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By: Christopher de Hamel
ISBN: 9781851244683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Based mainly on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages to the high Renaissance. Each stage of production is described, from the preparation of the parchment, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the illumination of the manuscript.
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By: Ian Mortimer
ISBN: 9781529920802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Eleanor Jackson
ISBN: 9780712355902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Through a selection of detailed expert essays and some 40 spotlight studies, Medieval Womenreveals a rich and complex picture of their world, full of colourful characters and intriguing stories. This title accompanies the British Library Exhibition and showcases incredible items from the Library's archive and major European collections.
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By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780349119724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000
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By: Martin Heale
ISBN: 9780719071751
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation. -- .
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By: Hetta Howes
ISBN: 9781399420082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Hetta Howes
ISBN: 9781399408738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781789543544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9781784701888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9781910702123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9781784701864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9781784701871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Judith Herrin
ISBN: 9780241954454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9780571340255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new edition of the fascinating exploration of the people and events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, previously published in Faber Finds.
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By: Helen Castor
ISBN: 9780571237067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The fascinating story of how royal power came to lie in female hands for the first time under the Tudor queens - and of the four women who came before them who, whilst never reigning monarchs, held great power.
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By: Anders Winroth
ISBN: 9780691169293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing
(Hardback)
By: Yannis Hadjinicolaou
ISBN: 9781789149104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A beautifully illustrated account of medieval falconry, both in the East and West.
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By: Charles Freeman
ISBN: 9781789545630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later.
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By: Bart Van Loo
ISBN: 9781789543445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction.
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By: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780140445343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism.
(Hardback)
By: Helen Castor
ISBN: 9780241419328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Katherine Harvey
ISBN: 9781789144895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th October 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Max Adams
ISBN: 9781788543484
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.
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By: Bruce de Mesquita
ISBN: 9781541774391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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In the tradition of Sapiens and Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world
