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

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

The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth ...

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries si...

ChristianIslamic encounters through religious arts, architecture, and material culture in the medieval eraThe coexistence of Christianity and Islam...

The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christs Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval an...

Author portraits are the most common type of figural illustration in Greek manuscripts. The vast majority of them depict the evangelists Matthew, M...

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historia...

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and med...

The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 4001100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost ev...

Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Wes...

A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship...