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TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER MASTER SCULPTOR OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Julien Chapuis; Michael Baxandall; et al.
Stock no. 2139075
Published by The National Gallery Of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press. Circa 1999. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black cloth with silver title to spine. For the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington 3rd October 1999-9th January 2000 and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 7th February - 14th May 2000. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0300081626. Bumping to a couple of corners. A few marks to endpapers and browning to outer page edges. Pencil annotations in margins to some pages. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small tears and chips.

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THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP OF MATILDA OF CANOSSA 1046-1115
Written by David J. Hay.
Stock no. 1823482
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 2008. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gender in History series. An account of the entire 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defence of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor and turned the tide of the first great war between Church and state. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780719073588.

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THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS (COURTRAI, 11 JULY 1302)
Written by J.F. Verbruggen.
Stock no. 1823478
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A contribution to the history of Flanders' War of Liberation 1297-1305. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0851158889. A fine copy. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE LAST VIKINGS: THE EPIC STORY OF THE GREAT NORSE VOYAGES
Written by Kirsten A. Seaver.
Stock no. 1823475
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 2010. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Drawing on her deep knowledge of the culture and history of the region as well as the most up-to-date evidence from archaeology, medieval history and evocative sagas, Seaver weaves together a compelling and authoritative history of the Norse Greenlanders. Black cloth boards, sliver title to spine. ISBN: 9781845118693. A very nice copy.

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MERCENARIES AND THEIR MASTERS: WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
Written by Michael Mallett.
Stock no. 1822242
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Concentrating mainly on fifteenth century, a period when standing armies emerged in Italy and when the 'modern' trends were just as discernible here as elsewhere in Europe. Also looking back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century and then forward to the Italian Wars (1494-1530) when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0370105028. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block lightly faded. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned to spine and top edge, slightly grubby.

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INVENTIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Chiara Frugoni.
Stock no. 1321051
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2007. Nearly fine condition.

Black cloth spine with gilt title. Vivid pictorial boards illustrating some of the inventions. From table forks to buttons and underwear! Colour illustrations. 186 pages includes index. Minimal rubbing at corners of book. Red slipcase is very lightly marked.

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THE PRE-REFORMATION RECORD OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, BRISTOL: THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS
Written by Clive Burgess.
Stock no. 1818356
Published by Bristol Record Society. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Bristol Record Society's Publication Vol. 53. The second of a three-volume series edited by Clive Burgess. White cloth boards, black titles. ISBN: 090153823X.

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THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Written by Heinrich Fichtenau.
Stock no. 1815113
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Studies in Mediaeval History No. 9. This book is more concerned with the strains and stresses in Carolingian society and the conflicts that arose from then than with a systematic enumeration of all the known details. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0631053409. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is grubby, has a closed tear to top front edge and remains of price label to rear flap.

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THE POPES AND THE PAPACY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 476-752
Written by Jeffrey Richards.
Stock no. 1805070
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1979. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. viii and 422 pages including index. ISBN: 0710000987. Price-cut wrapper is faded at spine and edges.

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THE MODEL MERCHANT OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Written by Samuel Lysons.
Stock no. 809544
Published by Hamilton, Adams & Co.. 1st 1860. Very good condition.

Exemplified in the story of Whittington and His Cat being an attempt to rescue that interesting story from the region of fable and to place it in its proper position in the legitimate history of this country. Dark red cloth, gilt titles. 3 b/w plates plus 1 large folding genealogical table. Corners a little bumped and rubbed.

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