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Portchester Castle
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Collectanea Historica
The essays are principally on the history of Kent.
A Commercialising Economy
This text focuses on a formative period in the development of the English economy.
The Rise of the Castle
Examines the rise of the castle from its European origins in the tenth century to c.1400.
The Military Orders
Scholarly interest and popular interest in the military orders show no sign of abating. Their history stretches from the early twelfth century to the present. They were among the richest and most powerful religious corporations in pre-Reformation Europe, and they founded their own states on Rhodes and Malta and also on the Baltic coast. Historians of the Church, of art and architecture, of agriculture and banking, of medicine and warfare and of European expansion can all benefit from investigating the orders and their archives. The conferences on their history that have been organized in London every four years have attracted scholars from all over the world. The present volume records the p...
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England
This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.
Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester
The six thousand objects recorded in these two volumes offer an unparalleled view of the Middle Ages. Ranging from the first products of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith's skill to the iron tenter-hooks of the cloth industry, the objects provide invaluable data for the study of social, artistic, economic, and industrial life in Medieval Winchester. Richly illustrated throughout and including thirty two pages of full-color plates, this comprehensive collection will be an valuable tool to medievalists and anyone with an interest in the Middle Ages.
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales
The second volume of a massive, illustrated survey of the greater houses of medieval England and Wales, first published in 1996.
English Hammered Coinage. Volume 1
The third revised editions of Jeffrey Norths two volume classic are newly reissued for 2018 to make them available to Spink customers for the first time in over ten years. Volume I includes hammered coins of the early Anglo Saxon, Viking, Regional Kings, Norman and Plantagenet periods up to the reign of Henry III, including 20 plates with hundreds of coin images, covering the dates c600 to 1272. Volume II covers the coinages of Edward I to Charles II from 1272-1662, the principal amendments to the third edition being in the coinages of 1279-1351 and the provincial issues of Charles 1; much new information was incorporated into the relevant sections in 2000 on the strength of important studies including the base shillings of Edward VI, the milled coinage of Elizabeth 1, the Tower shillings of Charles 1 and the mint of York of Charles 1.
