‎HAWKES Jacquetta‎
‎A LAND‎

‎JEWELLERY FROM CLASSICAL LAND. ‎

‎LONDON. BRITISH MUSEUM. 1976. IN-8 DE 32 PAGES, RELIURE DE L'EDITEUR CARTONNAGE ROUGE, TITRE DORE SUR DOS LISSE, SOUS JAQUETTE ILLUSTREE. COLLECTION DU BRITISH MUSEUM, PERIODES GRECQUES ET ROMAINES JUSQU'A LA MORT DE CONSTANTIN EN 337. ILLUSTRE DE 20 PLANCHES HORS-TEXTE DONT 4 EN COULEURS. TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE. ‎

‎A CENTURY OF EXCAVATIONS IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS. ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 PLATES SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THIS VOLUME.‎

‎ LONDON. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. SANS DATE (1923). IN-8 DE 1 FEUILLET + 252 PAGES, RELIURE DE L'EDITEUR PERCALINE BLEUE, TITRE DORE. BON EXEMPLAIRE. ‎

‎This Land Is Your Land : Across America by Air‎

‎, Aperture Book 1997, 1997 Hardcover, 106 pages, English, 325 x 290 mm, book in fine condition, with pictures in b/w, . ISBN 9780893816049.‎

‎This Land Is Your Land offers a unique perspective on the American landscape, making the familiar fantastic, as well as an aesthetic experience of dizzying proportions. Marilyn Bridges takes us on an inspiring journey, as we look down together on the fleeting moments and lasting signatures of the United States that are etched on our continent. An aerial photographer who has explored ancient cultures around the world for more than a decade, Bridges has now focused her attention on a subject no less intriguing: the grandeur of America. By flying and photographing at low altitudes, and by maintaining a sensuous closeness with her subject, Bridges avoids the simplistic representation of landscape as mere design. Divided regionally, This Land Is Your Land accents the variety of America, but follows civilization's uneasy interaction with the environment as a common thread. We see the earth shaped and reshaped to service humanity. Monuments rise to celebrate our achievements even as nature wards off intrusion. Fledgling communities spring up among lava and sand. Scars left by clear-cutting, mining, and nuclear waste raise concerns for the future. Yet here, too, there is ironic wit. The towering presidential portraits at Mount Rushmore appear dwarfed by surrounding mountains. The Statue of Liberty hides in plain sight, completely swathed in scaffolding. From the intimacy of a farmhouse to the majesty of the Grand Canyon, Bridges's original vision provides an unequaled perspective on the land in which we live. In the Book's Essay by acclaimed writer William Least Heat-Moon, and the Afterword by Bridges, we are given insight into the photographer's working process and the inspiration behind her images. Certainly, This Land Is Your Land contains an urgent environmental message; in every photograph we sense a longing for a purer time, before humanity dismissed the land's indigenous curves and flow in favor of the urban grid. Still, Bridges offers no facile solutions or sentimental appeals. Faced with the jumble of American progress, we look for a vision of nature as idyllic--only to be awed by the savage forces unleashed by Mount St. Helens and the Kilauea volcano. Never what you expect, This Land Is Your Land provides page after page of visual surprises. The book inspires in us a haunting and profound admiration for a vibrant land which will prevail long after our civilization has gone.‎

‎Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Paperback, 292 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503510972.‎

‎For a better understanding of medieval and early modern rural society, in which land was the principal source of income and investment, as well as a most prestigious object of possession and a solid base of power, historical questions on landholding and land transfers are highly relevant. This volume aims to clarify some long-standing issues concerning the large variety of land tenure and non-familial transfers of land in the North Sea area by treating them from a regional - if possible comparative - perspective and by linking them to such structural features of preindustrial rural society as shifts in land to labour ratio's; social property relations; commercialisation and the rise of land, leasehold, and credit markets; the growth of state intervention and the institutional innovation that followed in its wake; the sustained prevalence of local or regional customary law; and the effects of social and cultural values on the demand for land. From viewing the later medieval and early modern period as a whole, one has to conclude that the mobility of agricultural land markedly increased. This was due first and foremost to the establishment of clear-cut private property rights, to the expansion of land and credit markets, and to the spread of short-term leasing. Differences in the pace of capitalist development as well as of state formation were mainly responsible for outspoken regional differences. Languages: English.‎

‎Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, viii + 265 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 20 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593883.‎

‎Summary Crusading and western interaction with the Holy Land is often a contentious topic, not least because modern popular perception of medieval east-west contact is that it was defined by violence, conquest, and religious persecution. Building on recent scholarship, this collection of essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to the role of crusading and contact with the Holy Land in medieval Britain in order to investigate the myriad ways in which these contacts influenced artistic, literary, visual, and social culture in medieval Britain. By looking at new material and focusing on the domestic response to crusading and the Holy Land, the contributions gathered here offer new insights into the influence of these contacts on the medieval British world view, as well as their impact on topics such as ideals about masculinity and kingship, geographical perception, and aspirational codes of conduct for the medieval British elite. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction. Ideas of Crusading and the Holy Land in Medieval Britain Kathryn Hurlock and Laura J. Whatley Chapter 1. (Visualising) Jerusalem in Early Medieval England Meg Boulton Chapter 2. Europe and the Holy Land in the British Branch of the Imago mundi Tradition Natalia I. Petrovskaia Chapter 3. Remembering and Mythologizing Richard. Translation and the Representation of the Crusader King in Latin and French Accounts of Richard I's Expedition to the Holy Land Marianne Ailes Chapter 4. 'As You Came from the Holy Land'. Medieval Pilgrimage to Walsingham and its Crusader Contexts Elisa A. Foster Chapter 5. Bodies or Buildings? Visual Translations of Jerusalem and Dynastic Memories in Medieval England Laura Slater Chapter 6. Family, Faith, and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Late and Post-Medieval Wales Kathryn Hurlock Chapter 7. Eleanor de Quincy and Imagined Crusading in the Lambeth Apocalypse (London, Lambeth Palace, MS 209) Laura J. Whatley Chapter 8. A Royal Crusade Chronicle. Visual Exempla in King Edward IV's Royal Eracles (London, British Library, Royal MS 15 E I) Erin K. Donovan Chapter 9. Refashioning Henry VIII as a Crusader King: Edward I, Crusading and Ideal Kingship in BL, Royal MS 18 XXVI Katherine J. Lewis‎