Whitehouse, David. Cage Cups : Late Roman Glasses.

by Whitehouse, David.

$ 35.00
Contents include : Two early cage cups and a cage cup of uncertain date, The discovery and study of late Roman cage cups
The characteristics of cage cups, Distribution and date, The manufacture of cage cups, Catalog, Cage cups with inscriptions
Cage cups and colors, Chemical analyses, Datable and approximately datable cage cups, Lost or incorrectly identified cage cups,
A silver and glass cage cup in context, Some hardstone objects with openwork, Recently examined cage cups,
The cutting of cage cups / David Hill.
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Dien, M Izzi. Theory and Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam.

by Dien, M Izzi.

$ 37.00
“This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. It includes a thorough translation of the text, written by a practising muhtasib, scholar and judge, together with accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes.”
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Harris, CRS. The Heart and Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

by Harris, CRS.

$ 32.00

 

“Harris traces the development of the Greeks’ ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings 9in 5th century BC) by Alcmaeom of Croton, a pupil of Pythagoras who placed the seat of consciousness in the brain and, in his theory of unbalance of opposite qualities, offered the first rational explanation of disease, to the sphymology of Galen (AD 129-199/216).”

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M. Teresa Tavormina. Sex Aging Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium.

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principal translator, followed by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished.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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Wang, Guojun. Staging Personhood : Costuming in Early Qing Drama.

by Wang, Guojun.

$ 42.00

 

“Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.”

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Paul Marquis, edit. Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes: the Elizabethan Version.

by Paul Marquis, edit.

$ 37.00

 

“On 5 June 1557, Richard Tottel published a collection of 271 poems composed by noblemen, courtiers, and gentlemen of the early sixteenth century. Eight weeks later, 31 July, he published a revised and expanded version of 280 poems, the arrangement of which became the standard for at least ten further editions in the Elizabethan period. Q2 omitted thirty poems from Q1, added thirty-nine new poems, and in twenty-seven places altered the sequence of poems from the first edition. In eight weeks, as Hyder E. Rollins points out, Songes and Sonettes was ‘completely changed’ and ‘thoroughly revised.’ Q2 was the text most likely read by the many editors, authors, and printers who compiled poetic collections in the Elizabethan period, including Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Modern readers, however, have had access only to Q1 in Rollins’s Tottel’s Miscellany (1929). This edition, based on Q2, thus provides readers with a copy of a text that has not been readily available since the latter half of the sixteenth century.”
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Black, Jeremy. Mapping Shakespeare : An Exploration of Shakespeare’s World through Maps.

by Black, Jeremy.

$ 32.00

 

“An exploration through maps of the land and time in which Shakespeare wrote. This beautiful new book looks at the England, Europe, and wider world in which William Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his Tudor contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world.”
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Desheng Hu. A Treasury of Ming and Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture.

by Desheng Hu.

$ 165.00
 

“This two-volume set is an important publication in the study of furniture from the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing. Through 30 years of work and research in the Palace Museum, furniture specialist and author Hu Desheng has selected 455 of the most outstanding pieces (or sets) of furniture, illustrated in these volumes in high-quality color photographs.

Chapters 1, 2 and 3 introduce the origins, styles and types of furniture from the Ming and Qing palaces, providing a solid overview and background to the collection; while Chapters 4 through 7 analyze and illustrate the structure and form, detail and decorative work, patterns and motifs, and materials used in making the furniture, allowing the reader to explore the pieces in more detail and depth.

Chapters 8 and 9 comprise the culmination of this study, showing representative pieces and sets of furniture, as well as exploring the arrangement and use of the furniture, allowing the reader to appreciate the pieces in their original context.

The breathtaking pieces, scholarly insight and abundant information contained within this set make it of great value to any enthusiast, collector or researcher of Chinese furniture.”

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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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Karkov, Catherine . Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England.

by Karkov, Catherine

$ 32.00

Karkov, Catherine . Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2006 Pictorial hardcover. Like New Unused Octavo 247 pp

Introduction / Nicholas Howe and Catherine E. Karkov —
From British to English Christianity : deconstructing Bede’s interpretation of the conversion / Nicholas Brooks —
High Style and Borrowed finery : the Strood Mount, the Long —
Wittenham Stoup, and the Boss Hall brooch as complex responses to continental visual culture / Carol Neuman de Vegvar —
Changing faces : Leprosy in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee —
A map of the universe : geography and cosmology in the program of Alfred the great / Nicole Guenther Discenza —
“Old names of kings or shadows” : reading documentary lists / Jacqueline Stodnick —
Colonization and conversion in Cynewulf’s Elene / Heide Estes —
Making women visible : an adaptation of the regularis concordia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 201 / Joyce Hill —
Architectural metaphors and christological imagery in the advent lyrics : Benedictine propaganda in the Exeter Book? / Mercedes Salvador —
End time and the date of Voluspá : two models of conversion / Richard North.
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