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Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.70Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.45The 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... -
An Intimate Art by Sandra Hindman 9780983854630
Booksplease Price: $43.32Books of Hours are probably the most famous of all medieval illuminated manuscripts. Presented here are 12 Books of Hours that date from the origins of the genre in the 13th century to its eclipse in... -
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780525559436
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780525559412
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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold by John Guy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure... -
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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold by John Guy 9780141044675 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.30From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free... -
Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.85SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen... -
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City Iris Origo 9780241293928
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.Drawing on an... -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Dr Ross King 9781784709372
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and... -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $37.39A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which... -
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which... -
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism by Giles Fraser
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011,... -
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint by Lloyd de Beer 9780714128382
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.91Praise for the exhibition ***** The Times ***** The Telegraph ***** The Guardian ***** Evening Standard Praise for the book 'If you cannot make it to the show itself, then I implore you to buy... -
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages Liza Picard 9781780228907
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's...