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  • Health and Well Being: A Medieval Guide

    de Andrew Forbes, Daniel Henley, David Henley ...
    The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on Health and Well Being. First produced in Italy around 1380, it was aimed at an educated secular readership and offered concise and sensible advice on how to live a long, healthy and enjoyable life. Five handsomely illustrated manuscripts of the Tacuinum survive, all produced in Lombardy and now housed, respectively, at libraries in Rome, Vienna, ... Leer más

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  • Dürer

    de Klaus Carl ...
    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper ... Leer más

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  • South from Ephesus

    Travels through Aegean Turkey

    de Brian Sewell ...
    South from Ephesus focuses on Brian Sewell's winter journey from Ephesus to Side.Weary of what he called the "tyranny" of western art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey - a country that had captivated him since he was a boy - in 1975. He thought that there, anything he found would have no relevance to the European art that he had so compulsively "stitched into the dense fabric of my art-historical ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy

    The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries

    de Paroma Chatterjee ...
    This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • From Eden to Eternity

    Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages

    de Alastair Minnis ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about ParadiseDid Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in paradise? And since people had no need for clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did animals serve? Would carnivorous animals have preyed on other creatures? These were but a few of the questions ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Imaginary Animals

    The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human

    de Boria Sax ...
    Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations – deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world with names, categories and scientific knowledge.This book traces the history of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque

    de T. O'Keefe ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the visual-artistic and architectural cultures of this period to their Classical antecedents, the term has survived two centuries of increasingly sophisticated readings of the relevant medieval buildings ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • John Hunt

    The Man, The Medievalist, The Connoisseur

    de Brian O'Connell ...
    The book tells for the first time the remarkable life story of John Hunt, one of the world's greatest medievalists and someone whose legacy to Ireland lives on today with most of the major cultural attractions in the Shannon region including Bunratty Castle and Folk Park and the Hunt Museum, owing their existence to either his initiative or generosity. Details of his family background are also ... Leer más

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  • Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages

    Transcultural Perspectives

    Edición de Markus Stock ...
    In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Art of India

    Sacred traditions, temples, and timeless beauty

    de Vincent Arthur Smith ...
    If the ‘Palace of Love’, otherwise known as the Taj Mahal, is considered to be the emblem of Mughal Art, it is by no means the sole representative. Characterised by its elegance, splendor, and Persian and European influences, Mughal Art manifests itself equally well in architecture and painting as in decorative art. ... Leer más

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  • Apocalypse

    de Camille Flammarion ...
    The final book of the Bible, known both as The Book of Revelation and The Apocalypse of John, is a prophesy of the events that will occur at the end of time. During the Middle Ages, in a society which held a deep belief in God and was mainly ruled by religious authorities, this apocalyptic theme recurs in art, through various media, including tapestries, illuminations, sculpture, and painting. ... Leer más

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  • Why Were Monasteries Important in the Middle Ages? Ancient History Books | Children's Ancient History

    de Baby Professor ...
    There were a lot of interesting facts, people and places during the Middle Ages. Among these were the monasteries. You know monasteries as places of meditation and peace. In the old times, they served additional purposes too. In those times, monasteries were as important as any other structure you see. Discover the truths about monasteries. Grab a copy today! ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD