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Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with
discussion of date, technology, decoration and function. Knives
were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the
domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian
burials bear silent witness to this dependence in the many cases
where knives are found among the grave-goods. Forged and hafted
with great skill, sometimes with elaborately decorated scabbards,
knives are of intrinsic fascination, besides being indicators of
the popular artistic tastes of the time. This book catalogues,
discusses and illustrates over five hundred knives, scabbards,
shears and scissors dating from the mid-12th to the mid-15th
centuries and found in the City of London, particularly along the
waterfront sites, where recovered items can be accurately dated by
dendrochronology and coin finds. It is a fundamental work of
reference for medieval artefacts and material culture, an essential
handbook for excavators all over Britain and much of Europe. JANE
COWGILL, MARGRETHE DE NEERGAARDE and NICK GRIFFITHS are former
members of the staff of the Museum of London.
In 2010, Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J Vilsack directed the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Tribal Relations
and the USDA's Forest Service to engage in a dialogue with American
Indians and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribal leaders to find out how
the USDA can do a better job of accommodating and protecting AI/AN
sacred sites while simultaneously pursuing the Forest Service's
multiple-use mission. Secretary Vilsack requested information about
unintended consequences of land management decisions affecting
sacred sites and AI/AN communities whose cultural survival is often
deeply rooted in these sites. This book examines the effectiveness
of existing laws and regulation in ensuring a consistent level of
sacred site protection that is more acceptable to tribes.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT103006London: printed by W. Wilkins, for W.
Hinchliffe, 1717. 2],29, 1]p.; 2
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