Results for: Medieval European History
Statuti Dell'Arte dei Rigattieri e Linaioli di Firenze (1296-1340): A Cura di Ferdinando Sartini.
Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1940.
Good softcover in fair dust wrapper. Some wear aand rubbing to edges of covers with light scuffing. Dust wrapper is browned and has large chipping/tears on head of spine with small holes/chips on heel of spine and corners of covers. Upper edges of pages are uncut. 259 pages with footnotes and index. Text of this work is mainly in Latin.
Price: $30.00
Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes.
Albertson, Clinton.
Fordham University Press, 1967.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with chipping on head of spine and light scuffing to covers. Upper edges of pages are colored red. 347 pages with notes, illustrations, appendices, bibliographical note, chronological table, and index. Includes the Vitas of Saints Cuthbert, Wilfrid, Guthlac, Ceolfrith, Willibrord, Boniface, and Bede's Lives of Abbots.
Price: $15.00
Saint-Jacques de Compostelle : Puissances du Pelerinage. La Quete du Sacre.
Alphonse Dupront.
Brepols, 1985.
Very good quarto-sized hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 255 pages with illustrations and bibliography. Text is in French. A study of the cult and shrine of St. James and the pilgrimages to Compostella during the Middle Ages.
Price: $125.00
A New Life of Saint Dominic : Founder of the Dominican Order.
Blessed Jordan of Saxony. Annotated by Louis Getino. Translated by Father Edmond Ceslas McEniry.
Columbus, OH: The Columbian Press, 1926.
Good octavo hardcover in black binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with many of the flaws, marks, and stamps associated with that condition including card pocket on rear pastedown endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Some scuffing to covers with white scuff on front cover and browning along edge and spine. Page edges are browned. 169 pages illustrations and notes. A translation of this work by the successor of St. Dominic and the first Master General of the Dominicans.
Price: $35.00
Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages: Selected Essays by Marc Bloch.
Bloch, Marc. Translated by William R. Beer.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975..
First American edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with numerous small tears and minor chips missing from edges and some light scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on front free endpaper. Light foxing to page edges. Few blue ink marks in margins of text. 276 pages with endnotes and glossary. A collection of essays on medieval slavery and servitude by the noted medievalist Marc Bloch.
Price: $70.00
A Knight of Great Renown: The Life and Times of Othon de Grandson.
Clifford, Esther Rowland.
University of Chicago Press, 1961..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Slight roll to spine. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some light wear along edges with minor scuffing to covers and browning along edges and spine. Name of the previous owner on endpaper. 313 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.
Price: $25.00
English University Life in the Middle Ages.
Cobban, Alan B.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Very good octavo hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corner of back cover. Slight scuffing to covers. 264 pages with illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of life at Cambridge and Oxford during the Middle Ages looking at undergraduate and graduate experiences.
Price: $30.00
The Design in the Wax : The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning.
Cogan, Marc.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
Light wear to edges of covers with slight curling on corners and some light scuffing. Few pages are creased on upper corners. Some pencil notes and underlining in text (extensive on some pages). 396 pages with 3 appendices, endnotes, and 2 indices. A look at the unfiying themes from a "medieval interpretation" of the sources used by Dante to create the Divine Comedy.
Price: $20.00
Mediaeval [Medieval] Russian Churches.
Cross, Samuel Hazzard. Edited by Kenneth John Conant.
Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1949.
Very good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small tears and chipping including a half inch chip missing from head of spine and some light scuffing to covers. 95 pages of text plus 113 black and white plates with map, bibliographical note, and index. A study of medieval Russian church architecture in Kiev, Chernigov, Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir-Suzdal, and Moscow.
Price: $35.00
Storm and Other Old English Riddles.
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, translator.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with rubbing and bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some light scuffing to covers with crease on front inner flap's lower corner. 76 pages with illustrations. A collection of Anglo-Saxon riddles with a solution and explanation section at the end of the work.
Price: $30.00
The Lara Family : Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain.
Doubleday, Simon R.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 198 pages with maps, endnotes, list of the tenancies of the Laras, list of principal figures of the Lara family, glossary, and index. A study of the rise of the Lara family of Castile, its role in the Reconquest, and its rebellions against the crown and fall from royal favor.
Price: $40.00
The Baptism aand Temptation of Christ: The First Day of a Medieval French Passion Play.
Elliott, Jr., John R., and Graham A. Runnalls, editors and translators.
New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1978.
Very good octavo hardcover in gold cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Minor scuffing to covers. 153 pages with notes and bibliography. Contains French text of play with an English translation on facing pages.
Price: $15.00
Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000 - 1200.
Fichtenau, Heinrich. Translated by Denise A. Kaiser.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has minor wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 403 pages with endnotes, select bibliography, and index. An interesting study of the rise of scholasticism and popular heresy in the High Middle Ages.
Price: $30.00
Morphemic Structure of Chaucer's English.
Fisiak, Jacek.
University: University of Alabama, 1965.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few small tears, mainly on head of spine, and some scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly foxed. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. Few blue ink marks in margins and underlining in text. 125 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
Marian Representations in the Miracle Tales of Thirteenth-Century Spain and France.
Flory, David A.
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000.
Very good octavo hardcover in red binding without dust jacket. Wear along edges with light bumping to head and heel of spine and along lower edges and corners of panels. Light scuffing to covers. 156 pages with illustrations, footnotes, appendix, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages.
Fourquin, Guy. Translated by Iris and A. L. Lytton Sells.
New York: Pica Press, 1976..
First American edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels. The dj has wear along the edges with a few minor tears and little bits of chipping on the upper edge of the front cover and some general light scuffing to the covers. Notes in pencil on the front free endpaper. Very minor underlining in the text. 253 pages with footnotes, brief bibliography, list for further reading, and index. A work discussing the differences between feudal and seigneurial lordship and relations during the Middle Ages.
Price: $15.00
The Poems of Francois Villon.
Francois Villon. Translated by Galway Kinnell.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good price-clipped dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing to edges with some light scuffing to covers. 246 pages with endnotes and selected bibliography. The poems of Francois Montcorbier (c. 1463).
Price: $20.00
Felony and Misdemeanor: A Study in the History of Criminal Law.
Goebel, Jr., Julius.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
Reprinting of Felony and Misdemeanor, Vol I, (1937). Good trade paperback. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Slight foxing to page edges. 455 pages with footnotes and index.
Price: $15.00
On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature.
Hamori, Andras.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine and some blotches of foxing on upper portions of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with light browning along edges and spine and some light scuffing to covers. Upper edges of pages are lightly foxed. 199 pages with footnotes, chronology, bibliography, and index. A study of medieval Arabic literature, concentrating on poetry, examining many of the aspects that are less familiar to western readers.
Price: $75.00
The Fifteen [15] Signs Before Doomsday.
Heist, William W.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State College Press, 1952.
Octavo. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many tears and much chipping including a one inch tear on lower edge of front cover and an inch and half tear on lower edge of back cover. Dj's covers are scuffed and browned with light pencil number on inner front flap. Page edges are browned. Some light smudging on rear free endpaper. 231 pages with footnotes, 2 appendices (1. versions of the Fifteen Signs annotated, 2. versions not used in this study), bibliography, and index. Important study of the Irish origins of this famous medieval legend.
Price: $90.00
Richard III: A Study in Service.
Horrox, Rosemary.
Cambridge University Press, 1989..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with minor scuffing to covers and slight browning along edges. Page edges are also slightly browned. 358 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed examination of Richard III's affinity/royal household.
Price: $35.00
Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer.
Jordan, William C.; Bruce McNab; and Teofilo F. Ruiz, editors.
Princeton University Press, 1976..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear to edges with scuffing to covers including some brown stain marks on covers. 582 pages with notes and index.
Price: $25.00
Middle English Literature: A Critical Study of the Romances, the Religious Lyrics, and Piers Plowman.
Kane, George.
London: Methuen & Co., 1951.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with small tears and some minor chipping. Dj is heavily scuffed and browned. Page edges are also browned. 252 pages with endnotes and index.
Price: $15.00
Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England.
Karras, Ruth Mazo.
Oxford University Press, 1996..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has slight wear along edges with minor scuffing to covers, mainly on lower portion of back cover. 221 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $25.00
Jewish Book Art between Islam and Christianity : The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain.
Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Translated by Judith Davidson.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue illustrated binding without dust jacket. Light wear and slight scuffing to covers. 245 pages with maps, illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and 2 indices. An examination of Sephardic illuminated Passover manuscripts and Bibles in medieval Spain.
Price: $125.00
The Siege of Jerusalem: Edited from MS. Laud. Misc. 656 with variants from All Other Extant MSS.
Kolbing, E., and Mabel Day, editors.
London: Early English Text Society/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University, 1932.
Good octavo hardcover in brown cloth binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Covers have some scuffing and fading along edges and spine. Slight tear in binding on head of spine. Minor roll to spine. Page edges are browned. 133 pages with footnotes, 3 appendices, endnotes, glossary, index, and 8 pages of ads in the back.
Price: $50.00
Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
Kreutz, Barbara M.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with slight scuffing to covers. 228 pages with maps, endnotes, appendix: The Southern Lombard rulers, bibliography, and index. An interesting examination of the Lombard, Islamic, and Carolingian states in Southern Italy prior to the arrival of the Normans.
Price: $60.00
Power & Purity : Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy.
Lansing, Carol.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Inscribed by author for previous owner, Marvin Becker. 267 pages with 2 appendices, endnotes, list of works cited, and index. An interesting study of this heretical group in the town of Orvieto.
Price: $40.00
The Great Heritage : The Classical Literature of Old Rus.
Likhachov, Dmitry.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of both covers. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some minor nicks and tears on head and heel of spine and on corners of covers. Dj is also lightly scuffed. Embossed stamp of previous owner on title page. 350 pages with references, notes, and index. A look at a variety of Old Rus litertaure.
Price: $20.00
Images of Intolerance : The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible Moralisee.
Lipton, Sara.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with some minor spotting to covers. Dj has light wear and minor rubbing to edges with scuffing to covers and small tag taped to spine. 241 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibiography, and index. A study ofthe portrayal of Jews by the French Bible Moralisee, which was made around the year 1225.
Price: $45.00
