Medieval Book Reviews

Masterpieces. Medieval Art
James Robinson (ed)
The British Museum Press 2012 (2008)

Anglo-Saxon Art. A New History.
Leslie Webster
The British Museum Press 2012

Early Medieval Northumbria. Kingdoms and Communities, AD 450 -1100.David Petts and Sam Turner (eds).
Studies in the Early Middle Ages. Vol 24.
Brepols 2011.

authoring the past 150x150 Medieval Book Reviews Authoring the Past. History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia.
Jaume Aurell
University of Chicago Press 2012

Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture. The Devil in the Latrine.
Martha Baless.
Routledge Stidies in Medieval Literature and Culture Vol 2.
Routledge 2012

The Serpent and the Lamb. Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation
Steven Ozment
Yale University Press 2001

Dressing Up. Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe.
Ulinka Rublack
Oxford University Press 2010

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