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Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Many 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... -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43WINNER 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... -
The Book: A History of the Bible by Christopher de Hamel 9780714845241
Booksplease Price: £37.22A compelling, highly readable, scrupulously factual and unbiased history of the Bible as a book, with over 200 rich, fascinating and varied illustrations of Bibles from all times and places. The... -
The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780241670125
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.70The 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... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 9780241304389
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73‘Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous … delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket Christopher de Hamel 9780141994246
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29... -
An Intimate Art by Sandra Hindman 9780983854630
Booksplease Price: £32.33Books 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 9780525559412
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559412Author Christopher de HamelFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imp -
Les Enluminures: Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages by Christopher de Hamel 9780997184273
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.27This beautiful catalogue explores four books that are remarkable survivals of what people read in the Middle Ages - the fi nest of medieval Bibles (the greatest text of Western civilization), one of... -
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780525559436
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £19.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559436Author Christopher de HamelFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Im -
The Medieval World at Our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman by Christopher de Hamel 9781909400887
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £71.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400887Author Christopher de HamelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imp -
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold by John Guy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07SHORTLISTED 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'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... -
Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Hans 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Edward 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... -
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee 9781788166386
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian 'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about... -
Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill
Booksplease Price: £13.73From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.83'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... -
Holy Hoaxes: A Beautiful Deception by William Voelke 9782956702474
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkle's collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With thorough essays and beautiful illustrations, Voekle... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This 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... -
The Burke Collection of Italian Miniatures by Sandra Hidman
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £79.70The magnificent Burke Collection of Italian miniatures, which is housed in Special Collections in the the Stanford University Libraries, has been built over more than twenty years and includes... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.90A 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... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Jessica Rawson 9780141994512
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43An 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 221 BC cemented many of the... -
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Guy 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... -
Why We Read by 9781802060959
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give... -
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom by Marjorie Curry Woods 9780691170800
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Saint Augustine famously "wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword," and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in... -
Herbert of Bosham - A Medieval Polymath by Michael Staunton
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05In-depth study of an important writer and close associate of Becket. Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194) was one of the most brilliant, original and versatile thinkers of the twelfth century... -
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism by Giles Fraser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'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,... -
The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages by Thomas Forrest Kelly 9780393285031
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.78The Role of the Scroll answers the question of why scrolls were made when it was possible to produce books. Scrolls were the standard form of book in Western antiquity but from the fourth century... -
The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector - Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya by Takami Matsuda
Booksplease Price: £45.14New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing. This acclaimed study of English medieval manuscripts and early printed books - many items from... -
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint by Lloyd de Beer 9780714128382
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Praise 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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... -
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden 9780674271104
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.95A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year"Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."-Philip Pullman"If you care about books, and if you...