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Chester Art: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Sally-Beth MacLean
Booksplease Price: $45.28This 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 by Monica Ann Walker Vadillo
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $174.00Ambiguous 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... -
Romanesque Art by Victoria Charles
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $61.15Apologies 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 -
Medieval Art In The Christian West by Victoria Charles
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.58Apologies 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 -
Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration: Photographs of Sixteen Manuscripts with Descriptions and Index Thomas H. Ohlgren 9781879288102
Booksplease Price: $80.73Illustrations 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,... -
Precinct, Temple and Altar in Roman Spain: Studies on the Imperial Monuments at M-da and Tarragona Duncan Fishwick 9780367879211
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $75.72The 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... -
Early Celtic Art: From Its Origins to Its Aftermath Joel Gibbons 9780202361864
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $86.68For 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... -
Postcolonising the Medieval Image Eva Frojmovic 9780367331412
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $82.33Postcolonial 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... -
An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival Bilal Badat 9781912284672
Booksplease Price: $13.24Tabbaa'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... -
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270-1370: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book Cailah Jackson 9781474451482
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $177.18Apologies 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 -
The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City by Nina Rowe
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $90.95A 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... -
Crossing the Boundaries: Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities Konrad Eisenbichler 9780918720450
Booksplease Price: $56.84Despite 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 Church of Christ the Saviour, Thessaloniki: Bilingual edition, Greek/English by Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
RRP: $55.58Booksplease Price: $44.91The 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... -
East Meets West by Martin Bommas
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $17.34This entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Crusades from the eleventh to late thirteenth century; in particular it presents and... -
Eye and Mind: Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman Adam S Cohen 9781580441216
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $31.20Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical,... -
Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome: The Cistercian fresco cycle at Abbazia delle Tre Fontane by Kristin B. Aavitsland
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.20The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both... -
El Libro de Kells: Guia Oficial by Bernard Meehan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.19The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide (Spanish language edition), by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights... -
Word, Picture, and Spectacle by Davidson Clifford
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $29.97Each 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... -
St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England Kristen Collins 9781580442589
RRP: $162.83Booksplease Price: $159.14One of the most compelling and provocative books of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140. Heralded as a high point of English Romanesque illumination, the manuscript contains the... -
Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 Joni M. Hand 9781138246515
RRP: $111.13Booksplease Price: $98.20Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements-portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia-as... -
Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 by Clifford Davidson
RRP: $34.13Booksplease Price: $29.80This richly illustrated book surveys representations of the stage and acting from manuscript illuminations, stained glass, sculpture, woodcarving, wall paintings, and the woodcuts that appear in playbooks produced by the first English printers.About the... -
Das Book of Kells: Offizielle Einfuhrung by Bernard Meehan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.19The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide (German language edition), by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights... -
Studies in Islamic Painting, Epigraphy and Decorative Arts Bernard O'Kane 9781474474764
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $216.33This volume, lavishly illustrated with many images previously unpublished in colour, features articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide range of topics in medieval Islamic art. Controversial subjects such as the Siyah Qalam album paintings are examined in... -
Gothic Sculpture in America III: The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania by Joan A. Holladay
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $161.69With 446 entries examining some 550 works of figural, architectural, and decorative sculpture in 27 museums and public institutions, this volume continues the Census of Gothic Sculpture in America started by Dorothy Gillerman in 1989. In addition to such... -
Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History, 400-1400 by Caroline Bruzelius 9781599102030
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $37.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102030Author Caroline BruzeliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Art of Medieval Jewelry: An Illustrated History T.N. Pollio 9781476681757
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $66.26What are the origins of the imagery and designs on common jewelry and portable artwork between late antiquity and the Middle Ages? These dynamic centuries encompass the transformation of the Greco-Roman world into the nascent kingdoms and medieval states... -
A St Andrews Mystery by Richard Falconer 9780992753825
Booksplease Price: $26.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992753825Author Richard FalconerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Obsidian PublishingPublisher Obsidian PublishingWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)... -
Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art by Pamela A. Patton 9780271094977
RRP: $152.08Booksplease Price: $137.75Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or cultural parameters that both direct and protect their scholarship? Beginning with Thelma K... -
Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 Assaf Pinkus 9781138548060
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $81.74Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the 'living statue' and the simulacrum in religious, lay, and travel literature, this study explores the... -
Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece by Amanda Luyster 9781912554942
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $161.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912554942Author Amanda LuysterFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1792gDimensions(mm) 246mm... -
Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $67.86How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document... -
From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History by Colum Hourihane 9780983753711
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $53.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983753711Author Colum HourihaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityPublisher... -
The Bucolic Mode in Byzantine Art: Sound, Weather, Imperium Paroma Chatterjee 9781802701852
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $182.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fragments: Medieval Makers, Modern Responses Catherine A. Fernandez 9780271100029
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $147.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600 Anne Dunlop 9781041175629
Booksplease Price: $89.72A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian... -
Maniera Greca in Europe's Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s–1720s) Giedre Mickunaite 9781041182382
Booksplease Price: $89.72How and why does vernacular art become foreign? What does 'Greek manner' mean in regions far beyond the Mediterranean? What stories do images need? How do narratives shape pictures? The study addresses these questions in Byzantine paintings from the... -
Allegory in Byzantium: The Book of Wisdom and the hidden allegory in the age of Justinian Rainer Warland 9783795490126
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $122.60This book is about major early Byzantine works of art such as the ivory Cathedra of Ravenna, the Purple Codex of Rossano, and the Cypriot silver plates of the life of David held in Nicosia and New York.The leaps in pictorial organization, inconsistencies... -
Scribes and Scripts: Calligraphy in the High Middle Ages Richard Gameson 9780789214959
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $114.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wyvern Collection: Objects in Focus: The Baird Casket Vol I Paul Williamson 9781915401182
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.55This book presents an in-depth examination of a singular medieval ivory casket known as the 'Baird Casket'. It is the first in a series of scholarly books to be produced by the Wyvern Research Institute. Each volume will be devoted to an individual... -
A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second-Family Bestiary. Commentary, Art, Text and Translation. Willene B. Clark 9781837652679
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $60.49Text, translation, and critical study of one of the most important medieval bestiaries. The bestiary - a book of animals, both real and mythical - is one of the most interesting and appealing medieval artefacts. The "Second-family" bestiary is the...