Robert is very cautious on these trips and sees it has hs job to act as my financial conscience (and having just dropped a wad on a special book for him, I was, in fact, skint in the book budget dept)...but I came away with three splendid titles to recommend, and to put on the wishlist.
BTW: BL Bookshop says 20% off all online shopping in September! Fairly reasonably priced imo, even better w/ discount.
This one's for
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Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts
Author:Joe Flatman
ISBN:978 0 7123 4960 4
Hardback, 144 pages, 280 x 216mm, 150 colour illustrations
£30
Vividly brought to life with 150 diverse images Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts paints a vibrant picture of maritime life during an era of unprecedented expansion.
Medieval Dress and Fashion
Author: Margaret Scott
ISBN:9780712306751 £17.95
This is the first book deliberately to focus on dress as it is depicted in the illuminated manuscript, and to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of illuminations as source material, as well as indicating how dress would have been understood by the manuscripts’ original owners.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Dressing the Great and the Good, c.840–c.1100
The Start of Fashion, c.1100–c.1300
Fashion and Formality, c.1300–c.1400
Dressing Everybody, c.1400–c.1500
Dressing the Present and the Past, c.1500–c.1570
Bibliography
Glossary Index 205
...and here I was torn - between fashion and calligraphy:
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500
Author:Jane Roberts
ISBN:9780712309035
Price £19.95 £15.96
328 pages, 12 colour and 70 b/w illustrations, 276 x 219 mm, Paperback
Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language there is currently no book available to introduce readers to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of the changes in scripts across time is via visual example, and this book seeks to show the reader just why Middle English is different from Old English and at the same time to explain how the change is gradual.
As you can imagine, it was hard to pry me out of the shop.