Medieval

The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has a world-famous collection of oriental manuscripts assembled by the late Sir Alfred Chester Beatty during the last century. A catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts was prepared by the eminent historian of Armenian...

Blood serves an excellent indicator of a nexus of late medieval and early modern Cultural Change, in which matter and meaning seems to have segregated progressively. As the harmony of body and spirit succumbed under the strain of competing world views,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827167Author Alessia BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788021083226Author I FolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867281572Author Xavier Barral I AltetFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867284993Author Serena RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259367Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951375Author Valentin GroebnerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith's life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. Organizing her book chronologically by Judith's...

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these...

One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty's copy of the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces the...

"Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking" examines medieval culture from a number of different viewpoints to reveal how the art of the Middle Ages can provide a unique insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and culture. The...

On the cusp of becoming a teenager, Charlie Gargiulo lived through the planned destruction of the Little Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Mass., in the 1960s. This is his story. He went on to become a legendary community organizer who led efforts to ensure...

In 1799, one of the most important hoards of gold from the European early Middle Ages was discovered near the village of Nagyszentmiklos (then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Sannicolau Mare, Romania). It consists of 23 gold vessels with a total weight of...

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians - including Male, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and...

The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of all miniatures of the region and period concerned -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023494Author Annemarie Weyl CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

The eleven studies reprinted here were published by Professor Kauffmann over a period of twenty years, and reflect his interest in Romanesque and Gothic art in England and Europe. They include a number of studies on panel paintings, and a highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803273242Author Monika BrenisinovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 3116g

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The publication of Professor Buchthal's work on Crusader miniature painting represented a landmark in medieval studies, and for nearly thirty years this book has remained the standard work of reference on the subject. For the first time the illuminated...

Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a collection of essays which critically examines medieval manuscripts. The book contains a wide range of contributions, the first examines the relationship of the Legende Doree and its...

This compelling volume contains ten articles drawn from papers presented at the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of the Medieval Theatre. Each essay examines the fascinating connection between medieval art and...

Each of these diverse essays confronts important issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include the symbolism of scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts (Karl Wentersdorf), connections between word and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786057685735Author Irene GiviashviliFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Koc University PressPublisher Koc University PressWeight(grams) 197g

This volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the...

This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history, specifically that of Chester. Though it may not contain the...

Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art brings together the work of seven researchers who, coming from different perspectives, and in some cases different disciplines, approach the question of ambiguity in relation to different case-studies where the represented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995387Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991785Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 185g

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time. Manuscripts included are: the Athelstan Psalter, the Harley Psalter, the Bury Psalter,...

The studies included in this volume supplement the work already published by the author on the imperial cult in the Roman West, focussing on the monuments of two cities in Roman Spain, Augusta Emerita (now Merida) and Tarraco (now Tarragona). The...

For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated...

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches...

Tabbaa's Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period. Examining devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451482Author Cailah JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

A look into an enchanting, underexplored genre of illustrated manuscripts that reveals new insights into urban life in the Middle Ages In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a curious genre of illustrated book that gained popularity among the newly...

Despite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the...

The small Byzantine church of the Soter (Christ the Saviour) stands on modern Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki, to the west of the arch of Galerius. Its name is preserved from the Ottoman period in the oral tradition alone. Tradition also provides the...