Search Results: Medieval History from Ancient World Books

Fordham University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Paperback. 0823211185 . Light wear to corners with light creasing to corners of front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 270 pages .

London: Guild Publishing Corp.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. Not First Edition. Hardcover. Has remainder mark (permanent marker line on bottom text block). Mild Shelfwear. ; Over 200 Illustrations in colour and black and white, with background notes, maps and commentary. Oversize. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0521332028 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving very light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume - traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and (surprisingly, no doubt, to some) a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three recent discoveries augments our corpus of manuscript evidence. The nature of Old English poetry is illuminated - as a variety of oral expression and as exemplified in a particular poet's treatment of a particular Latin source. A useful summary of the… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0521802105 . Dustjacket has a few tears along top of book. General edgewear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 30 includes: Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface; The illness of King Alfred the Great; The social context of narrative disruption in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College; 23 Psychomachia; Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts; Bibliography for 2000.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 30; 374 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0521790719 . Corners lightly bumped. General shelfwear. ; Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 29 includes: The archetype of Beowulf; Genesis A and the Anglo-Saxon "migration myth"; The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context; The "robed Christ" in pre-Conquest sculptures of the Crucifixion; Aethelweard's Chronicon and Old English poetry; Aelfric's Preface to Genesis genre, rhetoric and the origins of the ars dictaminis; Cnut and Lotharingia: two notes; Bibliography for 1999.; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 29; 368 pages .

SPA, in Conjunction With L. Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 1854211978 . Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; 9.2 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 290 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0521085578 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and call numbers. Pocket has been removed. Withdrawn stamps on textblock as well. Call-numbers from spine have been removed leaving light damage to cloth. Bumping to bottom and top of spine. Former price on fly-page has been whited-out. Ask for pictures! ; Keywords from the Contents: pre-Viking Age church in East anglia; Old english Orosius and latin texts; Origin of Standard Old English and Aethelwold's school; Beowulf; Andreas; Exodus and treasure of Pharaoh; vision of paradise: Old English Phoenix; Jonah story: narrative technique in Old English homilies; manuscript of Leiden riddle; northumbria and Book of Kells; Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor; Anglo-Saxon house. ; Anglo-Saxon England; Vol. 1; 344 pages .

Columbia University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. A few pencil notes or markings in margins. Spine has been crudely repaired with black library tape. Edgewear to boards. A few pages are torn but still intact in text. ; Records of Civilization Sources and Studies; The life of Usamah ibn-Munqidh epitomized the height of Arab civilization as it flourished during the early Crusading period. His memoirs provide a valuable non-European perspective and insight into the military and cultural contact between medieval West and East, between Christian and Muslim. .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. 0195062418 . Minor wear to corners of wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Concentrating on land warfare, distinguished U. S. Military historian Jones argues that most military events can be explained by military factors. The framework of his analysis is strategy, which Jones sees as remaining consistent for 2500 years. When applied, however, strategy becomes dependent on tactics and logistics. These in turn are constantly modified by technology. The result is an ever-changing dialectic of options that continues to make war a viable political option even in the nuclear age. ; 740 pages .

Burgverlag. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Stamp to ffep. Book has shelfwear and rubbing. Minor edgewear to spine ends. ; Der Sammlung Orbis Historicus, Band 1; Vol. 1; 159 pages .

University of California Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0520065506 . Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron offers a vital, new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the… Read More

University of California Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0520065506 . Upper corner slightly bumped. ; With a contribution by Lee Sherry. Signed by one author on inner cover: "For Dirk from Alan" ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 441 pages; The chaotic events of A. D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron offers a vital, new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman empire… Read More

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Near Fine. 2011. Softcover. 1876503300 . Faint crease. Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina… Read More

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Fine. 2011. Softcover. 1876503300 . Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 17; 266 pages; 18 essays, 266 pages… Read More

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Near Fine. 2011. Softcover. 1876503300 . Faint crease to lower edge of front wrap. Else fine. ; Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.… Read More

Oxford University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0198222602 . 2002 reprint of 1987 edition. ; Oxford Medieval Texts; 1.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 500 pages; This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English religious Order of the Middle Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert. The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so disappeared at the Reformation. .

University. Fine. 2000. Softcover. 1876503068 . Still wrapped in plastic. ; Hese nineteen papers are invaluable to anyone interested in the Macedonian heritage or in the economy, administration, history and representation of Macedonia during the course of the Byzantine empire. ; Byzantina Australiensia; 231 pages; Angeliki Laiou: Thessaloniki and Macedonia in the Byzantine Period; Johannes Koder: Macedonians and Macedonia in Byzantine Spatial Thinking; Ioannis Tarnanidis: The Macedonians of the Byzantine Period; Johannes Irmscher: The Image of Macedonia As Found in Byzantine Historians; Andreas Schminck: The Beginnings and Origins of the 'Macedonian' Dynasty; Dion Smythe: Macedonians in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantine Historiography; Apostolos Karpozilos: Macedonia as Reflected in the Epistolography of the Fourteenth Century; Martha Grigoriou-Ioannidou: The "kaq' huaV glwssa" in the Mauros' and Kuober's Episode (Miracula S. Demetrii 291) ; Dionyssia… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0297778218 . DJ has light edgewear with a few small tears along top edge. ; 224 pages; This volume describes the story of Byzantine civilization after the definitive triumph of Christianity in AD 500 and concludes with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. .

University; [Distributed By J. J.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Textblock has small stains to foreedges. Very light wear to a few corners. Else book is fine. DJ spine is sunned. DJ has light shelfwear and rubbing now protected in mylar. ; Traces all members of the ancient Byzantine house of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) in the period between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries AD. ; Dumbarton Oaks Studies; 265 pages .

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Fine. 1981. Softcover. 0867840099 . Contents: John Moorhead Thoughts on Some Early Medieval Miracles; Roger Scott Malalas and Justinian's Codification; Jenny Ferber Theophanes' Account of the Reign of Heraclius; Ahmad Shboul Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature; Margaret Riddle Illustrations of the 'Triumph' of Joseph the Patriarch; Leslie Rogers Anglo-Saxons and Icelanders at Byzantium, with Special Reference to the Icelandic Saga of St. Edward the Confessor; Sasha Grishin Literary Evidence for the Dating of the Backovo Ossuary Frescoes; Michael Jeffreys The Vernacular eisithrioi for Agnes of France; Elizabeth Jeffreys The Later Greek Verse Romances: A Survey; E. J. Stormon Bessarion Before the Council of Florence: A Survey of His Early Writings (1423-1437) ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 1.; 156 pages .