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Medieval Trade Routes - With Maps
Includes three fold-out maps - Alpine, Central European, and Asiatic trade routes. Paperback. 20 pages. Good condition. Cat No 5079
Ashwell Church: Medieval Drawings and Writings - A Guide
Records thirty examples of medieval carved graffiti and a location ground plan. Paperback. 12 pages. In good clean condition. Cat No 5075
Mediæval Costume and Life
A record of medieval costume worn by sections of the populace from royalty down. Illustrated with a large number of b&w plates. Hardback. 142 pages. Some obvious spotting to end papers and a small inscribed bookplate, otherwise in good condition in a tight clean binding.
Deutsche und Italienische Bildwerke des Mittelalters: Die Kunstwerke des Gröninger Saales [German and Italian Sculptures of the Middle Ages: Artworks in the Gröninger Hall]
Catalogue of Medieval sculptures in the Bode Museum Berlin. Illustrated with many b&w photographs. Text in German. Paperback. 64 pages. Good condition. Cat No N213
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
A detailed description of those who led a partly or wholly peripatetic life during the C14th - Pedlars, Minstrels, Itinerants, Carters, Herbalists, Preachers, Pardoners, Pilgrims and Outlaws - and the roads, bridges, inns and sanctuary churches they might encounter.
Une École Pré-Eyckienne Inconnue [An Unknown Pre-Eyckian School]
A large and detailed study of early Medieval Flemish liturgical paintings that pre-date the later and better-known works of C15th painters such as Jan van Eyck. Text in French. A large volume in card covers. 124 pages (some uncut), plus 130 large b&w plates.
Sen O Kříži [Dreams of a Cross]
An academic treatise on the Medieval spiritual poem 'Dream of the Rood' dating from the English monastic movement of the C8th, a portion of whose heroic section is preserved in runes on the remarkable Ruthwell cross near Dumfries.
Aspects of Production in Style in Dark Age Metalwork: Selected Papers Given to the British Museum Seminar on Jewellery, A.D.500-600
Comprises the expanded versions of two papers delivered at a conference on Dark Age Jewellery held at the British Museum in 1977 - 'Technical Properties as a Discriminant in Migration Jewellery' and Ornament Variation of Cast Saucer Brooches from the Upper Thames Region'.
New Offerings, Ancient Treasures: Studies in Medieval Art for George Henderson
A rich collection of twenty-three original essays presented as a tribute to George Henderson, Professor of Art at Cambridge University until 1996, and one of the 20th centuries greatest medieval art historians.
Collectanea Historica: Essays in Memory of Stuart Rigold
A festschrift of thirty-three essays on a wide variety of subjects related to Rigold's work as Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Public Buildings to mark his death in 1980 and broadly reflecting his passion for medieval architecture and those examples from Kent in particular.
