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Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies: Multi-Scribe Manuscripts and their Patterns of Growth. A Study of the Earliest Cartularies of Glasgow Cathedral and Lindores Abbey Joanna Tucker 9781783274789
Booksplease Price: £109.33The physical nature of the medieval cartulary examined alongside its textual contents. Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed... -
An English Chronicle 1377-1461: A New Edition - Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21608, and Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Lyell 34 by William Marx 9780851157931
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67A new edition of the full text of the Brut continuation, previously only known through the damaged version, Lyell 34. In 1856 J.S. Davies edited for the Camden Society the continuation of the... -
The Battle of Yorktown, 1781 - A Reassessment by Dr. John D. Grainger
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99An accessible and authoritative account of the battle of Yorktown (1781), the last major battle in the American War of Independence, where an outnumbered British Army surrendered to American forces... -
Thirteenth Century England XV - Authority and Resistance in the Age of Magna Carta. Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2013 by Janet Burton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Fruits of the most recent research into the "long" thirteenth century. The twin themes of authority and resistance are the focus of this volume, explored through topics such as landholding and... -
Apostate Nuns in the Later Middle Ages by Elizabeth Makowski
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them. To make a vow is a matter of the will, to fulfill one is a matter of necessity, declared late... -
The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England by N. J. Higham
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion... -
Medieval Pets Kathleen Walker-Meikle 9781783275694
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.18An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature. Animals in the Middle Ages have often been discussed - but usually only... -
The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918 by Colin Partridge 9781783276554
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and... -
Warrior Churchmen of Medieval England, 1000-1250 - Theory and Reality by Craig M. Nakashian 9781783274338
Booksplease Price: £31.89An examination of the actions of clerics in warfare in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking at the difference between their actions and prescriptions for behaviour. Christianity has had a... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6 by Robin Netherton 9781843835370
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11 Robin Netherton (Author) 9781783270026
Booksplease Price: £66.94A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society. The second decade of this acclaimed and popular series begins with a... -
Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex Kate Mees (Royalty Account) 9781783274178
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29Multi-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions. Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12 by Robin Netherton
Booksplease Price: £66.94The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The studies collected here range through art, artifacts, documentary text, and poetry, addressing both... -
Thirteenth Century England XIII - Proceedings of the Paris Conference, 2009 by Janet E. Burton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris. Additional editors: Karen Stoeber, Bjoern Weiler The articles collected here... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 Robin Netherton (Author) 9781843834519
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The fifth volume of this annual series features several articles examining the interaction of medieval... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 by Robin Netherton 9781843832034
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.66The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. Historical dress and textiles, always a... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9 by Robin Netherton 9781843838562
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.76The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 13 by Robin Netherton 9781783272150
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.24The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. Three of the essays in this collection focus on Italy, with contributions on footwear in Lucca based... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 by Robin Netherton 9781843831235
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.36First volume in new series dedicated to medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. The study of medieval... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 10 by Robin Netherton 9781843839071
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.24The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8 by Robin Netherton 9781843837367
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.76Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from... -
Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450 by Geoff Egan
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.38Description and discussion of over two thousand brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories found in archaeological digs in London, and dating from the period 1150-1450... -
A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets by Jared C. Hartt 9781783273072
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages. Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries... -
Political Society in Later Medieval England: A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter Benjamin Thompson 9781783270309
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence. Christine Carpenter's influential work on late-medieval English society aspires to... -
The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies Catherine A Bradley (Person) 9781783272723
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.48The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music. The Montpellier Codex (Bibliotheque interuniversitaire, Section... -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 7 by Robin Netherton 9781843836254
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £60.76The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This year's volume focuses largely on the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in the Middle... -
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 by Jane Whittle
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour... -
The Fifteenth Century III - Authority and Subversion by Linda Clark 9781843830252
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The themes of authority and subversion explored in relation to royal power, orthodox religion, and violence and disorder. The essays in this volume explore themes long seen as central to the... -
Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945 Adrian Wright 9781783274994
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. ... -
Priests and their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson
Booksplease Price: £27.60Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church. Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal... -
The Dorset Rotulus - Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet by Margaret Bent
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.98The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet. From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and... -
The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England James G. Clark 9780851159003
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation. It continues to be assumed in some quarters that England's monasteries... -
Priests and their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson 9781783273669
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church. Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal... -
Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure Garden Fiona Cowell 9781783274321
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52First full biography of Richard Woods, the landscape designer, examining his work and restoring him to the attention he merits. A contemporary of the famous landscape designer "Capability" Brown,... -
Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages by Anthony Musson
Booksplease Price: £96.11The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages. This book represents the first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in... -
Journal of Medieval Military History - Volume XIX by John France
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The articles here focus on activities in north-western Europe, with a reconsideration of... -
Thirteenth Century England II - Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1987 by Peter Coss
Booksplease Price: £96.11Thirteenth Century England II continues the series which began in 1986 with the publication of the first volume of the biannual Newcastle upon Tyne conferences on thirteenth-century England... -
Short Scottish Prose Chronicles by Dan Embree
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28Edition, with facing translation, of chronicles from the late medieval/early modern period, concerning the history of Scotland. The seven chronicles edited here record Scottish history as it... -
The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, - Papers from the Third Strawberry Hill Conference, 1986 by Christopher Harper-Bill
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99`This wide-ranging and instructive collection makes a valuable addition to the fast-growing body of work on medieval chivalry.' HISTORYAbout the AuthorDavid Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy... -
Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions by Terje Spurkland 9781843835042
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99Readable, enjoyable and provides a clear overview of runes and their importance to reading the past. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and...