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

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

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 ...

Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upo...

Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu is a Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Studies. She teaches and researches in the fields of Byzantine culture (Philosophy, ...

This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and origin...

Das Buch begleitet durch die im Ostflügel des Dresdener Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung, die mit fürstlichen Prunkwaffen, Herrsche...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...

A fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on art as an aesthetic vehicle and art as an active political force. Two particular ...

The Dominican Order is generally considered the preeminent monastic order of the medieval era, not only for its intellectual tradition but also for...

Die Entstehung der Ekphrasis als ästhetische Kategorie der Renaissance steht unter dem Einfluss der antiken Schulrhetorik und der literarischen Tra...

Das Herrscherbild des Mittelalters ist nicht bloß Quelle politischer Geschichte, es zählt zu ihren Akteuren. Dies aufzuzeigen, werden Hauptwerke de...

Der Würzburger Fürstbischof Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (15451617) setzte um 1600 seiner höfischen Repräsentation bis zu 300 Sakralbauten an die ...

A leading authority on the Bayeux Tapestry examines the work frame by frame in this profusely illustrated and annotated volume. The Bayeux Tapestr...

Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile, text, and inte...

A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral...