middle ages
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Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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Narcissus and Goldmund
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- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
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The Bible and its Rewritings
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- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
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The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
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The Wandering Scholars
- £24.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
- £12.00
- The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And…
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Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday. The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern…
- Add to basket
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
- Add to basket
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
- Add to basket
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- £10.00
- One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian. One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled…
- Add to basket
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The Bible and its Rewritings
- £40.00
- Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament -- Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John -- are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden,…
- Add to basket
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
- Add to basket
-
The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
- Add to basket
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The Wandering Scholars
- £24.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
- Add to basket
-
The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
- £12.00
- The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And…
- Add to basket