Eastern Europe book
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bunnyjadwigaOk, so I've had this book on PALCI loan for (how long?) and I don't have it copied and I haven't read it. But I've looked at the pictures-- pretty pictures.
_Eastern and Western Europe In the Middle Ages_. F. Graus, K. Bosl, F. Seibt, M.M. Postan, A. Gieysztor. With 132 illustrations, 16 in color.
London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1970
Some captions:
- "Fourth-century Alemannic pottery and iron tools from a grave in Illvesheim, near Mannheim"
- "Handmade Slav pottery of the fourt and fifth centuries, found in Poland."
- "Model of the ninth-century Saxon Stellerburg near Borgdorf"
- Reconstruction of a twelfth-century castle of earth and timber at Leczyca in Poland
- A hoard of coins, button and other objects buried after 925 and discovered in excavations at Obra Nowa, Poland
- Gold earrings from Stare Mesto, an artistic center in the March valley at the time of the Great Moravian Empire.
- Early Slav jewelry, including a fibula, earrings and a bead necklace, found in a sixth-century grave at Zaigetszenti-miklos-Haros in Hungary
- Magyars attacking a fortified town; drawing from the _Book of Maccabees, produced c. 924 in St. Gallen.
- King Stephen I of Hungary in coronation Robes
- Tomb of Casimir the Great of Poland in Cracow cathedral
- Conrad of Mazovia, his wife and two sons kneel in adoration before Christ in this patina
- Wenceslaus IV in his coronation robes, from a late 14th c. minature
- Louis the great of Hungary and his court; from the Hungarian Picture Chronicle
- St. Boniface baptizes the heathens; detail of a manuscript page from the 11th c. Fulda Sacramentory
= a priest or saint at prayer on a ninth-century amulet found at Mikulcice in Moravia
- Holy Women at the Sepulchre; mauscript page from the Vysehrad Codex
- The violent dismemberment of St. Stanislav, one of Polands most revered martyrs; woodcut from the Vita Beatissimi Stanislai (1511)
- The Golden Bull of Charles IV (1400) is one of the finest manuscripts produced in the court atelier of Wensceslaus IV in Prague. ... in the bottom margin.. king Wenceslaus is enclosed in his initial and surrounded by his bath-maidens.
- The Harvest of Death.. the Ploughman of Bohemia(c. 1460)
- Cloisonne enamel pendant made in Kiev (11th or 12th c.)
- 9th c. glass beakers and pottery imported from the mouth of the rhine.
- Ninth-century armlets from a silver hoard in Gotland. The Spiral ones were imported from eastern Europe.
- In this minature from an inventory of land taken by the monastery of Eichstatt in Bavaria (1497-1503) a nobleman, a burgher and a peasant are given plots of land in fief.
- silver earrings from Stara Kourim in Bohemia
- spurs and a girdle claps in situ at the feet of a human skeleton in Mikulcic, Moravia
- gold pitcher from the ninth c. treasure of Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary... originally owned by the Magyar Arpads
- grave hoard from Borucin, Poland, including silver buttons and a chain, buried in the first half of the eleventh c.
- silver tiara from Ceske Budejovice Bohemia (c1100)
- 11th c. silver bowl, stylistically a genuine product of Polish Romanesque art
- 12th c. Polish Bookcover
- twelfth-c. silver chalice from Novgorod.
- Head of the Virgin (1477-89) by Viet Stoss; from the high altar of St. Mary's church, Cracow.
- coronation of the Virgin; detail from the altar of Grudziadz in Poland, c. 1400.
- Anonymous portrait of Nicholas Copernicus (16th c.)
_Eastern and Western Europe In the Middle Ages_. F. Graus, K. Bosl, F. Seibt, M.M. Postan, A. Gieysztor. With 132 illustrations, 16 in color.
London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1970
Some captions:
- "Fourth-century Alemannic pottery and iron tools from a grave in Illvesheim, near Mannheim"
- "Handmade Slav pottery of the fourt and fifth centuries, found in Poland."
- "Model of the ninth-century Saxon Stellerburg near Borgdorf"
- Reconstruction of a twelfth-century castle of earth and timber at Leczyca in Poland
- A hoard of coins, button and other objects buried after 925 and discovered in excavations at Obra Nowa, Poland
- Gold earrings from Stare Mesto, an artistic center in the March valley at the time of the Great Moravian Empire.
- Early Slav jewelry, including a fibula, earrings and a bead necklace, found in a sixth-century grave at Zaigetszenti-miklos-Haros in Hungary
- Magyars attacking a fortified town; drawing from the _Book of Maccabees, produced c. 924 in St. Gallen.
- King Stephen I of Hungary in coronation Robes
- Tomb of Casimir the Great of Poland in Cracow cathedral
- Conrad of Mazovia, his wife and two sons kneel in adoration before Christ in this patina
- Wenceslaus IV in his coronation robes, from a late 14th c. minature
- Louis the great of Hungary and his court; from the Hungarian Picture Chronicle
- St. Boniface baptizes the heathens; detail of a manuscript page from the 11th c. Fulda Sacramentory
= a priest or saint at prayer on a ninth-century amulet found at Mikulcice in Moravia
- Holy Women at the Sepulchre; mauscript page from the Vysehrad Codex
- The violent dismemberment of St. Stanislav, one of Polands most revered martyrs; woodcut from the Vita Beatissimi Stanislai (1511)
- The Golden Bull of Charles IV (1400) is one of the finest manuscripts produced in the court atelier of Wensceslaus IV in Prague. ... in the bottom margin.. king Wenceslaus is enclosed in his initial and surrounded by his bath-maidens.
- The Harvest of Death.. the Ploughman of Bohemia(c. 1460)
- Cloisonne enamel pendant made in Kiev (11th or 12th c.)
- 9th c. glass beakers and pottery imported from the mouth of the rhine.
- Ninth-century armlets from a silver hoard in Gotland. The Spiral ones were imported from eastern Europe.
- In this minature from an inventory of land taken by the monastery of Eichstatt in Bavaria (1497-1503) a nobleman, a burgher and a peasant are given plots of land in fief.
- silver earrings from Stara Kourim in Bohemia
- spurs and a girdle claps in situ at the feet of a human skeleton in Mikulcic, Moravia
- gold pitcher from the ninth c. treasure of Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary... originally owned by the Magyar Arpads
- grave hoard from Borucin, Poland, including silver buttons and a chain, buried in the first half of the eleventh c.
- silver tiara from Ceske Budejovice Bohemia (c1100)
- 11th c. silver bowl, stylistically a genuine product of Polish Romanesque art
- 12th c. Polish Bookcover
- twelfth-c. silver chalice from Novgorod.
- Head of the Virgin (1477-89) by Viet Stoss; from the high altar of St. Mary's church, Cracow.
- coronation of the Virgin; detail from the altar of Grudziadz in Poland, c. 1400.
- Anonymous portrait of Nicholas Copernicus (16th c.)
