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TournamentThe tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to ancillary festivals it could extend it to several days. The...
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God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550Wandering dervishes formed a prominent feature of most Muslim communities well into the modern period, surviving in some regions even today. Shocking in appearance, behavior, and speech, these social misfits were revered by the public, yet denounced by cultural elites. /God's Unruly Friends/ is...
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Rockett St George: Extraordinary Interiors: Show-Stopping Looks for Unique InteriorsSelf-acknowledged 'design junkies' Lucy St George and Jane Rockett launched their online interiors store in 2007. Ten years on, Rockett St George has revitalized the interiors market with their quirky, glamorous and distinctive collections. Self-acknowledged 'design junkies' Lucy St George and Jane Rockett launched...
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A Short History of English Renaissance DramaShakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print...
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Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 1939-73An up-to-date and accessible introduction to Coventry's post-war buildings.Author: Jeremy Gould, Caroline GouldPublisher: Historic England in Association with LiverpooPublished: 04/30/2016Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.20h x 8.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781848022454About the AuthorJeremy Gould is an architect and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Plymouth University....
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Egypt in EnglandEgypt in England is the first detailed guide to the use of the Egyptian style in architecture and interiors in England. Fully illustrated, this engaging book is an accessible and practical guide for a general audience, but has enough depth to be useful to...
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A Fatal InheritanceMara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman's body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands...
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The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Arthur GibneyThis study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved?...
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Derek Jarman's Medieval ModernFirst exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work. FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the possible exception of...
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Medieval English Lyrics and CarolsA new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginning with the first lyrics in...
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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail CycleArthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest. The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the...
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Troubadour Poems from the South of FranceModern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. This collection aims to...
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War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy Under Edward III, 1327-1360A close study of the military and political strategies of Edward III and the Black Prince, whose great victories had by 1360 made England the foremost martial nation of Europe. Contemporaries considered Edward III of England "the wisest and shrewdest warrior in the world",...
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Warfare in Tenth-Century GermanyA complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto...
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Lancelot-Grail: 8. the Post Vulgate Cycle. the Merlin Continuation: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in TranslationThe Post-Vulgate Cycle reworks the Vulgate Cycle from the end of The Story of Merlin. The sequel opens with Arthur's unwitting incest with his sister, and his establishment, with Merlin's help, of his title to the kingdom. The story of the events leading up...
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The Wonder of the North: Fountains Abbey and Studley RoyalA history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed landscape in North Yorkshire. Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in 1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful...
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DecameronA new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men...
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The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, the Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe'West puts the battle in its historical context, and shows how it set the course of history for more than a thousand years.' Piers Paul Read732.The future of Europe is held in the balance.A Frankish force, assembled at speed, ready themselves to resist an...
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Robin Hood: A True LegendAuthor: Sean McGlynnPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 11/23/2018Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781790242535This title is not returnable
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The Mabinogion: The Red Book of Hergest - The Myths, Legends and Folk Stories of WalesThe Mabinogion consists of the earliest prose literature in Great Britain, the manuscripts of which originate in 12th century Welsh, with some dating earlier, to the oral tradition of the Middle Ages.Many of the stories in the Mabinogion would become famous anew thanks to...
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