The series offers contemporary sources relating to Columbus' four voyages and the inter penetration of the hitherto separate worlds that resulted from them. The texts are presented in the original lan
This volume contains a complete and clearly produced transcription of the Yale 229 codex of La mort le Roi Artu, with decorated capitals, abbreviations, and other editorial features noted throughout.
Contemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being recon
Medieval archaeologists and other contributors trace the thousand-year history of the castle in Normandy, in northern France, and consider its social and cultural place in the surrounding town. Color
This thorough and beautifully illustrated monograph provides a history of the late medieval painter that includes substantial analysis of his painted altarpieces, manuscripts, and goldsmith work; evid
In this heavily illustrated volume, the history of this group of manuscripts and the contents of their texts and illuminations are described in detail, with particular attention to the adaptation of t
This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian century (1214-1314), a period that changed the cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation for the modernisation of the medieval West. The
With the publication of this second volume of the Census of Gothic Sculpture in America the project has examined over 650 works of sculpture in stone and wood located in twelve states and twenty museu
This book brings together essays about painting in Venice during three centuries of remarkable artistic production, influence, and exchange. The chronological scope of the anthology reflects the cruci
Monumental fountains were essential utilitarian and aesthetic components of any well-to-do Roman urban center. Besides their functional role of providing water, they were also designed to express the
Seeking the elusive meaning of the editorial choices made by the anthologists at the end of the Middle Ages, Taylor (Durham U.) argues that the social and cultural environment in which the anthologies
Of the eleven essays of this volume, nine were first presented at sessions called "Consensus in the Early Middle Ages" held in 1998 and 1999 at the Leeds International Medieval Congress; the remaining
Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), the Scottish-born painter who spent most of his life in Italy, was one of the most prominent figures among the artists and collectors of 18th-century Europe. Although he fi
