Presents a broad panorama of the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the War of Roses. Richly illustrated and with eighteen "Picture essays" highlighting the achievements of the age in architecture and the whole range of a…
"Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, mea…
"Apollo's Lyre is aimed principally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages."--Jacket
"Apollo's Lyre is aimed principally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages."--Jacket.