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The Travels Of Ibn Batuta - With Notes, Illustrative Of The History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, Etc. Occurring Throughout The Work

de Ibn Batuta

37,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An 1829 English edition of the work of the Arab traveller Ibn Battuta (1304â€"68/9), whose journeys may have reached as far as China and Zanzibar. There is doubt as to whether Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but this account gives a fascinating world-view from the medieval period.
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Essays On Archaeological Subjects - And On Various Questions Connected With The History Of Art, Science, And Literature In The Middle Ages

de Thomas Wright

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 For the essays in this two-volume 1861 work, Wright draws on sources ranging from medieval charters to modern linguistic studies, as well as the remains and artefacts uncovered by his own and others' excavations. Volume 1 considers prehistoric finds, aspects of Roman Britain, and the Anglo-Saxon and late medieval period.
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Historical Memorials Of Canterbury - The Landing Of Augustine; The Murder Of Becket; Edward The Black Prince; Becket'S Shrine

de Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

35,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was a canon of Canterbury when he published this work - four essays on the history of the cathedral - in 1855. Taking events associated with Canterbury, he puts them in a wider historical context, describing the locations in which they were enacted, and including fascinating details from literary sources.
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The Laws Of The Earliest English Kings

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 Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887â€"1973) published this work in 1922 for social and legal historians who did not require the full critical apparatus and contextual material previously provided in German by Felix Lieberman. The book covers the early Anglo-Saxon laws from Aethelbert to Aethelstan, with a facing-page modern English translation.
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A History Of The Mathematical Theories Of Attraction And The Figure Of The Earth - From The Time Of Newton To That Of Laplace

de Isaac Todhunter

56,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Published in 1874, this two-volume work by Isaac Todhunter (1820â€"84), perhaps the greatest of Victorian historians of mathematics, takes an important mathematical story from Newton, through the expeditions which settled certain questions in Newton's favour, to the investigations of Laplace which opened a new era in mathematical physics.
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Celtic Scotland - A History Of Ancient Alban

de William Forbes Skene

54,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This three-volume history, regarded as William Forbes Skene's most important work, was published between 1876 and 1880. Volume 3 discusses 'land and people', from the legendary origins of settlement, though the tribes of Scotland and Ireland to the pattern of land tenure in the fifteenth century.
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Celtic Scotland - A History Of Ancient Alban

de William Forbes Skene

54,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This three-volume history, regarded as William Forbes Skene's most important work, was published between 1876 and 1880. Volume 2 deals with 'church and culture', including the Celtic churches of Scotland, Ireland and Cumbria, particularly the great centre of Iona, and the tradition of learning associated with Celtic monasticism.
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Celtic Scotland - A History Of Ancient Alban

de William Forbes Skene

56,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This three-volume history, regarded as William Forbes Skene's most important work, was published between 1876 and 1880. After an introductory chapter, Volume 1 considers the history and ethnology of early Britain, the advance of the Romans northward, and the four early Scottish kingdoms, ending in the thirteenth century.
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Autobiography Of The Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister Of Inveresk - Containing Memorials Of The Men And Events Of His Time

de Alexander Carlyle

56,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This autobiography of the prominent Church of Scotland minister Alexander Carlyle was eventually published, in an edition by the historian John Hill Burton, in 1860. A humorous and hugely entertaining work, it offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual and social world of eighteenth-century Edinburgh and London.
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An History Of Birmingham - The Second Edition, With Considerable Additions

de William Hutton

56,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 William Hutton, a Birmingham bookseller, published his first work, of which the 1783 second edition is reissued here, in his late fifties. It was greatly praised, and encouraged Hutton to continue writing. His famous walking exploits led to his account of Hadrian's Wall (also reissued in this series).
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A History Of The Eastern Roman Empire - From The Fall Of Irene To The Accession Of Basil I (A.D. 802â€“867)

de J. B. Bury

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1912 work argues that the 'Amorian epoch' of the ninth century should not be overshadowed by the better-known periods of Byzantine history before and after it. Bury describes how iconoclasm again became a cause of civil strife, and wars on the eastern frontier strained the empire's resources.
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The History Of The Anglo-Saxons

de Sharon Turner

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 Sharon Turner (1768â€"1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature and history. Published 1799â€"1805, this four-volume work was a benchmark in Anglo-Saxon studies, drawing on manuscripts in the British Museum.
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The History Of The Anglo-Saxons

de Sharon Turner

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Sharon Turner (1768â€"1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature and history. Published 1799â€"1805, this four-volume work was a benchmark in Anglo-Saxon studies, drawing on manuscripts in the British Museum.
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The History Of The Anglo-Saxons

de Sharon Turner

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Sharon Turner (1768â€"1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature and history. Published 1799â€"1805, this four-volume work was a benchmark in Anglo-Saxon studies, drawing on manuscripts in the British Museum.
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Notitia Dignitatum - Accedunt Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae Et Laterculi Provinciarum

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 Otto Seeck (1850â€"1921) was a student of Theodor Mommsen, to whom he dedicated this, his first major work, published in 1876. The 'Notitia dignitatum' edited here is an unparalleled source of data about the administrative structure of the later Roman empire, east and west.
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The Imperial Administrative System In The Ninth Century - With A Revised Text Of The Kletorologion Of Philotheos

de J. B. Bury

29,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1911 work examines the text (of which Bury provides an edition) of the 'Kletorologion' of Philotheos, an otherwise unknown administrative official at the Byzantine court of Leo VI in the late ninth century. The work is a guide to precedence, which at this time was of great political importance.
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The Forme Of Cury, A Roll Of Ancient English Cookery - Compiled, About Ad 1390, By The Master-Cooks Of King Richard Ii

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 One of the oldest English-language cookbooks, compiled originally in the late fourteenth century by the master cooks of Richard II. This 1780 transcription from the manuscript roll then belonging to Gustavus Brander, a trustee of the British Museum, was made and annotated by the antiquary Samuel Pegge (1704â€"96).
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The Anonimalle Chronicle 1307 To 1334 - From Brotherton Collection Ms 29

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 This 1991 publication, edited by Wendy Childs and John Taylor (1925â€"2009), contains the first printed edition of a continuation of the French prose Brut. It is found in the Anonimalle Chronicle, a fourteenth-century manuscript from St Mary's Abbey, York. The text is given here with a facing-page translation.
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Early Yorkshire Charters

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. This volume (1942) constitutes the index for the first three volumes of the series.
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Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 11, The Percy Fee

56,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. Volume 11 (1963) contains texts relating to the Percy fee and William de Percy II in 1166.
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Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 10, The Trussebut Fee, With Some Charters Of The Ros Fee

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. Volume 10 (1955) contains texts relating to the Trussebut fee, and covers land held in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 9, The Stuteville Fee

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. Volume 9 (1952) focuses on the Stuteville family and is notable for its detailed genealogical content.
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Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 8, The Honour Of Warenne

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. Volume 8 (1949) focuses on the honour of Warenne and charters of the lords of the honour.
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Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 6, The Paynel Fee

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Before the appearance of this series (1914â€"65), the pre-thirteenth-century documents of Yorkshire were largely unpublished. This thirteen-volume collection was well respected for its extensive nature and the high quality of its editing. Volume 6 (1939) is devoted to the Paynel fee and the Paynel family.
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