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1 online resource (306 pages) |
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Writing History in the Middle Ages ; 8 |
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Writing history in the Middle Ages.
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Hoard Fever: Objects Lost and Found, Beowulf and Questions of Belonging -- 2: Lost Craft: Tracing Ships in the Early Medieval Riddling Tradition -- 3: Typological Exegesis and Medieval Architecture in Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animae -- 4: Lost Objects and Historical Consciousness: The Post-Conquest Inventories at Ely -- 5: Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury and Bury St Edmunds in the Late 12th C |
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6: Reweaving the Material Past: Textual Restoration of Two Lost Textiles from St Albans -- 7: Matthew Paris, Metalwork and the Jewels of St Albans -- 8: A Pictorial Treasury in the Later Medieval Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey -- 9: Lost and Found: Gothic Ivories in Late Medieval French Household Records -- 10: Ivories in French Royal Inventories, 1325-1422: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age? -- 11: Parisian Painters and their Missing Œuvres: Evidence from the Archives -- 12: The Mythical Outcast Medieval Leper: Perceptions of Leper and Anchorite Squints -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts |
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General Index -- Writing History in the Middle Ages |
| Summary |
Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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Material culture.
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material culture (discipline)
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Antiquities
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Civilization, Medieval
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Material culture
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043261
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France -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051170
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| Subject |
England
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerry, Kathryn
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Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C
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Biller, Peter
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Baker, Katherine (Professor)
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Bleeke, Marian
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Carter, Deirdre
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Collard, Judith
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Davies, Joshua
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Kinsella, Karl
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| ISBN |
9781800105454 |
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1800105452 |
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