From Colleen.McDonald@mackie.com Fri Oct 25 07:57:24 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9PEvLFD052892 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:57:22 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Oct 25 07:57:20 2002 -0700 Received: from WDNE2K.mackie.com ([12.144.236.75]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9PEvKA9026970 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:57:21 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Books and websites of interest (long) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:55:42 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Colleen McDonald" To: Greetings all, Here are some more books and websites that may be of interest. =20 Also, my thanks to Owen Ap Evan for his wonderful offer to put all of = this data into a web searchable format - it is greatly appreciated! Happy researching! In service, I remain Lady Cainder nic Sheanlaoich, GdS Research junkie Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends by Lonni R. Johnson ISBN = 0-19-541826-6 "About 1/4 of the book cover the SCA time period, but they have stuff on = Poland and Hungary among many others..." (Courtesy of Apollonia = Margherita) Enrico Coppi, ed. Cronaca Fiorentina 1537-1555. =20 Documenti di storia italiana, Series II, vol. 7. Florence: Leo=20 S. Olschki, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226. Euro 24,78. ISBN 88 222=20 4899 6. "Many Italian chronicles begin with very matter-of-fact=20 statements about some ceremony, or meteorological event, worthy=20 enough of notice to inspire the author to pick up his pen, but=20 hardly gripping to the modern reader. Not so for this=20 anonymous chronicle! At the very outset we are plunged into a=20 lively account of a plot, an assassination, rebellion,=20 cardinals hastening to and fro, secrecy, succession--very=20 gripping material indeed! Nor does the author limit himself to=20 this one conflict; throughout the work are sprinkled crimes of=20 violence, revenge, theft, jealousy, that almost always end with=20 the gruesome death of the perpetrator at the hands of either=20 his opponent or the official executioner. And yet the=20 chronicle was kept privately and secretly, in no way exploiting=20 its potential popularity, for reasons that become obvious as we=20 progress through it." Alison Williams Lewin, Saint Joseph's University An On-line Version of the Codex Manesse, a Minnesinger book including many of their arms, from Germany dated to the early 1300's. http://www.manesse.de/manesse_start.shtml (You can see all the illustrations by clicking on the link called: = Tafeln der Manesseschen Liederhandschrift) (Courtesy of Darleen on the = Druim na Doineann list) The following are courtesy of Ian Stevens of The David Brown Book = Company: Sienese Painting by Giulietta Chelazzi Dini, Alessandro Angelini, Bernardina Sani Abrams This sumptuous book carefully traces the glorious heritage of Italian = Renaissance painting from its dawn forward into the 1700s. Even amateur = art lovers will sense both the piety and the struggle towards naturalism = that inform the earliest of these works. 200p (Abrams 1998) $39.98 Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from = the Papal Collection Robert P Bergman $5.98 Young Medieval Women edited by Katherine J Lewis, Noel James Menuge and Kim M Phillips Eight interdisciplinary essays which place young womanhood in a social = and historical context. Subjects include maidenhood, virgin martyrs and = nuns, queens, rape, Joan of Arc, female wards, marriage, prostitution. = 202p, 16 b/w figs (Sutton 1999) $6.98 National Redeemer: Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition Cornell University Press $4.98 Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire by Michael Camille Sumptuous colour illustrations of objects and images dating from the = thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries complement a text which explores = both real and symbolic aspects of medieval love and romance. Highly = recommended. 176p, 120 col & 30 b/w pls (Laurence King 1998) $9.98 The Nobility of Later Medieval England K.B. McFarlane Oxford University Press $19.98 Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor by David Abulafia Oxford University Press A biography of the 13th-century Holy Roman Emperor whose rule extended = from the Netherlands to Cyprus and Israel and who, at a time of great = intolerance, was defiant to the pope and keen to create a new, secular = world in which Christians, Jews and Muslims all had a part to play. = 466p, b/w figs, maps (Oxford UP 1988) $6.98 German Knighthood 1050-1300 by Benjamin Arnold Oxford University Press Arnold discusses the medieval German empire in the tenth century, the = presence of large armed forces and their aggressive overseas policies, = feuding at home, retinues, knights, leadership and the emperor. 320p = (Oxford Univ Press 1985, Sandpiper rpr 1999) $24.98 Medieval Buda Martyn Rady Columbia University Press $12.98 A Medieval Family: The Pastons of the Fifteenth-Century England by Frances and Joseph Gies HarperCollins Publishers A history of three generations of the colourful Paston family, told = largely in their own words, which combines personal tragedy and = happiness with accounts of events which affected the whole country. = 392p, b/w illus (Harper Collins 1998) $9.98 At Play in the Tavern: Signs, Coins, and Bodies in the Middle Ages by Andrew Cowell Michigan University Press Cowell investigates the raucous world of the tavern, inn and brothel in = the literature of medieval France, or what the author terms 'the French = "comico-realist" literary tradition'. 270p (Univ Michigan Press) $24.98 The Castles of Friuli: History and Civilisation by Christopher Ulmer, photography by Gianni d'Affara KONEMANN A reappraisal of the role of the castle in medieval Europe through an = assessment of Friuli, north-east Italy. Located on the border between = west and east Europe, Friuli is ideally placed to illustrate the = changing role and design of the castle. The beautiful photography is = accompanied by descriptions of the earliest castles, the development = from Roman forts, feudal castles and the aristocrats who built them. = Mulmer suggests that the function of castles was more symbolic than = active and has been exaggerated by more recent romanticism. Originally = published in Italian in 1997. 318p, many col pls (Magnus 1997, = K=F5nemann English edn 1999) $17.98 Romanesque Architecture, Sculpture, Painting Konemann The Romanesque period was during the high Middle Ages, and is so called = because of its use of that typical classical Roman architectural device = - the arch. The text looks mainly at architecture, starting off with a = section on building styles, and then each chapter takes you off round = Europe and Scandinavia to see the results. Stunning photographs on = almost every page, most of which have been commissioned exclusively for = this volume, and the sculpture offers a remarkable insight into the = lives, hopes and fears of the times. 468p, many illus, many col plates = (Konemann 1997) $39.98 The Goths in Spain by E A Thompson A study of how the Goths governed their provinces from their victory at = Vouill=E9 in 507 until the arrival of the Arabs in Gibralter in 711. = 358p (Oxford UP 1969, rep 2000) $24.98 The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe edited by Martin Carver Boydell & Brewer Inc. Fifty years on this most famous of Anglo-Saxon burials retains both its = magic and its mystery. More than just a discussion of the Sutton Hoo = site, the 24 essays in this volume examine the society and material = culture of North-western Europe from the 5th to the 8th century AD. = Contributors include: W Filmer-Sankey (Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery); S = Newton (Beowulf and the East Anglian royal pedigree); H Loyn (Kings, = gesiths and thegns); H Geake (Burial practices in England); J D Richards = (Anglo-Saxon symbolisms); L Alcock (Western and northern Britain); S M = Foster (Pictland); E James (Royal burials among the Franks); P Perin = (Clovis' undiscovered grave); L Hedeager, B Myhre (Denmark and Norway in = a European perspective); J Hines (The Scandanavian character of Anglian = England); H Ellis Davidson (Human sacrifice). 406p with 72 figs & 32 pls = (Boydell 1992, Pb 1994) $26.98 .