New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

medieval studies
Schmalkalden – Biberach
– Ravensburg
Städtische Entwicklungen vom
Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit
by Gudrun Clemen
This volume contains a study of the towns of
Schmalkalden, Biberach, and Ravensburg, from the
late Middle Ages to early modern times. Focusing on
topics such as craft production, guilds, long-distance
trade, publishing houses, the Peasants’ Wars, the
Reformation, social structure and hospital institutions.
German text.
393p, 6 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515093170,
$95.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, May 2009, Beihefte der
Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 203.
La Lingua degli angeli
Simboli e segreti della basilica
di San Miniato a Firenze
by Renzo Manetti
Renzo Manetti delves into themes of sacred medieval
architecture and its distinguishing symbols. Manetti
examines the symbolic language of the San Miniato
al Monte basilica in Florence as a Gateway to Heaven,
where powerful energies merge spirit and body. The
work supplements Manetti’s novel Il Segreto di San
Miniato. Italian text.
88p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859605508, $20.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, September 2009,
La storia raccontata 26.
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Die Kathedrale von Parma
Architektur und Skulptur im Zeitalter
von Reichskirche und Kommunebildung
by Manfred Luchterhandt
The cathedral of Parma is one of the most controversial Italian church buildings
– even today. This volume discusses themes from the cathedral’s construction
workshop and building body to the use of spolia and iconographic
planning processes. German text.
600p, 480 illus, maps, hardback, 9783777470054, $195.00(s), Hirmer Verlag,
June 2009, Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana 24.
The Churches Dedicated to
St Clement in Medieval England
by Barbara E Crawford
Une résidence des comtes d’Angoulême
autour de l’an Mil
Le castrum d’Andone – Fouilles d’André Debord
edited by Luc Bourgeois
A ‘hagio-geography’ of the cult of martyr-pope Clement that examines the
founding and distribution of churches dedicated to him in England and
Scotland in the late Anglo-Saxon and Viking era, and their often-assumed
link with the Danish settlement. Involves a close study of the topography of
early towns in England, and Norway and Denmark.
237p, illus, hardback, 9785901410677, $90.00, Axioma, December 2008,
Scripta Ecclesiastica 1.
The natural Andone outcrop was greatly changed by the installation of
a castrum in the second half of the 10th century. The objects that were
used and disposed of on the site bear witness to a large range of activities.
In this monograph, they are compiled to create a reference collection
that relocates it within a western European setting to allow a better
understanding of the daily life of powerful 10th-century people.
560p, illus, paperback, 9782902685660, $75.00(s), Brepols Publishers,
July 2009, Publications du Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Médiévales.
Sacrament Houses and the Body of Christ, c. 1270–1600
by A Timmermann
This is the first comprehensive book on the architecture and imagery of late medieval sacrament houses, those
dazzlingly complex micro-architectural structures designed for the paraliturgical reservation and display of the
eucharistic and ‘real present’ body of Christ. The study is embedded in a discussion of sacramental theology and
devotion, and traces the development of this genre of furnishing from the introduction of the Corpus Christi feast
in 1264 to the first decades of the Counter-Reformation.
400p, paperback, 9782503530123, $131.00(s), Brepols Publishers, December 2009, Architectura Medii Aevi 4.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009