This volume offers readers a comprehensive and vivid picture of medieval death and burial in England, bringing the fascinating beliefs and rituals surrounding mortality into sharp focus....Loe edasi...
This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland and casts a new light on a previously overlooked part of the Viking world....Loe edasi...
Franks and Northmen explores the full spectrum of Franco-Scandinavian interaction, examining not just violence but also less well-known relationships centered on acts of diplomacy, commerce, and mission and demonstrating the transformative nature of...Loe edasi...
This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as Romanesque....Loe edasi...
This book explores the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles and identities in Ireland coinciding with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living wit...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world - Greece - in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade....Loe edasi...
The Caedmon Poems (1916) contains the texts of Caedmons poems, the birth of Christian poetry in England. The poems are reproduced in a modern English translation, with an extensive introduction to each....Loe edasi...
Late Saxon and Viking Art (1949) is a lavishly-illustrated examination of the art of the Saxon era the carvings, sculpture, illustrations, drawings and paintings that emerged from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking cultures....Loe edasi...
The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems (1942) contains the many verse texts, most of them short, which are scattered here and there in manuscripts not primarily devoted to Anglo-Saxon poetry. Some, like Battle of Maldon, are well-known, while others are less s...Loe edasi...
Beowulf and Judith (1953) contains an extensive introduction to the texts of Beowulf and Judith, the full texts of the poems themselves, and comprehensive notes to the texts....Loe edasi...
The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius (1932) contains the texts and comprehensive notes on the Paris Psalter (the most extensive collection of Anglo-Saxon metrical translations of the Psalms) and the Meters of Boethius (the surviving Anglo-Sa...Loe edasi...
The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology....Loe edasi...
Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1972) was the first account to be written of art in England in the period of Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon styles. Famous illuminated manuscripts, the best of the sculptured stone crosses, and many splendid piec...Loe edasi...
The Exeter Book (1936) contains the texts of the Exeter Book, the largest of the great miscellanies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, together with an extensive introduction and notes....Loe edasi...
King Alfreds West-Saxon Version of Gregorys Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfreds lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for fixing the grammatical peculiarities of the West-Sax...Loe edasi...
Paris: The Powers that shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces royal, monastic and secular that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metr...Loe edasi...
This book offers an archaeological history of hermitages and eremitic communities, with reference to key examples and case-studies. It has a particular emphasis on the British medieval period, but it also contextualises this within a wider comparati...Loe edasi...
Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire investigates Southend, one of the five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire....Loe edasi...
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusades against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the resulting society created by the Teutonic Order which endured into the 16th century....Loe edasi...
