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  • Medieval Art and Architecture at Durham Cathedral

    The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions for the year 1977

    by Nicola Coldstream, Peter Draper ...
    Series series The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
    This book contains fifteen essays that synthesize the documentary and archaeological evidence for the development of early medieval Durham and asses its archaeological potential. It systematically extracts the important aspects of materials related to architectural history of the Durham cathedral. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Churches of Gloucestershire

    by Nicola Coldstream ...
    Series series Churches of ...
    The county of Gloucestershire has a rich and varied past which is reflected in its historic churches. The landscape is dominated by two principal features – the River Severn and the Cotswold hills – and Gloucestershire’s churches help demonstrate the changing face of the county, from the Forest of Dean to the Cotswold escarpment, the Severn Vale to the watery southern boundary by the River Thames. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Churches of Oxfordshire

    by Nicola Coldstream ...
    Series series Churches of ...
    Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds in the north-west, which give very fine building stone. The land supports arable and sheep farming, and is watered by the River Thames and its many tributaries. All this is reflected in ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Architectural Orders

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by M. Wilson Jones, Eugene Dwyer, Sergio L. Sanabria, Margaret Lyttleton, Nicola Coldstream ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    Discover the critical vocabulary of Western architecture and the enduring influence of the five classical orders within this fully illustrated Grove Art Essentials volume. Beginning with the syntax of columns and entablatures in ancient Egypt, the authors outline the development of the classical orders and their variations in ancient Greece and Rome, tracing the revival and adaptation of these ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Later Middle Ages

    Edited by Stephen Medcalf, Nicola Coldstream, Marjorie Reeves, David R Starkey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
    Originally published in 1981, The Later Middle Ages bridges the gap between modern and medieval language and literature, by introducing the social and intellectual milieu in which writers like Chaucer, Malory and Margery Kempe lived. It provides a unified and coherent account of the culture of late medieval England, and of the problems involved in viewing it, in relation to English literature. The ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Medieval Graffiti

    The Lost Voices of England's Churches

    by Matthew Champion ...
    A fascinating guide to decoding the secret language of the churches of England through the medieval carved markings and personal etchings found on our church walls from archaeologist Matthew Champion.'Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle Ages.' -- The Sunday Times**'**A fascinating and enjoyable read' -- ***** Reader review'Superb' -- ***** Reader review<strong... ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Cathedrals of Britain: North of England & Scotland

    by Bernadette Fallon ...
    Series series Cathedrals of Britain
    **Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervor. From Christian beginnings in the Middle Ages through Reformation, Renaissance and Modernity, the great cathedrals of Britain have been both battleground and place of quiet ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Westminster Abbey

    A thousand years of national pageantry

    by Professor Richard Jenkyns ...
    Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla for the tombs of the great, a 'national cathedral' and the 'Tomb of the Unknown Warrior'.This ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture

    by P. H. Ditchfield ...
    In this volume I have attempted to give an architectural description of all the cathedral churches of England, Wales, and Scotland, together with a brief history of each see. In order to include any adequate account of each church and bishopric in one volume of portable size, which may be of use to visitors in their travels, much compression has been necessary, but it is hoped that nothing of ... Read more

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  • Palaces of Revolution

    Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

    by Simon Thurley ...
    The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shrouded in mystery: the first half of the century overshadowed by the fall and execution of Charles I, the second half in the complete collapse of the House ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Stone on Stone

    The Men Who Built The Cathedrals

    by Imogen Corrigan ...
    Standing in the nave of a cathedral, it is hard not to wonder how ordinary human beings could have created sky-scraping, dizzyingly high buildings on which even the top-most parts were delicately decorated, in an age before even the simplest of power tools. Stone on Stone presents the full story of the men who built the cathedrals of the medieval era: who they were, how they lived and how with the ... Read more

    $21.79 USD

  • The Story of Durham

    by Douglas Pocock ...
    The Story of Durham traces the evolution of a city that medieval writers likened to Jerusalem, which Ruskin termed one of the wonders of the world, and which Pevsner, more modestly, called one of the architectural experiences of Europe.To Bill Bryson, meanwhile, Durham appeared 'a perfect little city' with 'the best cathedral on planet Earth'. The city is a physical manifestation of a significant ... Read more

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