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Bright lights in the Dark Ages : the Thaw collection of early medieval ornament / Noël Adams.

By: Adams, Noël
Contributor(s): Pierpont Morgan Library
Publisher: New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2014.Description: 381 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781907804250Subject(s): Thaw, Eugene Victor -- Art collections | Thaw, Clare -- Art collections | Decoration and ornament, Medieval | Jewelry, Medieval | Grave goods -- Europe | Material culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 | Europe -- Antiquities | Europe -- History -- 392-814
Contents:
Director's Foreword / William M. Griswold -- Preface / Eugene V. Thaw -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- Classical Traditions, Barbarian Styles -- New Enemies, New Allies : The Hunnic Period and Its Aftermath in the East -- Gothic Identity -- Merovingian Fashions -- Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia -- Barbarians and Byzantium -- Glossary -- Appendix: Provenance of Works in the Thaw Collection.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Shelves EEM 3.3 A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10020671
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

Director's Foreword / William M. Griswold -- Preface / Eugene V. Thaw -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- Classical Traditions, Barbarian Styles -- New Enemies, New Allies : The Hunnic Period and Its Aftermath in the East -- Gothic Identity -- Merovingian Fashions -- Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia -- Barbarians and Byzantium -- Glossary -- Appendix: Provenance of Works in the Thaw Collection.