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Hopper, Sarah. Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims.

by Hopper, Sarah.

$ 20.00

Hopper, Sarah. Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims. Sutton Publishing 2006 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 206 pp

“The medieval woman was both idealised and vilified. The idea that she might stray outside the boundaries established by her family and husband threw the medieval man into a veritable fit of anxiety. Pilgrimages gave women a justification for escaping the confines of their existence and this book examines this topic.”GoodReads

by Marino, Nancy.

$ 25.00

Marino, Nancy. El Libro Del Conoscimiento de Todos (The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1999 Hardcover. Like New Unused Octavo 138 pp

“The text and translation (presented on facing pages) of an apocryphal travelogue purporting to be the travels of a 14th century friar through Europe, Africa, and Asia. The work has been re-edited in light of a fourth manuscript that only recently appeared. An introductory essay explains the work’s significance and its impact upon early navigators. Also included are the drawings of the coats of arms of the kingdoms mentioned in the text” GoodReads

by Dayanna Knight.

$ 25.00

Dayanna Knight. Viking Nations. Pen and World 2016. Hardcover in DJ Very Good/Very Good Unused Octavo 271 pp

“Viking Nations is an interdisciplinary consideration of medieval North Atlantic settlement that focuses on not only site-related identity but also the active choices made to adopt elements of identity. It utilizes comparative analysis of evidence to highlight terrestrial and marine drivers to identity development in relation to the site context. By adopting this approach it is possible to more closely examine not only the settlement of the North Atlantic but also the apparent taming of the Vikings concurrently taking place. This book illustrates the priorities expressed by medieval settling populations in relation to particular contexts. It proposes a method for planning ships’ cargos which corresponds to identity development amongst the constituent Atlantic archipelagos.”

by Morawiec, Jakub, Aleksandra Jochymek, and Grzegorz Bartusik.

$ 25.00

Morawiec, Jakub, Aleksandra Jochymek, and Grzegorz Bartusik. Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia. ARC Humanities Press 2019 Pictorial hardcover. Very Good Unused Octavo 268 pp

“The chapters in this volume address numerous and intri-cate questions regarding Old Norse culture; rituals, social ties, social norms, outlaws, lawmaking, and cognitive structures. The main sources for the discussion are the Icelandic family sagas, the kings’ sagas, as well as Eddic poetry, laws, and sagas such as Karlamagnús saga. The diversity of topics is the strength of the volume. This is possible due to the exceptional source situation that offers us almost endless opportunities of discussing different aspects of the Old Norse culture.”

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….”

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.

by John Walmsley, edit.

$ 27.00

“This work is a new critical edition and translation of the late-twelfth-century Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on estates held directly by the Crown in 1185. As such they were a precursor to the veredicta of the general eyre from the 1230s on and of the extents attached to the Inquisitions Post Mortem from the 1240s. The implications for royal power and control and the machinery which brought them into being no doubt also led to the concerns expressed about inheritance and the treatment of widows and wards in the early clauses of Magna Carta in 1215. Translation of this material in toto makes it an invaluable source book for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the economy and society of medieval England and also for those interested in the history of women.”

by Grund, Peter.

$ 32.00

“Adding to the few edited early English texts on alchemy, this book presents an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560s–1570s) treatise on the philosopher’s stone, the miraculous substance that would turn base metals into silver and gold or cure diseases. The substantial introduction weaves together struggles between competing merchant factions in Russia, the Elizabethan court’s fascination with alchemy, and the origins and evolution of Lock’s alchemical treatise. The book offers new insights into the circulation of alchemical texts in early modern England, the reuse and adaptation of alchemical literature, and the emergence of English as a language of science. “

by Hess, Catherine.

$ 45.00

“This book catalogues the Getty Museum’s fine collection of forty-five Italian ceramic objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes, a tabletop with hunting scenes, and, from the 1790s, the beautifully modeled and painted Saint Joseph with the Christ Child. Containing the most recent scientific, historical, and iconographic information about the Museum’s holdings, Italian Ceramics offers a wealth of new information about the Getty Museum’s superb collection of Italian ceramic art.”

by M. Teresa Tavormina.

$ 40.00

“Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52 is one of the most important extant witnesses to vernacular medical and scientific writing in late medieval England. This two-volume collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the physical manuscript, its contents and textual relations to other Middle English medical compendia, its scribe, scribal dialect, and the translation strategies of its principal translator, followed by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished. The book concludes with two linguistic appendices, a list of manuscripts cited, an extensive general glossary and specialized glossaries of materia medica and proper names, and a bibliography.

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