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	Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $33.88 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories were part of everyday dress in the middle ages. Over two thousand such items dating from the period 1150-1450 are described and discussed here, all found in recent archaeological excavations in London - then as now one of western Europe's most cosmopolitan cities, its social and economic activity compounded by the waterside bustle of the Thames. These finds constitute the most extensive and varied group of such accessories yet recovered in Britain, and their close dating and the scientific analysis carried out on them have been highly revealing. Important results published here for the first time show, for example, the popularity of shoddy, mass-produced items in base metals during the high middle ages and enable researchers to identify the varied products of rival traditions of manufacture mentioned in historical sources. Anyone needing accurate information on period costume will welcome this book, which will appeal to the general reader interested in costume and design, as well as to archaeologists and historians. Lowest New Price: $23.35 - Total New: 15 Lowest Used Price: $23.35 - Total Used: 10
	Knives and Scabbards (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $26.56 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian burials bear silent witness to this dependence in the many cases where knives are found among the grave-goods. Forged and hafted with great skill, sometimes with elaborately decorated scabbards, knives are of intrinsic fascination, besides being indicators of the popular artistic tastes of the time.This book catalogues, discusses and illustrates over five hundred knives, scabbards, shears and scissors dating from the mid-12th to the mid-15th centuries and found in the City of London, particularly along the waterfront sites, where recovered items can be accurately dated by dendrochronology and coin finds. It is a fundamental work of reference for medieval artefacts and material culture, an essential handbook for excavators all over Britain and much of Europe. JANE COWGILL, MARGRETHE DE NEERGAARDE and NICK GRIFFITHS are former members of the staff of the Museum of London. First edition published in HMSO's 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London'. Lowest New Price: $22.16 - Total New: 12 Lowest Used Price: $26.55 - Total Used: 6
	London in the Age of Chaucer (Centers of Civilization Series) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks Price: $19.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Fourteenth-century London was noisy, dirty, and disorderly, but also prosperous, proud of itself, and full of life not yet dispersed to distant suburbs. It was described in 1326 as a "mirror to all England," and indeed it was. Trade was growing and the guilds were making their influence felt. If justice was not tempered with mercy, at least the law courts were open to the citizens. Fine churches, palaces, guildhalls, and other buildings were constructed, and fire laws were enacted. Sanitation was a monstrous problem, and twice during the period the Black Death wreaked its havoc, but Londoners persevered. The author deals with London life in all its varied aspects during the time of Chaucer-customs, laws, social conditions, trade, and general conduct of the city government. London was the magnet of society and fashion, a city of pollution and violence, yet a city of wealth and churches. It was also still a city where a man knew his neighbors and often even lived in the same house with his employer. As Chaucer walked the London streets, whether as a member of the royal household, as controller of the port of London, as clerk of the king's works, or simply as a resident above Aldgate, he would have met plenty of people he knew. He may well have met the originals of the prioress or the wife of Bath, the merchant or the sergeant-at-law, the physician or the summoner, or the host himself, Harry Bailey. London had enough variety, importance, and cohesion to have encompassed them all. Lowest New Price: $13.79 - Total New: 8 Lowest Used Price: $0.01 - Total Used: 16
	Locating Privacy in Tudor London Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $33.43 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and the Reformation are generally taken to have produced significant advances in individuality, subjectivity, and interiority, especially among the elite, but this study of middling-sort culture shows privacy to have been an object of suspicion, of competing priorities, and of compulsory betrayals. The institutional archives of civic governance, livery companies, parish churches, and ecclesiastical courts reveal the degree to which society organized itself around principles of preventing privacy, as a condition of order. Also represented in the discussion are such material artifacts as domestic buildings and household furnishings, which were routinely experienced as collective and monitory agents rather than spheres of exclusivity and self-expression. In 'everyday' life, it is argued, economic motivations were of more urgent concern than the political paradigms that have usually informed our understanding of the Renaissance. Locating Privacy pursues the case study of Alice Barnham (1523-1604), a previously unknown merchant-class woman, subject of one of the earliest family group paintings from England. Her story is touched by many of the changes-in social structure, religion, the built environment, the spread of literacy, and the history of privacy-that define the sixteenth century. Lowest New Price: $31.42 - Total New: 6 Lowest Used Price: $29.99 - Total Used: 1
	London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People 1200-1500 Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $65.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: This is the first full account of the evolution of the government of London from the tempestuous days of the Commune in the late twelfth century to the calmer waters of Tudor England. Caroline Barron shows how the elected rulers of London developed ways of dealing with both demanding monarchs and quarrelsome city inhabitants. The remarkable survival of the city's own records makes it possible to trace, in unexpected detail, the inner workings of civic politics and government over three hundred years. Lowest New Price: $59.10 - Total New: 9 Lowest Used Price: $67.84 - Total Used: 3
	Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London (Past and Present Publications) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $127.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: During the late Middle Ages the London ruling elite was increasingly influenced by the idea that a secret counter-society was operating in the city. Its members were suspected to be active mainly at night, to roam the city aimlessly and to be identifiable by three main characteristics: their latent, unmotivated and habitual penchant for violence, their sexual license and their disinclination to work. The rumours about this real and imagined 'milieu of the night' strongly influenced Londoners' perceptions of social relations within urban society. In wards, parishes, guilds and companies, people adapted their behaviour and gradually defined their own respectability in negative terms, in opposition to the new 'urban underworld'. The book sheds considerable new light on everyday life in late medieval London and its case study opens up wider debates about the relationship between morality and politics in Europe's cities in this period. Lowest New Price: $97.33 - Total New: 8 Lowest Used Price: $39.50 - Total Used: 10
	The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $375.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval England enjoyed a prominent role in London's governance and exercised much influence over England's overseas trade and political interests. Proving a comprehensive edition of the surviving Mercers' accounts from 1347 to 1464, this substantial two-volume set opens a unique window onto the day-to-day workings of one of England's most powerful institutions at the height of its influence.The accounts list income, derived from fees for apprentices and for entry to the livery, from fines (whose cause is usually given, sometimes with many details), from gifts and bequests, from property rents, and from occasional other sources, and then list expenditures, on salaries to priests and chaplains, to the beadle, the rent-collector, and to scribes and scriveners; on alms payments; on quit-rents due on their properties; on repairs to properties; and, on a whole host of other costs, differing from year to year, and including court cases, special furnishings for the chapel or Hall, negotiations over trade with Burgundy, transport costs, funeral costs or those for attendance at state occasions, etc. Included also in some years are ordinances, deeds and other material of which they wanted to ensure a record was kept. Beginning with an early account for 1347-48, and the company's ordinances of that year, the project then provides the entire block of accounts from 1390 until 1464.The material is arranged in facing-page format, with a faithful transcription of the original document mirrored by a modern English translation. A substantial introduction puts the material into its contexts and explains the accounting system used by the Mercers and the financial vocabulary associated with it. Exhaustive name and subject indexes ensure that the complete project is accessible and will become an essential tool for all studying the social, cultural or economic development of late-medieval England. Lowest New Price: $308.73 - Total New: 4 Lowest Used Price: $269.99 - Total Used: 2
	Saving the Souls of Medieval London (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $124.95 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the capital and surrounding countryside, and a theatre for the enactment of events of national importance. The cathedral was also a powerhouse of commemoration and intercession, where prayers and requiem masses were offered on a massive scale for the salvation of the living and the dead. This spiritual role of St Paul's Cathedral was carried out essentially by the numerous chantry priests working and living in its precinct. Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth century; and, until they were dissolved in 1548, they contributed greatly to the daily life of the cathedral: they enhanced the liturgical services offered by the cathedral, increased the number of the clerical members associated with it, and intensified relations between the cathedral and the city of London. Using the large body of material from the cathedral archives, this book investigates the chantries and their impacts on the life, services and clerical community of the cathedral, from their foundation in the early thirteenth century to the dissolution. It demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of these pious foundations and the various contributions they made to medieval society; and sheds light on the men who played a role which, until the abolition of the chantries in 1548, was seen to be crucial to the spiritual well-being of medieval London. Lowest New Price: $116.99 - Total New: 9 Lowest Used Price: $140.85 - Total Used: 2
	Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c.1000-c.1300 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $42.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: This book explores the full range of social, economic, religious and cultural contacts between England and the German city of Cologne during the central Middle Ages, c. 1000 to c. 1300. A wealth of original archive material reveals an extensive network of English and German emigrants who were surprisingly successful in achieving assimilation into their new homelands. From pilgrims to emigrants, crusaders and merchants to teachers, there existed a complex world of Anglo-German associations that will suggest a reconsideration of the medieval European world. Lowest New Price: $41.99 - Total New: 13 Lowest Used Price: $41.99 - Total Used: 4
	Within These Walls: Roman and Medieval Defences North of Newgate at the Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, City of London (MoLAS Monograph) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Price: $50.00 (It might be cheaper, visit top link) Editorial Review: Roman and later activity was recorded north of Newgate, with the Roman defensive wall and a medieval bastion preserved in the new development. Stream channels gave way to early Roman settlement, with the city's defensive wall built in the late 2nd century AD. The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired, with the area becoming the site of the Greyfriars Friary in 1225. The City's growth saw the ditch built over by the mid 16th century and the friary was suppressed at the Dissolution. By the mid 18th century most of the city wall had been demolished and the Giltspur Street Compter prison was constructed in 1787-91. Later buildings included St Bartholomew's Hospital and the General Post Office. Lowest New Price: $46.00 - Total New: 3 Lowest Used Price: $45.99 - Total Used: 2