Medieval & Viking
EAA 11: A Medieval Moated Settlement and Windmill Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781852812232
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2003
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Description:
An enclosed settlement of 12th- to 13th-century date was excavated in advance of gravel extraction at a former airfield near Chelmsford in Essex. Several timber buildings, interpreted as a house, outbuildings, a granary and an early form of windmill, were recorded within a large rectangular moat. The physical evidence for the windmill is of significance, especially as it was found within the context of a settlement, rather than as an isolated structure.
Hjortspring Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 293
ISBN: 9788785180520
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2003
Series: Ships & Boats of the North
Description:
The Hjortsping boat, fully excavated in the 1920s, is arguably the most important archaeological find from early Iron Age Scandinavia. This volume forms the first English-language analysis of the find and its context, beginning with the background to the discovery and excavation of the warship and its new display at the centre of a special exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen. Illustrated throughout with photographs, many in colour, and drawings of each part of the warship and its associated finds, this is an extremely well-presented study.
Yr Hen Iaith Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781891271106
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2003
Imprint: Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Centre for Hellenistic Studies Colloquia
Illustrations: maps
Description:
A collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- ( Peter Schrijver ); Rowynniauc , Rhufoniog : the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh ( Paul Russell ); Old English literacy and the provenance of Welsh y ( Peter Kitson ); Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their implications for dating texts ( Simon Rodway ); The structure and typology of prepositional relative clauses in Early Welsh ( Graham Isaac ); The dry point glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior ( Alexander Falileyev and Paul Russell ); The Old Welsh glosses on Weights and Measures ( Pierre-Yves Lambert ); Marwnad Cunedda a diwedd y Brydain Rufeinig ( John T Koch ); Are there elements of non-standard language in the work of the Gogynfeirdd? ( Peter Busse ); The Progressive in Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn ( Erich Poppe ).
RRP: £25.00
The Celtic Heroic Age Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9781891271090
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2003
Imprint: Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Illustrations: 4 maps
Description:
A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both the well known Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero - and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh.
Through a Glass Brightly Cover Through a Glass Brightly Cover
Format: 
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781842170908
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2003
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w figs, 60 col phls
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781785702518
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.

Catalogue of German Printed Books to 1900 in the British Museum

Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780714126302
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2003
Illustrations: 12 b/w illus
Description:
This catalogue describes in detail the collection of German printed books held by the British Museum. Five centuries of illustrated books are represented, by far the most numerous and interesting being those of the sixteenth century. The collection includes the work of many German artists, from the great, Albrecht Duerer, to lesser and anonymous figures, whose illustrative and decorative work in printed books can be studied alongside the Department's superb collections of German prints and drawings.
RRP: £90.00
Boats of the Viking Ship Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9788785180636
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2002
EAA 101: Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9780905594347
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2002
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 1 col and 5 b/w pls, 26 b/w illus
Description:
This volume discusses and catalogues all examples of armorial devices from horse furniture known from the Norfolk SMR. In what is a vaulable reference tool for archaeologists and military historians alike, the volume presents all manner of 12th- to 14th-century pendants, studs, mounts and badges which depict geometric patterns, animals, buildings, plants, humans, monsters and everyday items. Fine line drawings illustrate 246 objects.
EAA 102: Baconsthorpe Castle, Excavations and Finds, 1951-1972 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 115
ISBN: 9780905594361
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2002
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 28 b/w pls, 50 b/w figs, 6 tbs
Description:
The enigmatic remains of Baconsthorpe Castle in north-east Norfolk belie the story of a very grand fortified manor house. Owned by the Heydon family from the early 15th to the late 17th century, the house once comprised an inner moated enclosure, an outer court and gatehouse, a barn, mere and gardens and park. This report outlines the history of Baconsthorpe based on documentary and iconographic evidence, and archaeological investigations of the 1950s and, especially, the excavations of 1972.
RRP: £17.50
The Skuldelev Ships I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9788785180469
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Series: Ships & Boats of the North

In Harvey's House and in God's House

Format: Paperback
Pages: 46
ISBN: 9780904220100
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2002
Illustrations: with 18 figs & 5 illus.
Description:
This volume brings together the results of two evaluation and excavation projects undertaken by Oxford Archaeological Unit at Eynsham Abbey between 1991 and 1993. It reports on the medieval moated site and associated fishponds, the late Anglo-Saxon/medieval abbey, and finds, together with discussion.
Chronicle of Alfonso X Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813122182
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2002
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Description:
Alfonso X (1221--1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, and chronicles of all the kings of Castile and León, Navarre, Aragón, and Portugal.

Album of Armenian Paleography

Format: Hardback
Pages: 554
ISBN: 9788772885568
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2002
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Provides a comprehensive selection of some 200 definitively dated, hand-written texts, sampled from among the 30,000 manuscripts preserved in the major public collections of Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and North America. Selected specimen pages from these manuscripts are presented in chronological order, and span the period from AD 862 to 1911. Each text is illustrated by a high-quality colour facsimile of a typical page, and is accompanied by an alphabet table for the folio in question and a sample transcription.
Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 293
ISBN: 9781842170588
Pub Date: 18 Jan 2002
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w figs and pls throughout, 22 col pls
Description:
The twenty-five papers, taken from a Cardiff conference in 1998, are concerned with Insular art in its broadest sense, encompassing studies of metalwork, manuscripts, sculpture and textiles, both recent discoveries and new investigations of well-known objects. They include material associated with Anglo-Saxon England as well as early Medieval Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and discoveries of Insular metalwork in Scandinavia. They are divided into five themes which reflect the many recent advances in the study of Insular art.
EAA 96: Two Medieval Churches in Norfolk Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780905594330
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2001
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 59 b/w figs, 31 b/w pls, fiche
Description:
Reports of two church excavations, St Martin-at-Palace, Norwich and St Michael, Bowthorpe, undertaken prior to their re-building and re-use. The reports cover the earliest evidence for occupation of the site and the phases of re-building, repair and ruin (in the case of St Michael's) from the Anglo-Saxon period through to their present state.
RRP: £13.00
Ladby Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 293
ISBN: 9788785180445
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Series: Ships & Boats of the North