Search Results: Medieval Europe from KALAMOS BOOKS

Boston: Sandpiper / Houghton Mifflin, 1973 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. "Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century. The craftsmen were the master quarryman, the master stone cutter, the master sculptor, the master mortar maker, the master mason, the master carpenter, the master blacksmith, the master roofer, and the master glass maker" A stunningly illustrated book that well deserved to win the Caldecott Medal. Crisp, tight unmarked copy.[ 80p.] Illus (B & W).

Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S.Brewer, 2006 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. [Chaucer Studies Vol XXXVII] Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 Book. Fine. Soft cover. "As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first comprehensive study of how a great imperial ceremony actually developed and how it influenced both the eastern and western heirs to the Roman legacy, the Roman triumph's resurgence and afterlife is documented from the Tetrarchy to the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval West. This perspective shows that celebrations of the ruler's victory experienced unceasing change in ritual form and content and that these changes mirrored broader trends in the development of society and the monarchy. At the same time, it casts new light on the late Roman origins of the trappings of early medieval… Read More

Budapest: Corvina, 2009 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. Offprint of the "Annual of medieval studies at CEU" Volume 15, 2009. [Pages 171-365] Reports on research relating to Medieval Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia . Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine.194p.[6 copies found in WorldCat - None in N America].

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. ... illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. 254p. bibliography. index.

Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1984 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Pbk. 364p. illus.bibliography.index..

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1969 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. liii,614p. illus. bibliography. index. maps on end papers. Clean tight text block, name of previous owner on ffep.NOTE: A heavy volume [1.1 kg] , Spine slightly bruised ..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed. " In 1185, the 32-year- old Constance of Sicily, a princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe has ever seen, was betrothed to the 21-year-old Henry, cold-hearted son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Eight years later, the Sicilian throne lies empty and Henry and Constance (pregnant for the first time at 40) travel south to stake their claim against the usurper Tancredi's family. It is this journey that Taylor Simeti retraces, along the way contrasting medieval society with modern, capturing what the life of the medieval queen must have been like, exploring the idea of travel and pilgrimage, and expressing, above all, a deep empathy for her subject. " 319p. illus (some col.) bibliography..

Rothbury: Butler Publishing, 1989 Book. Illus. by Philip Marshall. As New. Pbk.. 1st UK Edition.. "This is the story of the rise & fall of Northumbria - it spans the centuries between the departure of the Roman legions & the arrival of the conquering Normans - this is a time that sees the arrival of Christianity, but a time, too, that sees violence, battle & bloodshed, mayhem & murder, torture & treachery - Northumbria was indeed a violent Kingdom".72p. Maps by Al Pearson..