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Anglo-Saxon architecture / by Taylor, Harold McCarter,1907-1995.(CARDINAL)189560; Taylor, Joan(Joan Sills)(CARDINAL)201669;

Vols. 1-2 by H.M. Taylor and Joan Taylor; v. 3 by H.M. Taylor.Includes bibliographies.v. 1. Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Detailed descriptions of individual churches -- v. 2. Detailed descriptions of individual churches (continued). Plates -- v. 3. Primary evidence for Anglo-Saxon workmanship. Secondary evidence. Complete list of churches. Objects and general principles of typological studies. Major arches. Doorways. Windows. Belfry openings. Towers. String-courses. Plaster-strips. Hoodmouldings and stripwork. Quoins. Walls, plinths, and foundations. Anglo-Saxon church plans. Volumes and interior spaces. Decoration : capitals, imposts and sculpture. Roofs, floors and furnishings. Dating sequences and date-ranges.

Subjects: Architecture, Anglo-Saxon.;

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The architecture of the Anglo-Saxons / by Fernie, Eric,1939-(CARDINAL)173410;

Bibliography: page 188.

Subjects: Architecture, Anglo-Saxon.;

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Italian neighbors, or, A lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona / by Parks, Tim.(CARDINAL)751657;

An American expatriate describes life in Verona, the collision between invading surburbia and the die-hard peasant tradition, the architecture, wine bottling, and the Veronese

Subjects: Parks, Tim;

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The Vintage Mencken / by Mencken, H. L.(Henry Louis),1880-1956.; Cooke, Alistair,1908-2004.;

Contents (cont.): Travail -- A good man gone wrong -- The conedian -- Mr. Justice Holmes -- The calamity of Appomattox -- The new architecture -- The nomination of F.D.R. -- A good man in a bad trade -- Coolidge -- The Wallace paranoia -- Mencken's last stand -- Sententiae -- Exeunt omnes -- Epitaph.Contents: Introduction to the universe -- The Baltimore of the Eighties -- Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad -- Text for newspaper days -- First appearance in print -- Recollections of notable cops -- Theodore Dreiser -- Gore in the Caribbees -- Pater patriae -- Quid est veritas -- The art eternal -- The skeptic -- The incomparable buzz-saw -- A blind spot -- Abraham Lincoln -- Lodge -- Cavia cobaya -- The national letters -- Star-spangled men -- The archangel Woodrow -- The libertine -- The lure of beauty -- The good man -- The Anglo-Saxon -- Holy writ -- Afterthoughts. Masters of tone -- The noble experiment -- The artist -- Chiropractic -- The hills of Zion -- In memoriam: W.J.B. -- The author at work -- Valentino -- A glance ahead -- The libido for the ugly.A collection of essays by the distinguished journalist, representing the broad scope of his social criticism.

Subjects: American essays;

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Europe in the high Middle Ages / by Jordan, William Chester,1948-(CARDINAL)723858;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-354) and index.

Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Crusades.; Middle Ages; Kings and rulers, Medieval.;

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The making of our urban landscape / by Tyack, Geoffrey,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index.Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.

Subjects: Cities and towns; Urbanization; Urban landscape architecture;

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Empires and barbarians : the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe / by Heather, Peter,1960-(CARDINAL)362960;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 694-719) and index.Migrants and barbarians -- Globalization and the Germani -- All roads lead to Rome? -- Migration and frontier collapse -- Huns on the run -- Franks and Anglo-Saxons: Elite Transfer or Völkerwanderung? -- A new Europe -- The creation of Slavic Europe -- Viking diasporas -- The first European Union -- The end of migration and the birth of Europe."At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organized subsistence farmers, Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself"--Provided by publisher."Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. The emergence of larger and stronger states in the north and east had, by the year 1000, brought patterns of human organization into much greater homogeneity across the continent. Barbarian Europe was barbarian no longer. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together for the first time, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in the light of modern migration and globalization patterns. The result is a compelling, nuanced, and integrated view of how the foundations of modern Europe were laid"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Culture diffusion; Migrations of nations.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Empires and Barbarians : migration, development, and the birth of Europe / by Heather, Peter,1960-(CARDINAL)362960;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Preface Prologue Ch 1: Migrants and Barbarians Ch 2: Globalization and the Germans Ch 3: All Roads Lead to Rome? Ch 4: Migration and Frontier Collapse Ch 5: Huns on the Run Ch 6: Franks and Anglo-Saxons: Elite Transfer or Volkerwanderung? Ch 7: A New Europe Ch 8: The Creation of Slavic Europe Ch 9: Viking Diasporas Ch 10: The First European Union Ch 11: The End of Migration and the Birth of Europe Notes Primary Sources/ Bibliography."Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. The emergence of larger and stronger states in the north and east had, by the year 1000, brought patterns of human organization into much greater homogeneity across the continent. Barbarian Europe was barbarian no longer. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together for the first time, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in the light of modern migration and globalization patterns. The result is a compelling, nuanced, and integrated view of how the foundations of modern Europe were laid"--Provided by publisher."At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organized subsistence farmers, Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Migrations of nations; Culture diffusion; Civilization, Medieval;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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