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Runes(2014) FINDELL, MARTINRunes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to tVezava: Mehka13,88 €
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Almoravid and Almohad Empires(2016) BENNISON, AMIRA K.A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North Africa.Vezava: Mehka46,28 €
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages(2009) DYER, CHRISTOPHERDramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. This book presents a fresh view of the British economy frVezava: Mehka33,06 €
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Practice of Penance, 900-1050(2011) HAMILTON, SARAHPenitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources.Vezava: Mehka48,79 €
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Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century(2012)Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period.Vezava: Mehka43,28 €
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Christ in Celtic Christianity(2012) HERREN, EMERITUS PROFESSOR MICHAEL W. (ROYALTY ACCOUNT),BROWN, SHIRLEY ANN (ROYALTY ACCOUNT)A new interpretation of Celtic Christianity, supported by images of Christ taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture, and showing how it departed from continental practice largely due to a differing perception and application of Pelagianism.Vezava: Mehka52,70 €
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Christians and Jews in Angevin England(2016)The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.Vezava: Mehka56,60 €
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Medieval Rural Settlement(2021) CHRISTIE, NEIL,STAMPER, PAULA major assessment of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland.Vezava: Mehka41,92 €
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Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara – A Fifteenth–Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics(2022) SAVONAROLA, MICHELE,ZUCCOLIN, GABRIELLA,MARAFIOTI, MARTINVezava: Mehka74,63 €
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Rebel Angels(2021) FITZGERALD, JILL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to exprVezava: Mehka51,68 €
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Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England(2022) HUGHES, DR JONATHAN (UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK)Vezava: Mehka38,57 €
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All Men Must Die(2021) LARRINGTON, CAROLYNE (OFFICIAL FELLOW AND TUTOR IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE. PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK)'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered into High Valyrian. And die they do - in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome ways; and often in pain, terror and ordure within the blood-spatteredVezava: Mehka29,27 €
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God's Exiles and English Verse(2022) NILES, JOHN D.This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts,Vezava: Mehka43,07 €
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