History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400
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Art: A Visual History
Robert CummingCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide of...
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The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DKCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tric...
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Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran
Yuka KadoiCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural actio...
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Wieland der Schmied und Schamane?: Ein Schmiedeheld und Halbgott im Spiegel skandinavischer und angelsächsischer Bilddenkmäler
Beth StallwoodCurrent price €101.78Original price €116.99Mit dem früh verstorbenen Hayo Vierck verlor die jüngere deutsche Frühmittelalterforschung einen ihrer innovativsten Vertreter. In seiner bislang u...
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Der Tierstil II im Merowingerreich
Frank BehrensCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Seitdem Bernhard Salin vor über 100 Jahren die frühmittelalterliche Tierornamentik der Germanen in drei zeitlich aufeinander folgende Stile I-III u...
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Studies in Arthurian Illustration Vol I
Alison StonesCurrent price €142.67Original price €163.99Alison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, ...
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Lombard Legacy: Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Italy
John MitchellCurrent price €142.67Original price €163.99Using 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...
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A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of ''Abbas Ibn Firnas
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...
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Mary Magdalene: A Visual History
Emerita Professor Diane Apostolos-CappadonaCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalenes many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. I...
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Tomb Memory Space: Concepts of Representation in Premodern Christian and Islamic Art
De GruyterCurrent price €59.99Original price €74.99From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulch...
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Byzantine Materiality
De GruyterCurrent price €76.79Original price €95.99This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic ...
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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms
Jessica BrantleyCurrent price €62.63Original price €71.99In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifact...
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The Tree and the Column: The Bronze Door of Hildesheim
Isabelle MarchesinCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50The 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...
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Image & Altar 800-1300: Papers from an International Conference in Copenhagen 24 October-27 October 2007
Richard MorganCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Ringil Eskiath, scarred wielder of the kiriath-forged broadsword Ravensfriend, is a man on the run - from his past and the family who have disowned...
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The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle
Elizabeth SearsCurrent price €49.20Original price €61.50Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations ab...
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Maria in Hymnus und Sequenz: Interdisziplinäre mediävistische Perspektiven
De GruyterCurrent price €87.86Original price €100.99In der Geschichte des geistlichen Liedes nehmen marianische Hymnen und Sequenzen eine zentrale Stellung ein. Neben die lateinische Dichtung, die li...
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Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text
Barbara ZimbalistCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99This study reveals how womens visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion. From the twelf...
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Toledo Cathedral: Building Histories in Medieval Castile
Tom NicksonCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralone o...
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Ta Bizantina mnimia sti neoteri ellada: Greek language text
Eleni-Anna ChlepaCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99The 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...
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Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Norwich
Sandy HeslopCurrent price €66.11Original price €75.99This volume explores the importance of Norwich as the second city of England for 500 years. It addresses two of the most ambitious Romanesque build...
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Mosaics of Thessaloniki (English language edition): 4th to 14th Century
Charalambos BakirtzisCurrent price €88.73Original price €101.99This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at th...
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €138.32Original price €158.99The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the...
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Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
Janina RamirezCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers'...
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The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400 1420
Hendrik DeyCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval ...
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Rome and Religion in the Medieval World: Studies in Honor of Thomas F.X. Noble
Owen M. PhelanCurrent price €89.60Original price €102.99Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upo...
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Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval Hindu-Muslim Encounter
Finbarr FloodCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...
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Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato
Elena Ene D-VasilescuCurrent price €22.80Original price €28.50Elena Ene D-Vasilescu is a Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Studies. She teaches and researches in the fields of Byzantine culture (Philosophy, ...
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The McCarthy Collection: Sculpture
Charles T. LittleCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and origin...
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Auf dem Weg zur Kurfürstenmacht Meisterwerke: Rüstkammer im Residenzschloss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Jutta Charlotte von BlohCurrent price €21.20Original price €26.50Das Buch begleitet durch die im Ostflügel des Dresdener Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung, die mit fürstlichen Prunkwaffen, Herrsche...
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The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787)
Richard PriceCurrent price €131.36Original price €150.99Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...
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The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain
Museo Nacional del PradoCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99Current price €44.36Original price €50.99Save 13% -
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
Catherine E. KarkovCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50A 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 ...
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Die deutschen Dominikaner und Dominikanerinnen im Mittelalter
De GruyterCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99The Dominican Order is generally considered the preeminent monastic order of the medieval era, not only for its intellectual tradition but also for...
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Renaissance der Ekphrasis Ekphrasis der Renaissance: Transformationen einer einflussreichen ästhetischen Kategorie in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft
Jesús Muñoz MorcilloCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99Die Entstehung der Ekphrasis als ästhetische Kategorie der Renaissance steht unter dem Einfluss der antiken Schulrhetorik und der literarischen Tra...
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Herrscherbild und Fürstenspiegel: Eine ikonische Politologie
Johannes von MüllerCurrent price €61.59Original price €76.99Das Herrscherbild des Mittelalters ist nicht bloß Quelle politischer Geschichte, es zählt zu ihren Akteuren. Dies aufzuzeigen, werden Hauptwerke de...
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Echters Werte: Zur Bedeutung der nachgotischen Baukultur um 1600 unter Fürstbischof Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn
De GruyterCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Der Würzburger Fürstbischof Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (15451617) setzte um 1600 seiner höfischen Repräsentation bis zu 300 Sakralbauten an die ...
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The Bayeux Tapestry
Lucien MussetCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99A leading authority on the Bayeux Tapestry examines the work frame by frame in this profusely illustrated and annotated volume. The Bayeux Tapestr...
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Shaping Knowledge: The Transmission of the ''Liber Floridus''
Hanna VorholtCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99Current price €63.50Original price €72.99Save 13% -
Ernst Kitzinger and the Making of Medieval Art History
University of LondonCurrent price €52.19Original price €59.99Current price €52.19Original price €59.99Save 13% -
Textiles, Text, Intertext: Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile, text, and inte...
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Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
Laura CleaverCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral...
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Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages. Often fragmented and without context, early medieval ...
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The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
Elizabeth Carson PastanCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99A full and provocative reappraisal of the Bayeux Tapestry, its origins, design and patronage. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroider...
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The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts: The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Jennifer Awes FreemanCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99A fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its contexts. The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain prove...
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Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia
Catherine E. KarkovCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99A fresh approach to the construction of Anglo-Saxon England and its depiction in art and writing. This book explores the ways in which early medie...
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Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion
John MunnsCurrent price €29.20Original price €36.50An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth centu...
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Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam
Margaret S. GravesCurrent price €80.90Original price €92.99The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and othe...
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Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium
Bissera V. PentchevaCurrent price €47.84Original price €54.99The Virgin Mary embodied power rather than maternal tenderness in the Byzantine world. Known as the Mother of God, she became a guarantor of milita...
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