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The Medieval Calendar Year by Bridget Ann Henisch 9780271019048
RRP: $68.15$60.82The Medieval Calendar Year celebrates the pictorial convention known as "The Labors of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. Richly illustrated and elegantly presented, it provides valuable insights into prevailing social attitudes and... -
Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra
RRP: $78.00$66.28We think with objects-we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with... -
Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art Kristen Collins 9781606067857
RRP: $68.25$57.66This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and why he came to be depicted as a Black African king. According to the Gospel of Matthew, magi from the East, following a star, traveled to... -
Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral by Stephen Murray
RRP: $68.25$54.87Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the... -
Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser
RRP: $78.00$65.50How 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... -
Bruegel's Winter Scenes: Historians and Art Historians in Dialogue by Sabine van Sprang
RRP: $97.50$84.34This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish... -
Masterpieces: Medieval Art by James M. Robinson
$53.59The British Museum has one of the world's finest collections of antiquities from medieval Europe, and this is the first fully illustrated guide to the highlights of the collection, now in paperback. In one beautiful volume are displayed 150 of the most... -
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts Sophie Page 9780712352109
RRP: $25.33$16.77The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of stars and planets has always been a source of fascination. Medieval astrologers, though sometimes feared to be magicians in league with demons, were usually revered scholars whose ideas and... -
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City by Caroline Bruzelius
RRP: $92.63$79.25Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and... -
The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy by Nancy P. Sevcenko
RRP: $77.98$69.15The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through... -
Images in the Margins by Margot Nishimura 9780892369829
RRP: $35.08$30.01An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today,... -
Toward a Global Middle Ages - Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts Bryan C. Keene 9781606065983
RRP: $97.50$83.17Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books - like today's museums - preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures and everyone's place in it. Often a Eurocentric... -
Anglo-Saxon Art by Leslie Webster 9780801477669
RRP: $60.45$42.55This is the first new introduction to Anglo-Saxon art in twenty-five years and the first book to take account of the 2009 discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard-the largest cache of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. Written by one of the... -
Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were by Beate Fricke
RRP: $31.10$28.16To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying... -
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa by Kathleen Bickford Berzock 9780691182681
RRP: $117.00$88.41How 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... -
Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History, 400-1400 by Caroline Bruzelius 9781599102030
RRP: $39.00$34.36Apologies 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 *... -
Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 Assaf Pinkus 9781138548060
RRP: $85.78$74.96Engaging 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... -
Picturing the City in Medieval Italian Painting by Felicity Ratté 9780786424283
RRP: $56.53$45.59Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. In turn, images of buildings in paintings and other artwork can reveal much about the character of a city. This richly illustrated text focuses primarily on... -
The Secrets We Keep: Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire Roland Betancourt 9781606069080
RRP: $33.13$28.49Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of the Byzantine Empire-such as the relics of the imperial palace and the military uses of Greek fire-have been... -
Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity C.1420-1550 Bryony Coombs 9781399510028
RRP: $175.50$159.84Explores the links between patronage, identity and Franco-Scottish relations in the late medieval and early modern periods -
The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe Larisa Grollemond 9781606069035
RRP: $68.25$57.66From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious mixture of truth, legend, and outright superstition. One... -
The Book of Bibles. 40th Ed. by Andreas Fingernagel 9783836591454
RRP: $48.75$33.46In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. This edition brings together 50 of the finest medieval... -
Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East by Heather A. Badamo 9780271095226
RRP: $194.90$173.69This volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic... -
The McCarthy Collection: Sculpture by Charles T. Little 9781915401052
$229.63This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and original research, it is a notable contribution to medieval scholarship.The McCarthy collection comprises more... -
Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps by Jennifer Borland 9780271093468
RRP: $81.80$74.43In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential,... -
Painting the Hortus deliciarum: Medieval Women, Wisdom, and Time by Danielle B. Joyner 9780271070889
RRP: $183.20$163.41Between 1170 and 1190 in Alsace, Abbess Herrad compiled for her canonesses an elaborate manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, which combined resplendent images with quotations from more than fifty texts to portray a history of the Christian church across... -
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages by Mary Carruthers 9780199590322
$214.60This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience... -
Saints and Spectacle: Byzantine Mosaics in their Cultural Setting by Carolyn L. Connor 9780190457624
$210.44Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold... -
The Heritage of 'Maitre Alpais': An International and Interdisciplinary Examination of Medieval Limoges Enamel and Associated Objects by Stefan Rohrs
$59.92Focusing on the differences and similarities between the renowned 'Alpais' Limoges ciborium, dated to c. 1200, in the Musee du Louvre, and examples in the British Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, together with two electrotype copies of the ... -
Animism, Materiality, and Museums: How Do Byzantine Things Feel? by Glenn Peers
RRP: $48.65$46.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894678Author Glenn PeersFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen N. Fliegel by Elina Gertsman
RRP: $199.88$174.66This volume celebrates the storied career of Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Authors of these essays, all leading curators in their fields, offer insights into curatorial... -
Aspects of Art of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by C. R. Dodwell
RRP: $117.00$109.12Professor C. R. Dodwell wrote with authority on most aspects of Western European medieval art. From his doctoral work on The Canterbury School of Illumination, he continued to maintain a steady output of important publications until his death in 1994. ... -
Studies in Early Christian and Mediaeval Irish Art: v. 2: Manuscripts by Francoise Henry
RRP: $117.00$109.90Over the past fifty years, Francoise Henry has been the leading authority on the history of early Irish art. A pupil of Henri Focillon, she united two traditions of scholarship, one French and one Irish, and her understanding of the European context... -
Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting: v. 1 by E.B. Garrison
RRP: $117.00$111.07The 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 -... -
Studies in Ottonian, Romanesque and Gothic Art by Rosalie Green
RRP: $97.50$92.06Rosalie Green's interest in iconography provides a common thread in her work on the art of Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three papers are concerned with one of the great medieval illuminated manuscripts - the Hortus Deliciarum of... -
Studies in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture by Rosemary Cramp
RRP: $117.00$109.12This volume brings together for the first time Rosemary Cramp's seminal studies on Anglo-Saxon crosses and sculptural fragments. The papers are principally concerned with the kingdom of Northumbria but the essays also trace the influence of ... -
The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography by Pamela A. Patton
RRP: $138.35$123.08What does the study of iconography entail for scholars active today? How does it intersect with the broad array of methodological and theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art historians? Should we still dare to use the term "iconography" to... -
Le Livre de Kells: Guide Officiel by Bernard Meehan
RRP: $25.33$16.77The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide (French language edition), by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights... -
Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art by Heidi C. Gearhart
RRP: $192.95$171.83In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the... -
Ornament as Argument: Textile Pages and Textile Metaphors in Early Medieval Manuscripts by Anna Bucheler
RRP: $141.38$127.63This study, for the first time, systematically analyzes the function and meaning of so-called textile pages in book illustration of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The ornamented pages of gospels and liturgical books evoke Byzantine and Islamic silk...