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Suffolk, Woodbridge: D.S.Brewer, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As new/As new. 8vo. x, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Brown boards. Footnotes with references. List of Manuscripts. Bibliography: (p. 274-292) Contents: The influence of the past -- Durham and the Norman world -- Manuscript production at Durham in the early twelfth century -- Pictorial narrative and the cult of St. Cuthbert : Oxford, University College, MS 165 -- The Benedictine revival in Northumbria -- Power and cultural identity I : Durham and the anarchy -- Power and cultural identity II : Durham and its books, c. 1120-c. 1160 -- The Augustinians and their libraries -- The Cistercians and their libraries -- Readers of Bede : the importance of Bede in the revival of Northumbrian monasticism -- Aelred of Rievaulx.

London: The Hambledon Press, 1982. Softcover. Good. 8vo. xii, 288 p, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Light wear, bottom right corner creased. Page edges slightly toned. Footnotes with bibliographical references. From the Library of Professor D. Rollason & Dr L. Rollason of the Medieval History Department at Durham University.Contents: The Tenth-Century Condition -- Henry I and the Beginnings of the Saxon Empire -- The Battle at the Lech, 955 -- Ottonian Government -- The Tenth Century in Byzantine-Western Relationships -- The Polemics of the Papal Revolution -- The German Aristocracy from the Ninth to the Early Twelfth Century: A Historical and Cultural Sketch -- England and the Empire in the Early Twelfth Century -- Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II and the Hand of St. James -- Some Reflections on Twelfth-Century Kings and Kingship -- The Emperor Frederick II.

Basingstoke: MacMillan Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. 8vo. xxi, 284 p. The dust-jacket has veryn light wear, and is now in a protective jacket. Red stamp to the title page.* Notes with references at the end of each chapter. Bibliography: (p. 254-276) Note: The red stamp says "this book was damaged in transit and now sold at a reduced rate" - I have been unable to see any damage, apart from this stamp.

Aldershot: Variorum, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 8vo. xvi, 278 p.: ill., maps. Light wear. The dust-jacket is in a protective jacket. Footnotes with bibliographical references. Contents: Spring Symposia of Byzantine Studies: a record -- 1. St. Athanasios the Athonite: traditionalist or innovator? / Kallistos Ware -- 2. Symeon the New Theologian (d. 1022) and Byzantine monasticism / John A. McGuckin -- 3. The origins of Athos / Rosemary Morris -- 4. Byzantine monasteries in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Synaxis, Mt. Papikion, St. John Prodromos Monastery) / Ch. Bakirtzis -- 5. The Athonite monastic tradition during the eleventh and early twelfth centuries / Dirk Krausmuller -- 6. Women and Mt. Athos / Alice-Mary Talbot -- 7. Athos: a working community / Archimandrite Ephrem Lash -- 8. The monastic economy and imperial patronage from the tenth to the twelfth centuries / Alan Harvey -- 9. Patronage in Palaiologan Mt. Athos / Nikolaos Oikonomides -- 10. The buildings of Vatopedi… Read More