Monumental Brasses


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Historic Costume for the Stage


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Costume styles include Egyptian, Roman, Greek, early Christian and Biblical, Gothic, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Romantic, and Fin de Siec̀le.




Standard Books


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Medieval People


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Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system. Yet in spite of the self-evident truth of this historical preposition we know little about life and thought in the watershed years when Europe was ceasing to be Roman but was not yet




Medieval People


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Classic study vividly recreates the lives of 6 ordinary people who lived between the 9th and 16th centuries — from a peasant on a country estate to a cloth maker.




English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages


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This is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.