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Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals... -
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown 9781250108593
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces... -
The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.00The Book of Kells is a masterpiece of medieval art - a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting. This new book, by the Keeper... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.31Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the... -
Medieval Church Architecture by Jon Cannon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Britain is a treasure trove of medieval architecture. Almost every village and town in the land has a church that was built during the period, whose history is legible - to those who know how to look - in every arch, capital, roof vault, and detail of... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
Coats of Arms: An Introduction to The Science and Art of Heraldry by Marc Fountain 9781615996957
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615996957Author Marc FountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Modern History PressPublisher Modern History PressWeight(grams) 154g -
Illuminated Manuscripts by Richard Hayman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments was a... -
Introduction to Manuscript Studies by Raymond Clemens
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £31.03Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in... -
The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: A Travel Companion by Jonathan Tucker
Booksplease Price: £17.08In this beautifully illustrated book, Jonathan Tucker uses travellers' anecdotes and a wealth of literary and historical sources to celebrate the cultural heritage of the countries that lie along the Silk Road. Stretching from the ancient Chinese... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a... -
The Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile by Raphael Loewe 9780500110294
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £27.98The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and The 'Brother' Haggadah - so-called because of its close relationship to The Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John... -
Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing John Boardley 9781851244737
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.68How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in colour? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century... -
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.95Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The PlantagenetsIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous... -
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 by Scott Nethersole 9781857095258
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.18Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for... -
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600 by Richard A. Goldthwaite
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £23.49Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy represents a departure from previous studies, both in its focus on demand and in its emphasis on the history of the material culture of the West. By demonstrating that the roots of modern consumer society can be... -
Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume II: 1400-1450 Ralph Moffat (Contributor) 9781837651481
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.91Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of... -
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.39'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen... -
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Spirituality, Art and Identity - The British Library Guide by Eleanor Jackson 9780712354813
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The Lindisfarne Gospels is an extraordinary book and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It was hand-written and decorated over 1,300 years ago by a single supremely gifted scribe-artist. It inspires awe both as a pinnacle of book design and... -
Medieval Art by Veronica Sekules
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £16.83This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of... -
Gargoyles and Grotesques by Alex Woodcock
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.18Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated and fashioned as serpents' heads and grotesque demons. Today, the term... -
The Lewis Chessmen James Robinson 9780714150239
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.62This lively book considers the various fascinating stories which have evolved to explain the ownership, concealment and discovery of the pieces whilst also placing them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular art of the middle Ages... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.95The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men... -
Viking Designs by Albert G. Smith 9780486404691
RRP: £7.49Booksplease Price: £5.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404691Author A. G. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm)... -
Grand Medieval Bestiary (Dragonet Edition): Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts by 9780789213082
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £48.58As the 587 colourful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant-and delightful-presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries-the compendiums of animal fact and fable... -
The Medieval World Complete by Robert Bartlett 9780500283332
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.00'The Medieval World Complete' re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Ingeniously organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this... -
Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250 by Richard Ettinghausen
Booksplease Price: £42.65This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the... -
Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.95A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting... -
How to Read Medieval Art Wendy A. Stein 9781588395979
Booksplease Price: £20.49An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle AgesHow to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which is... -
Northern Renaissance Art by Susie Nash 9780192842695
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £16.86This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from... -
The Bayeux Tapestry Lucien Musset 9781837651139
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.41A leading authority on the Bayeux Tapestry examines the work "frame by frame" in this profusely illustrated and annotated volume. The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most extraordinary artefacts to survive from the eleventh century. A fragile web of... -
The Book of Kells: Official Guide by Bernard Meehan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide, by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights into the Book of Kells,... -
Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350 by Paul Binski
Booksplease Price: £41.75In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study... -
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa by Kathleen Bickford Berzock 9780691182681
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £50.05How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval worldThe Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange was West... -
On Divers Arts by Theophilus 9780486237848
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486237848Author Augustine AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Green Man by Richard Hayman 9780747807841
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Inspired by the illustrations in book margins where heads were used to terminate trails of foliage, they were usually carved... -
Visualizing Community - Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia by Robert G. Ousterhout
RRP: £75.95Booksplease Price: £63.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024132Author Robert G. OusterhoutFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, GuardianA new departure in... -
Mosaics of Thessaloniki (English language edition): 4th to 14th Century by Charalambos Bakirtzis
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.02This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at the contemporary reader, both specialist and layman. The preserved mosaic decorations of the Rotonda, Hosios...