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Œuvres de Julian Munby
Edward III's Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344 (Arthurian… (2007) 21 exemplaires
The Archaeology of Cathedrals (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Monograph 42) (1996) 4 exemplaires
From Studium to Station: Rewley Abbey and Rewley Road Station, Oxford (OA OCCASIONAL PAPER) (2007) 3 exemplaires
Lost Ancestors: Island Families in 1765 on Eigg, Muck, Rum & Canna: An Edition of Neill McNeill's Census of Small Isles… (2007) 2 exemplaires
Great Coxwell Barn 1 exemplaire
Queen Elizabeth's coaches: the wardrobe on wheels 1 exemplaire
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Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2010 (2011) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Intersections: The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400-1200. Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and… (2010) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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But the enthusiasm for historical re-enactment goes back much further back than this, as this book (volume 68 in Boydell's excellent Arthurian Studies series) based on detailed documentary analysis and recent archaeological excavation shows. This fascinating study of a fantastical building takes a suitably multi-disciplinary approach, with its contributors including both the head of Buildings Archaeology and a Senior Project Manager at Oxford Archaeology, plus two experienced historians with overlapping expertise on the Middle Ages, Windsor Castle and the Arthurian legends. That building was the House of the Round Table at Windsor, built and then abandoned in the mid-14th century for plausible reasons explored fully and very clearly in the text. This short-lived yet extraordinary structure, 200 feet across, was intended to inaugurate a Round Table Order, with tournaments recreating imagined Arthurian ideals in a fusion of literary, political, architectural and social engineering. Sadly this never-completed British Colosseum was effectively forgotten after the victory of Crécy, and the mammoth Round Table Order it was meant to celebrate was jettisoned in favour of a slimmed-down Order of the Garter (151-2).
Supplemented with documentary appendices and splendid illustrations, this in-depth study explores the historical background to a modern archaeological discovery, detailing its analogues and inspirations, ultimately revealing that role-playing games are nothing new; it can't be praised enough.
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