History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural actio...

Mit dem früh verstorbenen Hayo Vierck verlor die jüngere deutsche Frühmittelalterforschung einen ihrer innovativsten Vertreter. In seiner bislang u...

Seitdem Bernhard Salin vor über 100 Jahren die frühmittelalterliche Tierornamentik der Germanen in drei zeitlich aufeinander folgende Stile I-III u...

Alison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, ...

Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-s...

In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalenes many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. I...

From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulch...

This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic ...

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifact...

The Tree and the Column examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most rec...

Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations ab...

In der Geschichte des geistlichen Liedes nehmen marianische Hymnen und Sequenzen eine zentrale Stellung ein. Neben die lateinische Dichtung, die li...

This study reveals how womens visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion. From the twelf...

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralone o...

The book deals with the issue of the approach to and treatment of Byzantine monuments during the first one hundred years of the Greek State (1833-1...

This volume explores the importance of Norwich as the second city of England for 500 years. It addresses two of the most ambitious Romanesque build...

This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at th...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers'...

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval ...