Ancient & Medieval History

THE BRONZE AGE IN BARBARIAN EUROPE

Jacques Briard
THE BRONZE AGE IN BARBARIAN EUROPE
From the Megaliths to the Celts
This study shows the way of life of those Europeans living in the Metal Ages, describing their social and religious customs and setting out to undrstand through the material objects they have left us, the way their minds worked and their beliefs evolved.
246 pages hardback (Routledge & Kegan Paul/BCA, 1979)
Condition: BCA edition with slightly faded top pages edges, good d/w and owner's signature.

THE PUNIC WARS

Brian Caven
THE PUNIC WARS
Craven identifies the causes of the Punic Wars, recounts their turbulent events and describes their social and political background. He traces the successes and reversals in fortune of the two mighty protaganists throughout the land and sea battles in which the rival armies and fleets clashed with one another in Sicily, Italy, Spain, Greece and Africa.
308 pages hardback (Weidenfeld & Nicholson/BCA, 1980)
Condition: BCA edition hardback with faded top pages edges, slight tear on end front end paper where sticker removed, and owner's signature.

A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS

Gwyn Jones
A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS
Traces the development of the northern peoples and kingdoms from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute and the defeat and death of Harald Hardradi at Stamford Bridge in 1066.
504 pages hardback (O.U.P./BCA, 1975)
Condition: BCA edition with faded pages edges and grubby front end page and owner's signature.

EARLY GREECE

Oswyn Murray
EARLY GREECE
Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.B., Greece was transformed from a simple peasant culture into a civilisation which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt - a culture whose achievements in the field sof art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world.
Murray places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilisation.
312 pages paperback (Fontana, 1980)
Condition: has faded page edges

THE RENAISSANCE

Walter Pater
THE RENAISSANCE
A reprint of the 1922 Macmillan edition, which almost exactly follows the 1893 edition, the last known to have been revised by Pater himself. In this famous volume of essays Pater counteracts the Mid-Victorian view of the Renaissance as a period of artistic and moral decay. Through his "seductive cadences and eloquent unorthodoxies" Pater leads the reader beyond routine, lethargic responses to a subtle and passionate appreciation of an exhilarating age.
239 pages paperback (Academy Chicago Press, 1982)
Condition: good

THE BARBARIANS

Malcom Todd
THE BARBARIANS: Goths, Franks & Vandals
The "barbarians" of the classical world - especially the Goths, Franks and Vandals - have been traditionally dismissed as savage hordes who sacked Rome and destroyed her Empire. It is only the discoveries of modern archaeology that have established a true picture of these versatile Germanic tribes who originally inhabited north-west Europe beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire and who later penetrated every corner of Europe. Todd provides a vivid and rounded portrait of the daily life of Rome's northern neighbours.
184 pages hardback (Batsford, 1980)
Condition: hardback with dust stained page edges, top outside page edges are also slightly bent; has tear on front inside covers where a sticker has been removed and owner's signature. D/w is worn and grubby"

AZTECS OF MEXICO

G C Vallant
AZTECS OF MEXICO: Origin, Rise, & Fall of the Azrtec Nation
In the eleventh century the Aztecs arrived in Mexico from the north. In less than a hundred years they developed an extraordinary civilisation. Here is the strange story of that rise, and of the even swifter fall under the impact of Cortes and his followers.
362 pages hardback (Allen Lane/BCA, 1975)
Condition: BCA hardcover edition has dust soiled pages edges and owner's signature.