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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: $25.33$17.73THE 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... -
Tarot de Marseille: Paris 1890: Anima Antiqua by Giordano Berti 9780738779218
RRP: $70.10$40.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738779218Author Giordano BertiPage Count 32Imprint Llewellyn PublicationsPublisher Llewellyn PublicationsWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 127mm * 76mm *... -
St. Albans Psalter - Painting and Prayer in Medieval England . Collins 9781606061459
RRP: $42.88$36.17This is a fascinating look at one of the world's most important and renowned 12th-century manuscripts. The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between 1120... -
The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241239018
RRP: $38.98$26.58Learn 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... -
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
RRP: $25.33$16.77'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen... -
Early Medieval Art by Lawrence Nees
RRP: $45.81$33.17The first millennium saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in Europe. While books had long been central to the Christian religious tradition, education, and culture, they now became an important artistic medium, sometimes decorated with... -
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille 9781789140064
RRP: $33.05$32.10What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated... -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $29.23$21.35WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous book' David Attenborough'Full of delights' Tom StoppardAn extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the... -
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Spirituality, Art and Identity - The British Library Guide by Eleanor Jackson 9780712354813
RRP: $25.33$16.77The 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... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: $29.23$21.35For 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... -
Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: $19.48$13.86A 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... -
The Book of Kells: Official Guide 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, by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights into the Book of Kells,... -
Penned and Painted: The Art & Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Lucy Freeman Sandler 9780712354363
RRP: $48.75$30.95The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin-was identified with... -
Medieval Wall Paintings by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $19.48$14.96The walls of medieval churches were brightly painted with religious imagery and colourful patterns, and although often shadows of their former selves, these paintings are among the most enigmatic art to survive the Middle Ages. This beautifully... -
The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains Michaela Hruba 9788024641447
RRP: $54.60$45.38A history of the lost art of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The development of mining towns in the Ore Mountain region of Bohemia during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was driven by the Saxon nobility who brought with them the culture of their... -
Black Renaissance: St. Orpheus Breviary, Vol. II by Miklos Szentkuthy 9781940625263
RRP: $32.18$24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625263Author Miklos SzentkuthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: $78.00$53.72The 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... -
Medieval Art by Veronica Sekules
RRP: $45.81$33.17This 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... -
Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204 by Cynthia Hahn
RRP: $97.40$87.91Reliquaries, one of the central art forms of the Middle Ages, have recently been the object of much interest among historians and artists. Until now, however, they have had no treatment in English that considers their history, origins, and place within... -
Viking Designs by Albert G. Smith 9780486404691
RRP: $14.61$9.63Apologies 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)... -
Gargoyles and Grotesques by Alex Woodcock
RRP: $17.53$13.57Gargoyles 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 Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: $19.48$13.86'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... -
Northern Renaissance Art by Susie Nash 9780192842695
RRP: $45.81$34.01This 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... -
How to Read Medieval Art Wendy A. Stein 9781588395979
RRP: $38.90$33.81An 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... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $19.48$13.86From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in... -
Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art Michael Kerrigan 9781783612116
RRP: $25.33$17.55Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts were 'illuminated' through the use of brightly coloured... -
Illuminated Manuscripts by Richard Hayman
RRP: $17.53$12.58Illuminated 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... -
Medieval Church Architecture by Jon Cannon
RRP: $19.48$14.96Britain 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... -
Early Art and Architecture of Africa by Peter Garlake
RRP: $45.81$32.39This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Peter Garlake uses the latest research and... -
The Lewis Chessmen by James Robinson 9780714150239 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.70$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 Lewis Chessmen James Robinson 9780714150239
RRP: $11.70$8.58This 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 Medieval World Complete by Robert Bartlett 9780500283332
RRP: $58.50$40.95'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... -
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edition (Looking at Series) - A Guide to Technical Terms by Michelle P. Brown
RRP: $33.13$28.49What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: $25.33$16.77England, 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... -
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
RRP: $19.48$13.07Longlisted 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... -
The Green Man by Richard Hayman 9780747807841
RRP: $15.58$12.95Green 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... -
The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World by Scot McKendrick
RRP: $78.00$54.11An extensively illustrated compendium of 45 expertly selected illuminated bibles that transport the reader through 1,000 years of history and across the Christian world. For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of art. Within this legacy of... -
The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan
RRP: $126.75$85.90The 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... -
Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry by Brenda Williams
RRP: $11.70$8.66Ever since it came to the world's attention in the 17th century, the world's most famous tapestry has been a source of never-ending speculation. This book highlights the background of its construction and the events of 1066 that it portrays. It details... -
Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims by Roger Rosewell
RRP: $17.53$13.57In the Middle Ages, it was thought that praying at the right shrine could save you from just about anything, from madness and famine to false imprisonment and even shipwreck. Kingdoms, cities, and even individual trades had patron saints that would...