Product Description: Exploring the medieval heritage of Aberdeenshire and Moray, the essays in this volume contain insights and recent work presented at the British Archaeological Association Conference of 2014, based at Aberdeen University. The opening, historical chapters establish the political, economic and administrative context of the region, looking at both the secular and religious worlds and include an examination of Elgin Cathedral and the bishops’ palaces...read more

Product Description: This publication is the culmination of an extended programme of conferences that have sought to mark the contribution of F. T. Wainwright to Pictish studies and, in particular, the 50th anniversary of The Problem of the Picts. The book is firmly in the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship Wainwright did so much to promote and brings together much fresh thinking on the archaeological, art-historical, place name and historical understanding of Northern Britain in the second half of the first millennium AD...read more

Product Description: Eines der bedeutendsten Zeugnisse englischer Buchmalerei des fruhen 12. Jahrhunderts wird im vorliegenden Band erstmals zum Gegenstand einer farbig reich ausgestatteten Monographie. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung steht Christina von Markyate, fur die der Kodex hergestellt wurde und deren Lebens- und Frommigkeitsgeschichte die Handschrift erschliesst...read more

The St Albans Psalter is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting. This book examines every aspect of the psalter, tying it in closely to the lives of Christina of Markyate and Abbot Geoffrey. It demonstrates the significance of the St Albans Psalter crystallising the artistic and spiritual integration of Anglo-Saxons and Normans.

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