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

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The essays collected here continue the Journal's w...

This book examines the multi-media art patronage of three generations of the Tornabuoni family, who commissioned works from innovative artists, suc...

The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. The...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassi...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassi...

This book tells the history of Herat, from its desolation under Chingiz Khan in 1222, to its capitulation to Tamerlane in 1381. Unlike the other th...

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with imagesicons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and comm...

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...

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...

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...