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
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
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
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
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
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
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: $40.00
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
Jean Fouquet : Presentazione di Roberto Salvini.
Lombardi, Sandro.
Firenze: Libreria Editrice Salimbeni, 1983.
Very good softcover in cream colored stiff wrapper with good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of wraps. Dust jacket has wear and rubbing along edges with tears on head of spine, price sticker on back cover, and some light scuffing to covers. 286 pages of text plus 309 plates with notes, bibliography, and index. This work on Jean Fouquet, the fifteenth-century French master painter and illuminator is in Italian.
Price: $60.00
La Piedra Filosofal : un Viaje en Busca de los Grandes Secretos de le Alquima. [ The Philosopher's Stone : a Journey in Search of the Greatest Secret of Alchemy ].
Marshall, Peter.
Barcelona: Grijalbo, 2001..
1st Spanish edition of a work originally done in English. Very good in like dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and corners. Some scuffing to page edges. 611 p. w/notes, bibliography, index.
Price: $18.00
Clement V.
Menache, Sophia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of boards. Dj has minor wear to edges and slight scuffing to covers. 351 pages with footnotes, maps, bibliography, and index. A study of the pontificate of Clement V (1305-1314) including his relations with King Philip the Fair of France and Henry VII of the Empire, the decision to stay in Avignon rather than returning to Rome, papal crusading plans, and the Council of Vienne.
Price: $75.00
Mostra Storica Nazionale della Miniatura, Palazzo di Venezia - Roma.
Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione.
Firenze: Sansoni, 1954.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to with some tears and chipping along edges including an inch long hole in middle of spine. Light scuffing to covers of dj with slight browning to edges and price sticker on back cover. 528 pages plus 104 plates with bibliography, appendix and index.
Price: $30.00
Medieval Slavdom and the Rise of Russia.
Nowak, Frank.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930..
First edition. Good duodecimo hardcover in light blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels and some scuffing and scratching to the covers. Pages are lightly browned and have some light foxing to the edges. 132 pages with few footnotes, pronouncing glossary, bibliography, and index. An interesting history of Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the third partition of Poland.
Price: $20.00
'England's Darling' : The Victorian Cult of Alfred the Great.
Parker, Joanne.
Manchester: Manchester Univeristy Press, 2007.
Near fine octavo in near fine dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and dj. Slight scuffing to dj. 248 pages with illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. A look at how Victorian Britain revised the life and reign of the Wessex king Alfred.
Price: $60.00
The Fourth Crusade: the Conquest of Constantinople 2nd ed.
Queller, Donald E. and Thomas F. Madden.
Univ. of Pennsylvania:1997..
1st printing of this edition. Very good in fine dust jacket. Some scuffing to page edges. 357 p. w/ map, index, and extensive notes and bibliography. Slight smoky smell to book. A well researched & updated history of the misguided and brutal 4th crusade that sacked Constantinople (now Istanbul) and installed a Latin Emperor on the throne of the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire.
Price: $20.00
The Journal of Medieval Military History. Volume IV.
Rogers, Clifford J., Kelly DeVries, and John France, editors.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006.
Very good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine and very heavy bump on upper corner of back cover. 173 pages with footnotes and few figures. A collection of studies on aspects of medieval military matters including discussions of cowardice, women in armies, and a section of documents on Valencian garrisions during the thirteenth century.
Price: $60.00
Filippo Beroaldo der Altere und sein Beitrag zur Properz-Uberlieferung. Beitrage zur Altertumskunde, Band 156.
Rose, Anna.
Leipzig: K.G. saur Munchen, 2001..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in grey cloth binding with red lettering without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Twist to the boards and spine. Stamped on fore-edges of the pages and marked out with black ink is "The University of Michigan Libraries." 474 pages with notes, appendices, bibliography, and indices. Text of this work is in German.
Price: $60.00
Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.
Ruggles, D. Fairchild.
University Park: : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Very good quarto hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers with a few brown specks and shallow scratch of about 3 inches on front cover. 275 pages with illustrations, maps, endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $60.00
The Poems of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus.
Shea, George W.
Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in blue binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Covers have some slight scuffing. Slight damage to fore-edges of pages (creases/bumps). Stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. 154 pages with footnotes, index, and select bibliography.
Price: $35.00
Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs : The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, 1154 - 1216.
Thomas, Hugh M.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with light scratch on back cover and minor bumping to heel of spine. 237 pages with map, tables, footnotes, genealogy, 4 appendices (1. the Mowbray and Percy honors, 2. gentry families with property in York, 3. history and a miraculous rise form the dead, 4. the Langbargh Charter and political dissent), bibliography, and index. A description of the gentry of Yorkshire and their role in the political and social developments in England during the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John.
Price: $75.00
