European History

Ernest Warlop. The Flemish Nobility before 1300.

by Ernest Warlop.

$ 250.00

Ernest Warlop. The Flemish Nobility before 1300. Desmet-Huysman: Belgium 1975. Hardcover in DJ 4 volumes Hardcover in dj in slipcases. Very Good/Very Good/Good slipcases, dusty. Quarto 1332 pp total.  60 monochrome  plates. 16 tipped in color plates. 250 monochrome illus of medieval seals. Alphabetical descriptions of 237 noble families from the 9th-13th century. Volumes 3 and 4 are a catalogue of seals of Flemish nobility. Revised and completed translation of original Dutch translation.

“This comprehensive treatise, based on Dr Warlop’s doctoral dissertation, has been translated by Professors JB Ross and H Vandermoere. While medieval European nobility has received substantial attention in general, the Flemish nobility had been somewhat neglected. The books provide a substantial piece of social and constitutional history, combined with detailed genealogical research. The historical text in Part 1, Vols. I and II follows the Flemish nobility from its Frankish antecedents, through mature feudalism to the rise of the modern state, while Part 2, again in two parts, provides a series of genealogical tables and charts, together with an index.” Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
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Powicke,  Maurice. The Loss of Normandy 1189-1204.

by Powicke,  Maurice.

$ 20.00

Powicke,  Maurice. The Loss of Normandy 1189-1204. Manchester University Press 1999 Hardcover in DJ. Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 424 pp maps in back

” interaction of Frankish and Scandinavian elements in the tenth century.’ On the other hand, researches into later periods have reacted upon the problems of the earlier and in some degree reduced their importance. The exact nature of ducal authority, the precise amount of Scandinavian law in Normandy after the settlement of 912, become questions of less moment when it is proved that before the conquest of England Normandy had become a highly centralised feudal State….”

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Chojnacka, Monica. Working Women of Early Modern Venice.

by Chojnacka, Monica.

$ 20.00

Chojnacka, Monica. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. Johns Hopkins University 2001 Hardcover in DJ Like New /Like New Unused  Octavo 188 pp

In this groundbreaking book, Monica Chojnacka argues that the women of early modern Venice occupied a more socially powerful space than traditionally believed. Rather than focusing exclusively on the women of noble or wealthy merchant families, Chojnacka explores the lives of women—unmarried, married, or widowed—who worked for a living and helped keep the city running through their labor, services, and products.

Among Chojnacka’s surprising findings is the degree to which these working women exercised control over their own lives.

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Wiltenburg, Joy.  Women of Early Modern Germany ; An Anthology.

by Wiltenburg, Joy. 

$ 27.00

“Wiltenburg  has translated a selection of early modern texts that, though generally written by men, have women and their status, roles, and relationships as their subject. The translations are presented side-by-side with the original works”

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Lifshitz, Felice. Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia.

by Lifshitz, Felice.

$ 32.00
Lifshitz, Felice. Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia. Fordham University Press 2014 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 349 pp

“Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia , a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his beloved, abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the feminist consciousness of the women’s and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages.”

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Moller-Wiering. War and Worship. Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany.

by Susan Moller-Wiering.

$ 27.00

Susan Moller-Wiering. War and Worship. Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany. Ancient Textile Series #9 Oxbow Books 2011 Pictorial hardcover. Unused. Quarto 198 pp

 

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Kluge. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles : Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins

by Bernd Kluge

$ 45.00

Bernd Kluge. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles : Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins. Oxford University Press. 1987. Hard cover Like new. Navy cover with gold lettering. Quarto 180pp.

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Shopkow. History & Community – Norman Historical Writings in the 11th and 12th Centuries.

by Leah Shopkow.

$ 12.00

Leah Shopkow. History & Community – Norman Historical Writings in the 11th and 12th Centuries. The Catholic University of America Press. 1997. Soft cover/like new. Octavo. 327pp.
“By focusing on Latin historical writings in Normandy during the 11th and 12th centuries, the gap between broad theoretical treatment of historiography and narrow examination of single works is spanned.”

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