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€107.00$149.00Series:NWVolume:62Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004248342Status:Forthcoming Title Across the German Sea

Kathrin Zickermann, University of the Highlands and IslandsIn Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and cities located alongside the lower parts of the rivers Elbe and Weser.More information

€131.00$182.00Series:NWVolume:61Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004185470Status:New Title Clerics and Clansmen

Iain G. MacDonald, University of GlasgowIn Clerics and Clansmen Iain MacDonald examines the medieval diocese of Argyll in Gaelic Scotland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and the clergy who served within it, exploring their origins, clerical celibacy, education and pastoral care.More information

€123.00$171.00Series:NWVolume:60Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004212527Status:Available: In Print The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, Leiden University, and Stuart Jenks, University of ErlangenThe Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe discusses new research on this unique organization of towns and traders, and places the findings in the broader context of European economic, legal and social history.More information

€131.00$182.00Series:NWVolume:59Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004240797Status:Available: In Print Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture

Daniel Riches, University of Alabama

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In Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture, Daniel Riches investigates seventeenth-century

Brandenburg-Swedish relations to present an image of early modern diplomacy driven by interpersonal networks grounded in their members’ educational backgrounds, intellectual and cultural ...More information

€249.00$346.00Series:NWVolume:58Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004235038Status:New Title Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World

Edited by Andrew Reynolds and Leslie WebsterEarly Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World comprises a wealth of original contributions to medieval studies, with a wide topical and geographical remit.More information

€161.00$221.00Series:NWVolume:57Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004212473Status:Available: In Print Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

Peter Paul Bajer, Monash UniversityThis book offers an examination of Scottish migration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating their presence; their activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as ...More information

€177.00$243.00Series:NWVolume:56Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004185517Status:Available: In Print The Forgotten Crusaders

Mikołaj GładyszBy analysing cases of Polish involvement in the crusades and collecting traces of the crusading ideology and preaching in Polish sources from the 12th and 13th century, the book makes a valuable contribution to the discussion about the place of Central Europe in medieval Western Civilization.More information

€217.00$298.00Series:NWVolume:55Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004183124Status:Available: In Print Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven

Marsha Keith SchuchardDrawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of “Hats” in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques, he sought political intelligence on …More information

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€125.00$162.00Series:NWVolume:54Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004209893Status:Available: In Print Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History

Shami GhoshSurveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.More information

€132.00$171.00Series:NWVolume:53Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004206137Status:Available: In Print The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into

the Norwegian Realm c. 1195-1397Randi Bjørshol WærdahlInspired by transnational research on medieval state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the Norwegian realm c. 1195-1397.More information

€137.00$177.00Series:NWVolume:52Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004205062Status:Available: Print on Demand Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages

Edited by Gro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jan Erik Rekdal and Ian BeuermannThis book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.More information

€130.00$168.00Series:NWVolume:51Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004194960Status:Available: Print on Demand Constructing a Cult

Joanna A. SkórzewskaBased on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Guðmundr Arason’s popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual.More information

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€134.00$174.00Series:NWVolume:50Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004187597Status:Available: In Print Pictish Progress

Edited by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. HallSurvey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework.More information

€147.00$190.00Series:NWVolume:49Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004184718Status:Available: Print on Demand High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire

Philadelphia RickettsThrough the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows’ ...More information

€133.00$172.00Series:NWVolume:48Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004180116Status:Available: In Print Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England

Edited by Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany FoxMore information

€133.00$172.00Series:NWVolume:47Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004180086Status:Available: Print on Demand

British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688Edited by David Worthington

This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. The contributions demonstrate the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenth-century British and Irish history.More information

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€208.00$269.00Series:NWVolume:46Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004179165Status:Available: In Print Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721

Jan GleteThis is a book about how a peasant society created a large navy which was used to conquer and defend a Baltic mpire. It emphasises organisational capabilities rather than maritime skills as essential for early modern navies.More information

€163.00$211.00Series:NWVolume:45Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004175334Status:Available: Print on Demand Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200

David WyattConcentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, this book explores the activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Ireland’s warrior-centred societies c.800-1200 highlighting the significance of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic ...More information

€100.00$130.00Series:NWVolume:44Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004173644Status:Available: In Print Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway

Anne Irene RiisøyThis book argues the continuities between the medieval and early modern in Norway in regards to extramarital sexuality and the manner in which it was criminalised and punished, as well as the position of women within the law.More information

€163.00$211.00Series:NWVolume:43Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004173293Status:Available: In Print Between Betrothal and Bedding

Mia KorpiolaInvestigating the interaction and tension between Swedish and canonical marriage formation, and the later Lutheran influence, the book offers a case study of marriage formation as a process and the mechanisms of legal reception in medieval and Reformation Sweden.More information

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€121.00$157.00Series:NWVolume:42Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004170735Status:Available: In Print Youth and Age in the Medieval North

Edited by Shannon Lewis-SimpsonThis interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.More information

€144.00$187.00Series:NWVolume:41Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004169739Status:Available: In Print Beyond the Catch

Edited by Louis Sicking and Darlene Abreu-FerreiraDrawing on archaeological and written sources, this collection of essays presents fascinating new interpretations in the history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through interdisciplinary approaches to various themes, including the environment, economy, ...More information

€133.00$172.00Series:NWVolume:40Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004166707Status:Available: In Print The Empire of Cnut the Great

Timothy BoltonDrawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the ‘empire’ built by King Cnut (1016–1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.More information

€110.00$142.00Series:NWVolume:39Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004166622Status:Available: In Print The Legend of St Brendan

J.S. MackleyThe comparative study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman Versions of the Voyage of St Brendan offers an insight into the way that fantastic imagery was used to discuss sensitive theological issues in one of the most popular medieval narratives.More information

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€122.00$158.00Series:NWVolume:38Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004166615Status:Available: In Print Unpredictability and Presence

Hans Jacob OrningThis book applies a legal anthropological framework to high medieval Norwegian history. It formulates the question of state formation in a new and challenging way by showing how the king a substantial degree based his dominion on unpredictability and presence.More information

€135.00$175.00Series:NWVolume:37Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004166233Status:Available: In Print Britain and Poland-Lithuania

Edited by Richard Unger, with the Assistance of Jakub BasistaTwenty-four papers deal with various aspects of the economies, politics, religion, art, and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition, illustrating unexpected similarities and long-standing ties between the two regions.More information

€352.00$456.00Series:NWVolume:36Version: HardbackPublication Value: Bibliographic SetISBN13:9789004164291Status:Available: In Print

Baltic Connections (3 vols.)Edited by Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno BrandCovering almost 1000 archival collections in all countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands), this guide provides an essential tool for scholars studying the region's maritime, economic and diplomatic relations between 1450 and 1800.More information

€110.00$142.00Series:NWVolume:35Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004163980Status:Available: In Print Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

Vicki Ellen SzaboDrawing on historical, legal, literary, ethnographic and archaeological evidence, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the use, acquisition and perception of whales in the medieval Norse North Atlantic world.More information

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€135.00$175.00Series:NWVolume:34Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004161924Status:Available: Print on Demand The Danish Resources c. 1000-1550

Nils Hybel and Bjørn PoulsenDrawing on more than a century of historical research and a multitude of primary research this pioneering work offers a wealth ofinformation about the development of Danish natural and human resources, rural life, urban industries, tax and commodity trade from 1000 to 1550.More information

€144.00$187.00Series:NWVolume:33Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004161894Status:Available: In Print Guests in the House

Mats RoslundBased on the study of style transmission in medieval ceramics, the author interprets the shared cultural and political history of Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD. The reproduction of cultural identity is discussed in relation to changes in politics.More information

€110.00$142.00Series:NWVolume:32Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004160743Status:Available: In Print A Spirited Exchange

Henriette de Bruyn KopsThis economic and social history assesses the impact of the coastal wine and brandy trade on the early modern French, Dutch, and Atlantic economies, and highlights the importance of interconnecting personal networks of Dutch, Sephardic Jewish, and New Christian merchants.More information

€150.00$194.00Series:NWVolume:31Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004158931Status:Available: In Print West over Sea

Edited by Beverly Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor and Gareth WilliamsThis volume, prepared in tribute to Barbara E. Crawford, covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. The 30 papers are arranged in four groups: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and ...More information

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€144.00$187.00Series:NWVolume:30Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004155794Status:Available: In Print Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650

Janus Møller JensenThis ground-breaking study of the role of crusading in late-medieval and early modern Denmark argues that crusading had a tremendous impact on political and religious life in Scandinavia all through the Middle Ages, which continued long after the Reformation ostensibly should have put an end to ...More information

€100.00$130.00Series:NWVolume:29Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004155800Status:Available: In Print St. Magnús of Orkney

Haki AntonssonThis book looks at the emergence of the cult of St Magnús, earl of Orkney (d. 1117), and the literary corpus composed in his honour. Both aspects are examined from a wider Scandinavian and European perspective.More information

€100.00$130.00Series:NWVolume:28Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004156623Status:Available: In Print Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation

John D. FudgeFocusing on print culture and links between propagandists, typographers, and northern Europe's merchant milieu, this book investigates dispersal and suppression of religious innovation in the 1520s and expands the interpretative scope for Reformation studies beyond national, political, or ...More information

€150.00$194.00Series:NWVolume:27Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004155787Status:Available: In Print Kingship and State Formation in Sweden 1130-1290

Philip LineThis book is the first treatment in English of the medieval Swedish kingdom in its formative period, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Scandinavian research on the subject and an analysis of all aspects of kingship and government.More information

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€110.00$142.00Series:NWVolume:26Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004155022Status:Available: In Print The Popes and the Baltic Crusades 1147-1254

Iben Fonnesberg-SchmidtThe Popes and the Baltic Crusades examines the formulation of papal policy on the crusades and missions in the Baltic region in the central Middle Ages and analyses why and how the crusade concept was extended from the Holy Land to the Baltic region.More information

€121.00$157.00Series:NWVolume:25Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004154506Status:Available: In Print Christian IV and his Navy

Martin BellamyDuring Christian IV’s highly influential reign, the Danish navy grew to be one of the most significant – if flawed – navies in Europe.This book provides a detailed survey of its politics, administration and operation.More information

€121.00$157.00Series:NWVolume:24Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004152472Status:Available: In Print The Brendan Legend

Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Clara StrijboschThe Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to on the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. The book deals with the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts and it highlights the versatility of textual ...More information

€149.00$193.00Series:NWVolume:23Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004151673Status:Available: In Print Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Laura A.M. StewartThis work examines Edinburgh's contribution to the outbreak of the British civil wars and its importance in the establishment of the revolutionary Covenanting regime. Early modern urban culture, multiple monarchy and post-Reformation religious radicalism are key themes of the book.More information

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€119.00$154.00Series:NWVolume:22Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004151291Status:Available: In Print Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Edited by Wayne te Brake and Wim KloosterThe eleven wide-ranging essays in this volume covering the medieval and early modern periods explore how coercive power was established within, over, and by the cities of the Low Countries. They suggest a distinctive path of political development.More information

€158.00$205.00Series:NWVolume:21Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004151017Status:Available: In Print

The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval RussiaMari IsoahoThe present study examines the evolution of the image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in close connection with the dynamics of political and cultural history by demonstrating what influence the Life of Aleksandr Nevskiy had on popular historical consciousness in medieval Russia.More information

€119.00$154.00Series:NWVolume:20Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004150454Status:Available: In Print Kinship and Clientage

Alison CathcartThis study of clan society in the central and eastern Highlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries offers new insights into the nature of clanship and local society as well as its interaction with regional and national politics.More information

€194.00$251.00Series:NWVolume:19Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004147775Status:Available: In Print

Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250Edited by Barrie Cook and Gareth WilliamsThis themed volume contains 28 papers by leading authorities on numismatics and monetary history. It covers a variety of topics concerning the design, use and circulation of coinage in northern Europe in the late fifth to early thirteenth centuries.More information

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€178.00$231.00Series:NWVolume:18Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004146648Status:Available: In Print Network North

Steve MurdochDiscussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical ...More information

€141.00$183.00Series:NWVolume:17Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004145160Status:Available: In Print Icelanders and the Kings of Norway

Patricia Pires BoulhosaThe book discusses the relation between the Icelanders and the mediaeval Norwegian kings, as it appears in sagas and legal texts. By reassessing legal material and the sagas of Möðruvallabók, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power.More information

€136.00$176.00Series:NWVolume:16Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004142060Status:Available: In Print The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49

Edited by Richard D. OramThis nine-essay volume provides the first full-length, detailed exploration of the kingdom of Scotland during the reign of Alexander II (1214-49), and the most extensive analysis of this key state-builder and his policies.More information

€115.00$149.00Series:NWVolume:15Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004141223Status:Available: In Print The Discovery of the Baltic

Nils BlomkvistA study of Europeanization in the Baltic Rim 1075-1225 AD, comparing the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western one. A new approach to the period’s narrative sources brings real people’s attitudes and daily toils to life in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.More information

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€118.00$153.00Series:NWVolume:14Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004141049Status:Available: In Print High Germans in the Low Countries

Donald J. HarreldThis volume looks at the South German merchant community during Antwerp's Golden Age by examining German involvement in the social life of the city as well as tracing merchants' commercial activities.More information

€178.00$231.00Series:NWVolume:13Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004138964Status:Available: In Print

Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth CenturyJ.T. Kotilaine

This work is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's foreign trade flows and economic growth in the seventeenth century. By demonstrating the growing openness of the economy, it reveals a key element in Russia's rise to great power status.More information

€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:12Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004138742Status:Available: In Print Viking Rus

Wladyslaw DuczkoThis book offers a detailed survey of the history and culture of Scandinavians, known as Rus, living during the Viking Age in the Eastern Europe where they created not only a principality of Kiev but also several large proto-town centres and numerous rural settlements.More information

€71.00$92.00Series:NWVolume:11Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004138070Status:Available: In Print

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Sagas, Saints and SettlementsEdited by Gareth Williams and Paul BibireThis volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history

and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With ...More information

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€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:10Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004137905Status:Available: In Print Frederik II and the Protestant Cause

Paul Douglas LockhartThis study of Danish foreign policy in the late sixteenth century examines the efforts of Denmark’s King Frederik II (1559-88) to create an international alliance of European Protestants as protection against advances of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.More information

€137.00$177.00Series:NWVolume:9Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004136526Status:Available: In Print Queen Margrete I (1353-1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union

Vivian EttingThis book presents the fascinating story of Queen Margrete I and her rise to power in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which culminated in the founding of the Nordic Union in 1397. Based upon the most central contemporary sources, the book gives a vivid picture of medieval society in Scandinavia. ...More information

€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:8Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004136137Status:Available: In Print Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton ReevesThis volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period.More information

€118.00$153.00Series:NWVolume:7Version: HardbackPublication Value: Primary SourceISBN13:9789004131729Status:Available: In Print

Fagrskinna, A Catalogue of the Kings of NorwayAlison FinlayA central text in the Old Norse genre of kings’ sagas is translated here for the first time. It covers the history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries and throws light on Norwegian–Icelandic literary relations in the formative stage of saga writing.More information

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€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:6Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004132436Status:Available: In Print Families, Friends and Allies

Heather J. TannerThis book provides a new model of political development in late ninth through mid-twelfth century through an examination of the interrelationships among the counts of Boulogne and the neighboring counts of Picardy, Flanders, Normandy and England.More information

€132.00$171.00Series:NWVolume:5Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004132412Status:Available: In Print An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654

Alexia GrosjeanThis study of an unofficial Scottish-Swedish alliance analyses how Scotland's provision of military and mercantile expertise for Sweden's imperial expansion was repaid during the Covenanting revolution (1638-1641) by the supply of international support and material aid unparalleled in the early ...More information

€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:4Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004123960Status:Available: In Print Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

Tineke LooijengaThis source publication of all older runic inscriptions provides fascinating information about the origin and development of runic writing, together with the archaeological and historical contexts of the objects. Moreover elaborate readings and interpretations are given of the runic texts.More information

€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:3Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004125469Status:Available: In Print The 'Mother of all Trades'

Milja van TielhofThis book aims to present a general history of the Amsterdam grain trade on the Baltic in the early-modern period, and concentrates particularly on the development and role of transaction costs.More information

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€132.00$171.00Series:NWVolume:2Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004123410Status:Available: In Print Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England

Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton ReevesThis volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period.More information

€157.00$203.00Series:NWVolume:1Version: HardbackISBN13:9789004122987Status:Available: In Print Tools, Weapons and Ornaments

Herbert SchutzThe book examines the link between history and archeology derived from funerary and settlement materials in early Medieval Central Europe. The evidence demonstrates that the populations located to the north of the Roman frontiers were culturally aware societies with socio-political structures.More information

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