age... -
Old Skye Tales: Traditions, Reflections and Memories by William Mackenzie
RRP: €10.70€7.54In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration. He recounts the history of the leading families of... -
The Nile and its People: 7000 Years of Egyptian History by Charlotte Booth
€3.99 - €15.04The Nile and its People is an ambitious title, covering 7000 years of Egyptian history, from the time of the first settlers in Egypt through to the modern day, with the Nile being the constant element throughout. Changes through history of the culture... -
Excavations at Knowth Volume 7: The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath by George Eogan
€77.68The complex of passage tombs at Knowth is dated c. 3200-2900 BC, and this volume deals with one of the most significant aspects of the site. It presents a complete catalogue of the 390 recorded carved stones at Knowth, through descriptions, drawings and... -
Farmers in Prehistoric Britain by Francis Pryor 9780752438672
RRP: €26.78€19.55Francis Pryor - regular contributor on Channel 4's Time Team and the man behind the Britain BC and Britain AD television series - maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and... -
Unravelling the Landscape: An Inquisitive Approach to Archaeology by Mark Bowden
RRP: €29.75€22.07Referring to recent surveys by the staff of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and their colleagues, Bowden (an archaeological field investigator and head of the Swindon field team) dispels the myths that survey is too complex... -
Ways of Being Roman: Discourses of Identity in the Roman West by Louise Revell 9781842172926
RRP: €35.64€28.71This book examines the question of identity in the Roman provinces of the western empire. It takes an innovative approach in looking at the wider discourses or ideologies through which an individual sense of self was learnt and expressed. This... -
Pyramids, Temples & Tombs of Ancient Egypt: An illustrated atlas of the lands of the pharoahs by Lorna Oakes 9781846810886
€4.36 - €6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846810886Author Lorna OakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing -
Neolithic Cave Burials: Agency, Structure and Environment by Rick Peterson
RRP: €101.15€71.60This is the first book-length treatment of Neolithic burial in Britain to focus primarily on cave evidence. It interprets human remains from forty-eight caves and compares them to what we know of Neolithic collective burial elsewhere in Britain and... -
Royal Books and Holy Bones by Eamon Duffy
RRP: €29.75€21.44In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the... -
Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 by Catherine Rice 9781783276622
RRP: €101.15€97.22This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and... -
Archaeology and Bible History by Joseph Free
RRP: €22.60€21.62Summarizes the history of the Bible and sheds light on biblical events through archaeological discoveries. A rigorous work of biblical history, interpretation, and criticism; Joseph P. Free's classic-first published in 1950-served an entire generation of... -
Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, Cornwall by Sean R. Taylor
RRP: €69.02€56.00Down the Bright Stream: The Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley reports on a series of fieldwork projects carried out in the Tregurra Valley, to the east of Truro, Cornwall. The work was undertaken over a period of seven years between... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos
RRP: €47.60€35.47Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I by Anna Gannon 9780714118239
€98.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714118239Author Anna GannonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press -
The Land Was Forever: 15000 Years in North-East Scotland: Excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty by Kirsty Dingwall 9781785709883
RRP: €47.60€39.01Eight sites were excavated along the route of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route between Balmedy to Tipperty. The sites are mostly multi-period. One site on the banks of the River Dee, revealed nine phases of activity extending from the Upper... -
The Signature of All Things: On Method by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: €29.75€22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951986Author Giorgio AgambenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm