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Give a Manor Take a Manor: The Rise and Decline of a Medieval Manor (Hardcover): Murray Johnston Give a Manor Take a Manor: The Rise and Decline of a Medieval Manor (Hardcover)
Murray Johnston
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Return from Exile (Hardcover): Marie Laure Return from Exile (Hardcover)
Marie Laure
R850 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R116 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Saint Joan (Hardcover): George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (Hardcover)
George Bernard Shaw
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Saint Joan (Paperback): George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (Paperback)
George Bernard Shaw
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hunting Picts - Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (Paperback): Jane Geddes Hunting Picts - Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus (Paperback)
Jane Geddes
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Drosten stone - one of Scotland's premier monuments - came to light during restoration work at St Vigeans church, near Arbroath, in the 1870s. A rare example of Pictish writing, the Drosten stone is just one in an astounding collection of exquisitely preserved Pictish sculptures discovered in and around the church. The carvings on these stones revel in Pictish inventiveness, teeming with lively naturalistic animals and innovative compositions of monsters and people, as well as both Pictish symbols and everyday objects. The sculptures' iconography also draws on a deep knowledge of Christian and classical literature, witness to a highly literate and cosmopolitan society. This definitive study of St Vigeans' Pictish stones, generously illustrated with plates of the full collection, begins in the recent past, when the sculptures began to emerge as a remarkable historic entity. It then explores the history of the sculptures, including an analysis of the carvings, the geology of the stones and attempts to extract meaning and context for this unique stone collection as part of a powerful ecclesiastical landscape.

HowExpert Guide to Medieval Reenactment - 101 Tips to Become a Medieval Reenactor, Experience the Middle Ages, and Have Fun at... HowExpert Guide to Medieval Reenactment - 101 Tips to Become a Medieval Reenactor, Experience the Middle Ages, and Have Fun at Renaissance Fairs (Hardcover)
Howexpert, Abigail Bethke
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Old English Runes - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to... Old English Runes - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to Terminologies (Hardcover)
Gaby Waxenberger, Kerstin Kazzazi, John Hines
R4,932 Discovery Miles 49 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstatt-Munchen Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt in March 2012. The conference brought together experts working in an area broadly referred to as Runology. Scholars working with runic objects come from several different fields of specialisation, and the aim was to provide more mutual insight into the various methodologies and theoretical paradigms used in these different approaches to the study of runes or, in the present instance more specifically, runic inscriptions generally assigned to the English and/or the Frisian runic corpora. Success in that aim should automatically bring with it the reciprocal benefit of improving access to and understanding of the runic evidence, expanding and enhancing insights gained within such closely connected areas of study of the Early-Mediaeval past.

County folklore (Volume VI); Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire (Hardcover): Gutch County folklore (Volume VI); Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire (Hardcover)
Gutch
R899 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R77 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars - Illustrated (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): James... Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars - Illustrated (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
James Burnes
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Extracts From the Notitia Dignitatum; v.6 no. 4 (Hardcover): William 1857-1918 Fairley Extracts From the Notitia Dignitatum; v.6 no. 4 (Hardcover)
William 1857-1918 Fairley
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Middle Ages - A Captivating Guide to the Dark Ages and Black Death (Hardcover): Captivating History Middle Ages - A Captivating Guide to the Dark Ages and Black Death (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R745 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vikings - A Captivating Guide to the History of the Vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson (Hardcover): Captivating History Vikings - A Captivating Guide to the History of the Vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R776 R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History - Series for 1894 (Hardcover): University of... Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History - Series for 1894 (Hardcover)
University of Pennsylvania Dept of; Edward Potts 1861-1947 Cheyney, Dana Carleton 1866-1933 Munro
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Salvation and Sin - Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Hardcover): David Aers Salvation and Sin - Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Hardcover)
David Aers
R3,585 Discovery Miles 35 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Salvation and Sin, David Aers continues his study of Christian theology in the later Middle Ages. Working at the nexus of theology and literature, he combines formidable theological learning with finely detailed and insightful close readings to explore a cluster of central issues in Christianity as addressed by Saint Augustine and by four fourteenth-century writers of exceptional power. Salvation and Sin explores various modes of displaying the mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with different accounts of sin and its consequences. Theologies of grace and versions of Christian identity and community are its pervasive concerns. Augustine becomes a major interlocutor in this book: his vocabulary and grammar of divine and human agency are central to Aers' exploration of later writers and their works. After the opening chapter on Augustine, Aers turns to the exploration of these concerns in the work of two major theologians of fourteenth-century England, William of Ockham and Thomas Bradwardine. From their work, Aers moves to his central text, William Langland's Piers Plowman, a long multigeneric poem contributing profoundly to late medieval conversations concerning theology and ecclesiology. In Langland's poem, Aers finds a theology and ethics shaped by Christology where the poem's modes of writing are intrinsic to its doctrine. His thesis will revise the way in which this canonical text is read. Salvation and Sin concludes with a reading of Julian of Norwich's profound, compassionate, and widely admired theology, a reading which brings her Showings into conversation both with Langland and Augustine.

The Alexiad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Anna Comnena The Alexiad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Anna Comnena
R1,171 Discovery Miles 11 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
St. Albert the Great - The First Universal Doctor (Hardcover): Thomas M. Schwertner St. Albert the Great - The First Universal Doctor (Hardcover)
Thomas M. Schwertner
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Against Apion Hardcover (Hardcover): Flavius Josephus Against Apion Hardcover (Hardcover)
Flavius Josephus
R688 R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Britain Before 1066 - Volume 2--The Anglo-Saxon Invasion: 410 A.D.-802 A.D. (Hardcover): Charles Oman A History of Britain Before 1066 - Volume 2--The Anglo-Saxon Invasion: 410 A.D.-802 A.D. (Hardcover)
Charles Oman
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Crusades - the Final Attempts by Christendom to Conquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1202-1272-The Fall of... The Last Crusades - the Final Attempts by Christendom to Conquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land, 1202-1272-The Fall of Constantinople by Edwin Pears, The Final Crusades by T. A. Archer & The Fourth Crusade & Letters of the Crusaders by Dana Carlton Monro (Hardcover)
Edwin Pears, T. A. Archer, Dana Carlton Monro
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies - Semantics and Lexical Fields (Hardcover): Jeannine Bischoff,... Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies - Semantics and Lexical Fields (Hardcover)
Jeannine Bischoff, Stephan Conermann
R2,304 Discovery Miles 23 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses of key terms that are associated with the conceptualization of strong asymmetrical dependencies promise to provide new insights into the self-concept and knowledge of pre-modern societies. The majority of these key terms have not been studied from a semantic or terminological perspective so far. Our understanding of lexical fields is based on an onomasiological approach - which linguistic items are used to refer to a concept? Which words are used to express a concept? This means that the concept is a semantic unit which is not directly accessible but may be manifested in different ways on the linguistic level. We are interested in single concepts such as 'wisdom' or 'fear', but also in more complex semantic units like 'strong asymmetrical dependencies'. In our volume, we bring together and compare case studies from very different social orders and normative perspectives. Our examples range from Ancient China and Egypt over Greek and Maya societies to Early Modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Islamic and Roman law.

Studies in "Ragnar's Saga Lodbrokar" and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues (Hardcover): Rory McTurk Studies in "Ragnar's Saga Lodbrokar" and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues (Hardcover)
Rory McTurk
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Lionheart & the Third Crusade - Accounts of the Third Crusade-1198-1192, The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 and The 3rd... The Lionheart & the Third Crusade - Accounts of the Third Crusade-1198-1192, The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 and The 3rd Crusade (Hardcover)
Thomas Andrew Archer
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Warrior Blood (Hardcover): Sheila Menditta Lacey The Warrior Blood (Hardcover)
Sheila Menditta Lacey
R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Map of Medieval London - The City, Westminster and Southwark (Sheet map, folded): Caroline Barron, Vanessa Harding A Map of Medieval London - The City, Westminster and Southwark (Sheet map, folded)
Caroline Barron, Vanessa Harding
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A full colour map showing London about 1270 to 1300 - its walls and gates, parish churches, early monasteries and hospitals, and a growing number of private houses. The city's streets and alleyways had been established. Dominating London are the Tower of London in the east, the old St Paul's Cathedral in the west and London Bridge in the south. Up-river in Westminster, the abbey and the royal palace had been well established, and the great Westminster Hall is very evident. London's playground in Southwark was beginning to grow.

The Burgermeister's Daughter - Scandal in a 16th Century German Town (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): Steven E Ozment The Burgermeister's Daughter - Scandal in a 16th Century German Town (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
Steven E Ozment
R408 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father discovered that she was having secret, simultaneous affairs with a young nobleman and a cavalryman, he turned her out of the house in rage, but when she sued him for financial support, he had her captured, returned home and chained to a table as punishment. Anna eventually escaped and continued her suit against her father, her siblings and her home town in a bitter legal battle that was to last 30 years and end only upon her death.

Drawn from her surviving love letters and court records, The Burgermeister's Daughter is a fascinating examination of the politics of sexuality, gender and family in the 16th century, and a powerful testament to the courage and tenacity of a woman who defied the inequalities of this distant age.

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