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2023
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A United Europe of Things: Portable Material Culture across Medieval Europe
This volume studies high and late medieval material culture in a Pan-European context. The idea of ‘unity of culture’ in Medieval Latin Europe is well known in historical texts, especially when it concerns the so-called ‘Europe North of the Alps’. This book investigates the similarities and differences in material culture...Sawicki, Jakub ; Lewis, Michael ; Vargha, Mária
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2019
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Sicily: Heritage of the World
The island of Sicily is at the heart of the Mediterranean and from ancient times to the present day it has been a hub of migration and settlement. Following on from the British Museum’s critically acclaimed 2016 exhibition Sicily: culture and conquest, this volume considers the history and material culture...Booms, Dirk ; Higgs, Peter John
Sicily, Norman history, ancient history, medieval history, and archaeology
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1994
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Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum
Stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period, attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. The survival of large numbers of the seals, many dating from the period that was crucial to the development of...Granger Taylor, Hero ; Cowell, Mike ; Egan, Geoff
early modern history, medieval history, Seals, and history of textiles
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1990
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Faccombe Netherton: Excavations of a Saxon and Medieval Manorial Complex
An account of the 1907-1979 excavations of a Saxon and Medieval Manor complex in northwest Hampshire.Fairbrother, J.R.