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English Medieval Coin Hoards
Volume 2 - Eighth to Eleventh Centuries
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780861592142
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
130 Pages
This book presents images and discussion of 20 English coin hoards, ranging in date from the 730s to the 1090s. All were studied by the late Marion Archibald at the British Museum but have never been published in full. Each hoard is the subject of a chapter with discussion of the discovery and the historical context and a catalog of the coins.
Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain and their Wider Context
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592364
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
250 Pages
This volume was prompted by the recent discovery in Britain of two large coin hoards dating from the first decade of the fourth century AD – Wold Newton and Rauceby. Coins of this early Tetrarchic...
Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum
The Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592326
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
200 Pages
Most accounts of the history of Greek and Roman medicine are based on ancient medical texts. As a study of the subject through its material remains, this book will be a unique contribution to the understanding of ancient medical implements and surgical instruments, of surgery, and of the history of medicine.
Late Hokusai
Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592319
Pub Date: 2023-10-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
250 Pages
A ground-breaking publication providing new insights into Katsushika Hokusai, one of the world’s most celebrated artists with authors from the UK, Europe, Japan and USA engaging with the oeuvre of late Hokusai from a variety of perspectives, both intrinsic and extrinsic to his life and works.
The Snettisham Hoards
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592258
Pub Date: 2024-07-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
350 Pages
First complete publication of one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe at Snettisham, Norfolk. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Iron Age culture
Sailing the Monsoon Winds in Miniature
Understanding Indian Ocean Boat Models
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592302
Pub Date: 2023-06-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
180 Pages
This book explores how models of non-European watercrafts – specifically those from the Indian Ocean – commonly found in museum collections in the UK and throughout the world can help us to understand traditional boats and boat-building practices, some of which no longer exist.
The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592333
Pub Date: 2022-11-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
192 Pages
This volume presents a new translation and analysis of the Hay manuscripts: an assemblage of seven leather sheets bearing Coptic ‘magical’ texts produced in the 8th/9th century AD. They contain a handbook, known as the ‘Hay cookbook’, and other formularies for protection, healing and cursing, some with an especially aggressive sexual character.
Munch and his World
Graphic Arts and the Avant-garde in Paris and Berlin
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780861592371
Pub Date: 2022-07-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
130 Pages
The art of Edvard Munch is striking for the originality and universality of its themes, which cross moments in place and time. Yet he was very much an artist of the 19th century, and the focus of this book is to show how especially in his prints and photographs Munch was enabled by technical advances to create an entirely new visual language.
English Medieval Coin Hoards
Volume 2 - Eighth to Eleventh Centuries
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780861592142
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
130 Pages
Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain and their Wider Context
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592364
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
250 Pages
Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum
The Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592326
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
200 Pages
Late Hokusai
Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592319
Pub Date: 2023-10-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
250 Pages
The Snettisham Hoards
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592258
Pub Date: 2024-07-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
350 Pages
Sailing the Monsoon Winds in Miniature
Understanding Indian Ocean Boat Models
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592302
Pub Date: 2023-06-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
180 Pages
The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592333
Pub Date: 2022-11-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
192 Pages
Munch and his World
Graphic Arts and the Avant-garde in Paris and Berlin
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780861592371
Pub Date: 2022-07-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
130 Pages