Search Results: Mediaeval History from Wykeham Books

Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, London, 1970 reprint of 1942 edition. . Cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 23 cm,. lviii, 106 pp. The manuscripts used for this edition are named as follows:; (1) A = British Museum, MS. Cotton Tiberius A. III.*; (2) B = British Museum, MS. Cotton Tiberius B.V.; (3) C = Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. 367.; (4) D = British Museum, MS. Cotton Titus D. XXVII.; (5) E = British Museum, MS. Cotton Caligula A. XV. First Text.; (6) F = British Museum, MS. Cotton Caligula A. XV. Second Text.; (7) G = University Library, Cambridge, MS. Gg. 3. 28.; (8) H = Vatican Library, MS. Reginense Lat. 1283. Text in Anglo-Saxon, with Latin sources and parallels. Latin text with notes in English. Contents: Old English text (based on a manuscript in Cambridge University Library) with "Sources and parallels" printed on opposite pages. Near Fine.

Book Club Associates, London, 1986 reprint edition. Cloth, large 4to,. 240 pp, ills, plates. Front board sunned at top, otherwise Very Good in a dustwrapper with a 2 inch tear on the rear panel.

Supreme Council, A.A.S.R., Bloomington, first edition, 1987. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 191 pp. Brief biographies of 38 historical figures mentioned in Masonic rites, from Agrippa via Aristotle, Attila, Saint Augustine, Buddha, Confucius, Justinian, Mohammed, Plato, Zoroaster and others to Zoser. The biographies aim to draw out the significance of the character's teaching or example to the daily life of Masons. Slight mark to front board, otherwise Very Good.

Boydell Press, Woodbridge, first edition, 1984. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xiii, 227 pp, plates (115 ills). Slight yellowing to endpapers, a review copy with pencilled notes for the review in the margins, Good. Publisher's slip inviting review laid in.

B. de Graaf, Nieuwkoop, 1966 reprint of 1928 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xix, 324 pp. 1201 entries. A little duststained, otherwise Good.

Martino Publishing, undated [c.2000] reprint of 1928 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xix.324 pp. 1201 entries. From the publisher's description: "The Knights Templar were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land. Never before had a group of secular knights banded together and taken monastic vows. In this sense they were the first of the Warrior Monks. In November of 1095 Pope Urban II in a field in Clermont Ferrand launched the First Crusade. The myths and legends surrounding this gathering are probably as great as those surrounding the Knights Templar themselves or the legendary Knights of Camelot. The Knights Templar were without a doubt the single most influential and powerful of the religious military orders that sprang up as a result of the crusades. Although younger than their rivals The Order of the Hospital, as a monastic institution, the Templars were the first to add a military face to… Read More

Gregg International, Westmead, 1970 reprint of 1687 edition. . Cloth, folio, 33 cm,. [16], 548, [1], [12], 191 pp. Facsimile reprint of the second edition of Archbishop Ussher's monumental history of Christianity in Britain. Top edge duststained, rear hinge a little pulled, otherwise Very Good.

Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, London, 1968 reprint of the 1870-1889 edition.. 2 vols, cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 23 cm,. ciii, 256 + [1], 257-783, [1] pp, [8] pp ads. Near Fine.

Helicon, Oxford, 1994 reprint of 1973 first edition. Cloth, 4to,. 705 pp. The Middle Ages saw the creation in Europe of a wealthy and dynamic Christian civilisation that subsequently spread around the world, cathedrals and parish churches were rebuilt; castles replaced wooden halls; houses of religious men and women sprang up throughout the continent; universities were founded; over 4,000 new towns were laid out. In the same period the Islamic world extended its borders and China made outstanding technological and economic advances. The Chronology provides a comprehensive and detailed guide to these developments and many more. Arranged in a year-by-year sequence, the Chronology presents two parallel sets of information: first, a detailed listing of political, military and diplomatic events; second, information on a broad range of themes - Science, Technology, Religion, Education, Art, Architecture, Law, Economics, Music, Literature, Philosophy, Scholarship, and Births and Deaths. This original… Read More

Helicon, Oxford, 1995 reprint of 1994 reissue. Cloth, 4to,. xii, 705 pp. From the blurb: "The Middle Ages saw the creation in Europe of a wealthy and dynamic Christian civilisation that subsequently spread around the world. Cathedrals and parish churches were rebuilt; castles replaced wooden halls; houses of religious men and women sprang up throughout the continent; universities were founded; over 4,000 new towns were laid out. In the same period the Islamic world extended its borders and China made outstanding technological and economic advances. The Chronology provides a comprehensive and detailed guide to these developments and many more. Arranged in a year-by-year sequence, the Chronology presents two parallel sets of information: first, a detailed listing of political, military and diplomatic events; second, information on a broad range of themes - Science, Technology, Religion, Education, Art, Architecture, Law, Economics, Music, Literature, Philosophy, Scholarship, and Births and… Read More

Gregg International Publishers Ltd, Farnborough, 1970 facsimile reprint of the 1642-1659 edition. 4 vols, cloth, title-pages printed in red and black, large 8vo, 33 cm,. [32], 528, [130] + [4], 550, 52, [119] + [42], 578, 38, [130] = [34], 742, 180 pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1642-1659 edition published by G. Boissat & Laurent. Anisson, Leyden. A Very Good set save for some rubbing to the boards of Volume I and some minor colour variation on the boards.

Tempus, Stroud, second edition, 2000. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 224 pp, ills, plates. Very Good.

AMS Press Inc., New York, first edition, 1982. Cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 268 pp. From the translator's preface: "The book is concerned primarily with knighthood in Germany, and most of the evidence is drawn from German documents and German literature, but there is frequent comparison with knighthood in other countries, particularly in France. The author's object is to establish what contemporaries understood by knighthood in a political, social, and even moral sense; he does not concern himself with the often fanciful ideas of knighthood held by authors of the later Middle Ages and by writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To this end he has drawn heavily on legal documents of the period, but much of the evidence is derived from literary sources." Contents include: Translator's Preface; I Introduction; II The Word "Ritter": Its Age and Form; III The Knight as Soldier; IV The Knight as Retainer; V The Noble Knights; VI The… Read More

Harvester Press, Hassocks, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 8vo,. 575 pp. The Continental Renaissance, 1500-1600 is concerned with the century of Ronsard and Ariosto, Rabelais and Machiavelli, Erasmus, Luther and Calvin. It was a period in which new ideas and new forms in art burgeoned to an unprecedented extent, and in which the modern world began to take recognizable shape. Nevertheless, the world of the sixteenth century is remote from ours in many ways and its literature cannot be fully understood unless the reader knows something of its historical background and of the climate of ideas in which it was produced. This information the volume is designed to supply. It is divided into six main sections: The Cultural and Historical Background, Poetry, Drama, Prose Fiction, The Literature of Ideas and Manners, and Popular Literature." - from the blurb. Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.

Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1987- 1990, first edition thus. Limited edition of 1000 sets. 3 vols, cloth-backed boards, 41 cm,. Facsimile volume + viii, 72 pp and translation + x, 179 pp. A beautifully produced set of three volumes comprising the County Edition of Domesday Book for Cornwall. Volume 1 ("Folios and Maps" comprises a high-quality colour facsimile of the original Cornwall section of Domesday Book (Folios 120-125), with a fold-out map of Domesday England and a large scale map of Cornwall which has Domesday sites plotted over the modern topography. Volume 2 is a new English translation structured so that each phrase and sentence is perfectly juxtaposed in precisely the same position on each page as the scribe's words. This volume includes a complete introduction to the Cornwall section of Domesday Book, as well as indexes of people and places. Volume 3: Domesday Studies, is the commentary volume on Domesday Book as a whole, telling the story of how and why Domesday… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1956. Cloth, 8vo,. xi, 272, 8 plates, 3 maps, 6 plans. From the blurb: "This book is the first to attempt in such detail the appreciation of a feudal society organized for war, and to record the abilities shown by the knights and their leaders in military operations. Dr Smail writes on these topics: Historians of Crusading warfare; Warfare and policy in Latin Syria; Franks, Armenians and Syrians; The Muslim armies; The Latin armies; The Latin field army in action; The Crusaders' castles. It is not military history in the narrow sense; Dr Smail shows that 'the study of warfare and that of political and social organization illuminate and complete each other'. Looking at the political and social institutions of the crusaders' states in connexion with their warfare, he adds to our knowledge of Frankish society. The long last chapter on the crusaders' castles will have a particularly wide appeal. It is illustrated by plans of… Read More

Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano, offprint, 1951. Printed wrappers, large 8vo,. [167] - 201 pp. Presentation inscription initialled by the author on front wrapper. Front wrapper slightly torn, otherwise Good.

Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1987- 1990, first edition thus. Limited edition of 1000 sets. 3 vols, cloth-backed boards, 41 cm,. Facsimile volume + viii, 72 pp and translation + x, 179 pp. A beautifully produced set of three volumes comprising the County Edition of Domesday Book for Devonshire. Volume 1 ("Folios and Maps" comprises a high-quality colour facsimile of the original Devonshire section of Domesday Book (Folios 100-118), with a fold-out map of Domesday England and a large scale map of Devonshire which has Domesday sites plotted over the modern topography. Volume 2 is a new English translation structured so that each phrase and sentence is perfectly juxtaposed in precisely the same position on each page as the scribe's words. This volume includes a complete introduction to the Devonshire section of Domesday Book, as well as indexes of people and places. Volume 3: Domesday Studies, is the commentary volume on Domesday Book as a whole, telling the story of how and why… Read More

Cornell University Press, Ithaca, first edition, 1977. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xii, 396 pp, [4] leaves of plates. From the blurb: "This distinguished and erudite work deals exhaustively with a number of important questions concerning the authorship and origins of the Libri Carolini, the greatest literary and theologico-political document of the Carolingian age. The book consists of sixteen historical, philological, and palaeographical studies that deal with two major problems confronting Charlemagne in the late eighth century. The first problem was the decree of the Council of II Nicaea of 787 reestablishing the worship of images, a decision rejected by Charlemagne through the Libri Carolini (which Professor Wallach regards as a work written by the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin for the Frankish king). The other problem was his relationship to the papacy at Rome, which led, finally, to his being recognized as the Emperor of the Latin West in 800. Professor Wallach divides his book into four parts. The first… Read More

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, Ltd, London, first edition, 1937. Cloth, 8vo,. ix, 243 pp. Good with amusing inscriptions on the front free endpaper from previous owners. Pencil notes.