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

Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, father and son, are the most important makers of Italian Gothic sculpture. Their pulpits (1260 ?1311) in Pisa, Siena an...

The British Museum has one of the worlds finest collections of antiquities from medieval Europe, and this is the first fully illustrated guide to t...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-br...

Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England. Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the st...

The so-called chasuble of Thomas Becket (11181170) is one of the most magnificent medieval textiles in the Mediterranean region. Richly decorated w...

Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and t...

First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Mappae mundi (maps of the worl...

How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval worldThe Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for Wes...

Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations ...

The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and The Brother Haggad...