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Gothic Art (Hardcover): Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl Gothic Art (Hardcover)
Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Medieval Art In The Christian West (Hardcover): Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl Medieval Art In The Christian West (Hardcover)
Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Text, Image, Message - Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations (Hardcover, New): Leslie D Ross Text, Image, Message - Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations (Hardcover, New)
Leslie D Ross
R2,982 Discovery Miles 29 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.

Ivory Vikings (Hardcover): Nancy Marie Brown Ivory Vikings (Hardcover)
Nancy Marie Brown
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.

Coats of Arms - An Introduction to The Science and Art of Heraldry (Hardcover): Marc Fountain Coats of Arms - An Introduction to The Science and Art of Heraldry (Hardcover)
Marc Fountain; Illustrated by Marc Fountain
R849 R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Save R111 (13%) 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.

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
Walled in Light - The Life of St. Colette (Hardcover): Mother Mary Francis Walled in Light - The Life of St. Colette (Hardcover)
Mother Mary Francis; Edited by Mediatrix Press
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 19 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
Inferno (Hardcover): Dante Alighieri Inferno (Hardcover)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by J Simon Harris
R799 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Where Mortal and Immortal Meet (Hardcover): Andrew G Ralston Where Mortal and Immortal Meet (Hardcover)
Andrew G Ralston; Foreword by Mark E Johnstone; Introduction by James H Macaulay
R1,477 R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Save R258 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Power and Piety - Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain and Ireland - Volume 8 - The Warrior Monks (Hardcover): Gunter Endres,... Power and Piety - Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain and Ireland - Volume 8 - The Warrior Monks (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Transformation of Nature in Art (Hardcover): Ananda K. Coomaraswamy The Transformation of Nature in Art (Hardcover)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits - A Corpus of Miniature Paintings (Hardcover): Georgi Parpulov Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits - A Corpus of Miniature Paintings (Hardcover)
Georgi Parpulov
R4,390 Discovery Miles 43 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Author portraits are the most common type of figural illustration in Greek manuscripts. The vast majority of them depict the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Being readily comparable to one another, such images illustrate the stylistic development of Byzantine painting. In addition, they often contain details which throw light on elements of Byzantine material culture such as writing utensils, lamps, domestic furniture, etc. This corpus offers catalogue descriptions of all evangelist portraits that survived from the Middle Byzantine period, i.e. from the mid-ninth to mid-thirteenth century. Items are arranged in roughly chronological order and are grouped according to common compositional types: readers will thus be able to trace iconographic similarities by going through a series of adjacent entries and to distinguish period styles by browsing through larger blocks of entries. The book thus provides, in effect, a selective survey of middle-Byzantine painting. A surprisingly large number of Byzantine evangelists portraits remain unpublished: seventy-five of the miniatures reproduced in this volume have never appeared in print before.

A Bestiary Alphabet (Hardcover): Felix Eddy A Bestiary Alphabet (Hardcover)
Felix Eddy
R614 R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature - Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art (Hardcover, New): Begum OEzden Firat Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature - Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art (Hardcover, New)
Begum OEzden Firat
R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced. Begum Ozden Fyrat proposes instead a radical re-reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century miniatures in the light of contemporary critical theory, highlighting the viewer's encounter with the image. Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame/framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of miniature paintings. With analysis that illuminates both the social and political situations in which these miniatures were painted as well as emphasising the miniature's contemporary relevance, Firat presents an important new re-imagining of this art form.

Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art (Hardcover): Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art (Hardcover)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; Foreword by Roger Sworder
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Image, Knife, and Gluepot - Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Hardcover): Kathryn M. Rudy Image, Knife, and Gluepot - Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Hardcover)
Kathryn M. Rudy
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 4 - Wales (Hardcover): Gunter Endres,... Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 4 - Wales (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 3 - Central England (Hardcover): Gunter... Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 3 - Central England (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R1,298 R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Save R193 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 2 - Southern England (Hardcover): Gunter... Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 2 - Southern England (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 1 - Northern England (Hardcover): Gunter... Power and Protection - Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 1 - Northern England (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power (Hardcover): Jitske Jasperse Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power (Hardcover)
Jitske Jasperse
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Middle Ages - A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe, Starting from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Through the... The Middle Ages - A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe, Starting from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Through the Black Death to the Beginning of the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R718 R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Power and Piety - Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 3 - East Central England (Hardcover): Gunter Endres, Graham... Power and Piety - Monastic Houses of Medieval Britain - Volume 3 - East Central England (Hardcover)
Gunter Endres, Graham Hobster
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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