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Author: David H. Caldwell
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905267941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.
Author: David H. Caldwell
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905267460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.
Author: David H. Caldwell
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905267859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in association with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1137279370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects.Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780860917854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author: James Robinson
Publisher: British Museum Publications Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780714150239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lewis chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, they consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns. This book takes a look at the many theories surrounding the ownership of the pieces, why they were hidden and how exactly they were discovered, and places them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular culture of the Middle Ages.
Author: E. R. Truitt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-06-11
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0812246977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Author: Michael Foreman
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0763642711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape.
Author: Alan McKirdy
Publisher:
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781910682449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Goldberg
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781910682401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A cache of over 100 gold, silver and other items, the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, was unearthed by a metal detectorist in 2014. A large fundraising campaign ensured that what has come to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Having lain undiscovered since the beginning of the 10th century, it now provides an extremely rare opportunity to research and reveal many lost aspects of the Viking Age. There is a chance to see the treasure at the National Museum of Scotland 18 February - 18 October 21. The exhibition will subsequently go on tour to Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen and Dundee.The accompanying book places the hoard in a wider historical context and showcases the conservation and research work currently being undertaken to understand the hoard and its secrets. Exhibition: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (29.05.-12.09.2021) / Kirkcudbright Galleries, UK (10.2021) / Aberdeen Archives, UK (2022).
