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BOYDELL & BREWER (2008)
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The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2008)
pvp.88,66 €
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The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2007)
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Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.
The fortified religious ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2007)
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Among the Germanic tribes who ruled the fragments of the western Roman empire, the Ostrogoths enjoyed the greatest wealth and splendour. Conquering Italy itself from the warlord Odoacer, they inherited the buildings, traditions, and administrative ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2007)
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The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and cross-genre scholarship representing such fields as social history, economics, ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the supreme masters of opera, yet between 1754 (when Handel was still living) and 1920 not one of his operas was performed anywhere. Their revival in the ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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Among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists are the scraps of silk and wool and other fabrics that signal so eloquently their owner's status and concerns. Such clothing and textile finds have ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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From the time of Alfred the Great until beyond the end of the Middle Ages, bridges were vital to the rulers and people of England, but they were expensive and difficult to maintain. Who then ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
pvp.154,00 €
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The bestiary - a book of animals, both real and mythical - is one of the most interesting and appealing medieval artefacts. The `Second-family' bestiary is the most important and frequently produced version (some 49 ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2006)
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B: THE EVOLUTION OF FOLIATE CAPITALS IN THE PARIS BASIN BEFORE 1170. THE ARCHAIC CAPITALS PRIOR TO 1130
A complete collection of all the capitals carved in the Paris Basin before 1130 - over ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
pvp.33,00 €
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Between 1946 and 1959, the most outspoken voice in British film music was that of the celebrated Austrian émigré critic, Hans Keller [1919-85]. He argued passionately for 'the need for competent film music criticism', laid ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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The four Valois Dukes of Burgundy created, in little more than a century, a fabulously wealthy and independent state. Their centralised control and chancellery have bequeathed to us a vast treasure trove of documents, including ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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William Alwyn was a leading composer of British film music in the 1940s and '50s, a time when the British film industry was at is peak. His scores ranged from documentaries to almost 80 full-length ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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English alabasters represent a unique contribution to medieval art. Less sophisticated, perhaps, than other contemporary forms of religious art, they were a neglected area of study until this volume was first published in 1984.
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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The patronage of Benedictine art and architecture, and the circumstances that made it possible and desirable, reveal much about the ambitions, beliefs and allegiances of both the order and those who interacted with it; moreover, ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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Famous as one of the most extraordinary artefacts to survive from the eleventh century, the Bayeux Tapestry is an extremely fragile work of art measuring almost 70 metres long. The harmony and brightness of its ...
BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)
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William Dampier [1652-1715] is the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They each circumnavigated the world once; Dampier did so three times. He commanded ...
