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Theodore K. Rabb, ed.
The Thirty Years’ War: Problems of Motive, Extent and Effect. (pb) £2.00


F. J. E. Raby and P. K. Baillie Reynolds
Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk; 2nd edn. (pb) £4.00


Bernard Rackham
The Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury Cathedral: A Guide for Visitors and Students. (pb) £5.00


James Rackham
Animal Bones. (pb) £5.00


Oliver Rackham
The History of the Countryside. (pb) £6.00


C. A. Ralegh Radford
The Bishop’s Palace, St. David’s, Pembrokeshire, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50
The Church of St. Mary, Stoke d’Abernon, Surrey. (pb) £5.00
The Early Christian and Norse Settlements at Birsay. (pb) £4.00
The Pictorial History of Glastonbury Abbey. (pb) £4.00
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (pb) £3.50


Roy and Ursula Radford
West Country Witchcraft. (pb) £6.00


Betty Radice
Who’s Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics. (pb) £2.00


Filippo Raffaelli and Fabio Raffaelli
Passegiate in Toscana e Umbria: Una scelta di itineri inconsueti per capire la terra dei Medici e dei Lorena, spaziando nella vicina patria dei santi e capitani di ventura. Tra storia e curiosità, due regioni ricche di suggestivi paessaggi e tradizioni gastronomiche. (hb) £6.00


Karl Rahner and Paul Imhof
Ignatius of Loyola; photographs by Helmuth Nils Loose. (hb) £6.00


Philip A. Rahtz
Excavations at King John’s Hunting Lodge, Writtle, Essex, 1955-57. (pb) £7.00
(w/ Leslie Grinsell & David Price Williams): The Preparation of Archaeological Reports; 2nd edn. (hb) £3.00
(ed.): Rescue Archaeology. (pb) £2.50


R. S. Rait, ed.
English Episcopal Palaces (Province of York). (hb) £8.00


Robert S. Raitt
Life in the Medieval University. (hb) £5.00


Sister Mary Dominic Ramacciotti
The Syntax of Il Fiore and of Dante’s Inferno as Evidence in the Question of the Authorship of Il Fiore. (pb) £6.00


Nigel Ramsay & Margaret Sparks
The Image of Saint Dunstan. (pb) £5.00


Daphne Rance
Who was Saint Hippolytus? The Man and the Legends. (pb) £7.00


Keith Randell
Henry VIII and the Government of England. (pb) £3.50
Henry VIII and the Reformation in England; 2nd edn. (pb) £5.00


Lt.-Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin Bt.
The Marquis d’Argenson/The Causes of the Fall of Richard the Second. (hb) £6.00


Francis Rapp
Christentum IV: Zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit (1378-1552). (hb) £10.00


Paul Ratchnevsky
Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. (hb) £10.00


Paulina Ratkowska
National Museum in Warsaw: The Medieval Art, Guidebook. (pb) £9.50


Muhammad A. Rauf
The Life and Teaching of the Prophet Muhammad. (pb) £10.00


Jack Ravensdale
In the Steps of Chaucer’s Pilgrims: From Southwark to Canterbury from the Air and on Foot. (hb) £6.00


John E. Ray
Hastings Castle. (pb) £4.00


Stuart A. Raymond
Cornwall: A Genealogical Reference; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50
Surrey and Sussex Family Histories and Pedigrees. (pb) £5.00


Maurice Raynal, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Élie Faure, E. Tériade
Les Trésors de la Peinture Française, des primitifs au XVIe siècle: Jean Fouquet, Pierre Villatte, Enguerrand Charonton, Nicolas Froment, Maître de L’Annonciation d’Aix, Maître de Moulins, Pol de Limbourg, Jean Clouet, François Clouet, Anonymes des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles. (card folio) £20.00


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Piers Paul Read
The Templars. (hb) £3.50


Armand Rebillon and Henri Sée
Le XVIe siècle. (hb) £6.00.


Mark Redhead and Richard Drewett
The Trial of Richard III. (pb) £4.00


Pietro Redondi
Galileo: Heretic (Galileo Eretico). (pb) £7.00


Richard Reece
The Later Roman Empire: An Archaeology AD 150-600. (hb) £6.00


Olwen Reed
An Illustrated History of Saints and Symbols. (hb) £10.00


Teresa Reed
Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts. (pb) £6.00


Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales. (pb) £7.00


David Rees
The Son of Prophecy: Henry Tudor’s Road to Bosworth. (pb) £5.00


Carole Reeves
St. Augustine: Apostle to the English, 597-1997. (pb) £1.50


Marjorie Reeves
The Medieval Village, 2nd edn. (pb) £3.00
The Medieval Village. (pb, original edn.) £1.50
Why History? (pb) £5.00


Mariann Sanders Regan
Love Words: The Self and the Text in Medieval and Renaissance Poetry. (hb) £7.50


Howard Reid
Arthur the Dragon King: The Barbaric Roots of Britain’s Greatest Legend. (hb) £6.00


William Reid
The Lore of Arms: A Concise History of Weaponry. (pb) £6.00


Ernest Renan
Études sur la politique religieuse du règne de Philippe le Bel. (hb) £15.00


Georges Renard
Guilds in the Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00.


Denis Renevey
Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs. (hb) £6.00
(w/ Christiania Whitehead, eds.): Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. (pb) £9.00


D. F. Renn
The Donjon at Pembroke Castle. (pb) £4.00
Framlingham and Orford Castles. (pb) £2.00


Alain Renoir
A Key to Old Poems: The Oral-Formulaic Approach to the Interpretation of West-Germanic Verse. (hb) £8.00


E. D. Renwick
A Short History of the Order of St. John. (pb) £5.00


Matthew Restall and Amara Solari
2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse. (hb) £5.00


James Reston, Jr.
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. (pb) £6.00
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. (hb) £6.00


Ladislao Reti (with Ludwig H. Heydenreich & Bern Dibner)
Leonardo the Inventor. (hb) £6.00


Timothy Reuter
(ed.): Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages: Essays presented to Karl Leyser. (hb) £25.00


Kathryn L. Reyerson and Marilyn J. Chiat, eds.
The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Contacts [festchrift for Carl D. Sheppard]. (pb) £20.00


P. K. Baillie Reynolds and F. J. E. Raby
Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk; 2nd edn. (pb) £4.00


Robert L. Reynolds
Europe Emerges: Transition Toward an Industrial World-Wide Society, 600-1750. (pb) £6.00


Susan Reynolds
An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns. (hb) £9.00


John Rhys
Celtic Britain. (pb) £6.00


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David Talbot Rice
Art of the Byzantine Era. (pb) £2.00
Byzantine Art, revised edn. (pb) £3.00
A Concise History of Painting, from Prehistory to the 13th Century. (hb)£6.00
Constantinople: Byzantium-Istanbul; photographs by Wim Swaan. (hb) £10.00
English Art 871-1100. (hb) £6.00
Islamic Art. (hb) £6.00
(dir.): Masterpieces of Byzantine Art; catalogue, 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50


Jeffrey Richards
Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great. (hb) £10.00


Julian Richards
English Heritage Book of Viking Age England. (hb) £6.00


Christine Richardson and Jackie Johnston
Medieval Drama. (pb) £6.00


J. S. Richardson
(w/ Marguerite Wood): Melrose Abbey; rev. C. J. Tabraham. (pb) £5.00
(w/ Margaret E. Root): Stirling Castle, 2nd edn. (pb) £1.00


Pierre Riché
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne. (pb) £8.50
History of education and Culture in the Barbarian West, Sixth through Eighth Centuries. (hb) £35.00


Samantha Riches
St. George: Hero, Martyr and Myth. (pb) £8.00


Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Geoffrey Chaucer. (hb) £6.00


Jasper Ridley
Henry VIII. (hb) £4.00


Roberto Ridolfi
The Life of Francesco Guicciardini. (pb) £10.00


A. G. Rigg
A Glastonbury Miscellany of the 15th Century: Trinity College, Cambridge, Ms. O.9.38. (hb) 20.00


Jonathan Riley-Smith
Hospitallers: The History of the Order of St. John. (hb) £30.00
(ed.): The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. (hb) £7.00


Claude Riot
Chants et Instruments: Trouveurs et jongleurs au Moyen Age. (pb) £12.00


Andrew Rippin
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices; 2nd edn. (pb) £6.00


Günter Ristow
The Baptism of Christ. (hb) £6.50
The Nativity. (hb) £6.50


John Ritchie and Alan Butler
Rosslyn Chapel Decoded: New Interpretations of a Gothic Enigma. (pb) £6.50


Nikolaus Ritt
Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English. (hb) £25.00


Paul Rival
The Six Wives of Henry VIII; tr. Una Lady Troubridge. (hb) £2.50


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Rossell Hope Robbins
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. (hb) £9.50


Luciana Roberti and Maria Chiabò, eds.
Index Verborum Hygini de Astronomia. (hb) £15.00


Andrew Roberts, ed.
Great Commanders of the Medieval World. (pb) £2.00


Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester
The Archaeology of Disease; 2nd edn. (pb) £9.50


David L. Roberts and Roger Miket
The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh. (pb) £4.00


Eileen Roberts
The Hill of the Martyr: An Architectural History of St. Albans Abbey. (pb) £6.50
The St. William of York Mural and the Altar of the Relics in St. Albans Abbey. (pb) £10.00


H. Ernest Roberts
Notes on the Medieval Monasteries and Minsters of England and Wales. (hb) £8.00


J. M. Roberts
Different Worlds. (hb) £2.50


Jane Roberts
Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII: Drawings and Miniatures from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. (pb) £5.00
(w/ Carlo Pedretti): Leonardo da Vinci: Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle / The Codex Hammer formerly the Codex Leicester. (pb) £20.00 for 2‑vol set


Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds.
Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. (pb) £6.00


Wess Roberts
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. £10.00


A. G. Robertson, Grace Derwent, Derek Brechin, Kenneth Derwent
Discovering London. (pb) 4-Vol. set for £7.00


Duncan Robertson, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, and Nancy Warren, eds.
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Religious Literature. (hb) £25.00


E. H. Robertson
Makers of the English Bible. (pb) £6.50


Elizabeth Robertson
Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience. (hb) £15.00


Ian Robertson and Mark Oxbrow
Rosslyn and the Grail. (pb) £6.00


John M. Robertson
Christ as Mediator: A Study of the Theologies of Eusebius of Caesarea, Marcellus of Ancyra, and Athanasius of Alexandria. (hb) £40.00


David Robey
Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy. (hb) £15.00


R. H. Robins
A Short History of Linguistics; 4th edn. (pb) £15.00


B. W. Robinson
Arms and Armour of Old Japan: Victoria and Albert Museum. (pb) £5.00


David M. Robinson
Beneficed Clergy in Cleveland and the East Riding, 1306-1340. (pb) £5.00
(w/ Colin Platt): Strata Florida Abbey/Talley Abbey. (pb) £4.00


Fred C. Robinson and Bruce Mitchell
A Guide to Old English, revised with texts & glossary; [3rd edn.] (pb) £3.00


Jerome and Elizabeth Roche
A Dictionary of Early Music, from the Troubadours to Monteverdi. (hb) £6.00


Warwick Rodwell
Wells Cathedral: Excavations and Discoveries. (pb) £3.00


Else Roesdahl
The Vikings. (hb) £6.00
The Vikings. (pb) £3.00
(w/ James Graham-Campbell, Patricia Connor, Kenneth Pearson, eds.): The Vikings in England and their Danish Homeland. (pb) £6.00


Caroline Rogers
Henry VII. (pb) £2.00


Ian Rogers, Piers Dixon, Jerry O’Sullivan
Archaeological Excavations at Jedburgh Friary, 1983-1992. (pb) £12.00


J. M. Rogers
(w/ R. M. Ward): Süleyman the Magnificent. [Exhibition catalogue] (pb) £6.00


Andrew Rogerson and Barbara Green
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Bergh Apton, Norfolk: Catalogue. (pb) £8.00


John Rogerson, Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, Anthony J. Saldarini
The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. (hb) £25.00


Floridus Röhrig
Der Verduner Altar. (pb) £6.50


Angiola Maria Romanini
Assisi: The Frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis. (hb) £25.00


Brother Ronald SSF
A Vision of the Way the Celtic Church Grew in Ireland, Pictland, Wales, Britain 600 BC to 600 AD. (pb) £3.50


Gabriel Ronay
The Lost King of England: The East European Adventures of Edward the Exile. (hb) £9.50
The Tartar Khan’s Englishman. (hb) £6.00


Marco Roncalli
Giubileo Sacro e Profano: Storie di pellegrini negli Anni del Perdono. (pb) £7.50


Lois Roney
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology. (pb) £7.00


Anne Rooney
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Guide through the Critical Maze. (pb) £3.00


Margaret E. Root and J. S. Richardson
Stirling Castle, 2nd edn. (pb) £1.00


Lyndal Roper
The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg. (pb) £10.00


James J. Rorimer, intro.
The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Prince of France. (hb) £15.00


Martial Rose and Julia Hedgecoe
Stories in Stone: The Medieval Roof Carvings of Norwich Cathedral. (pb) £4.50


Susan Rose
Islam Versus Christendom: The Naval Dimension, 1000-1600. (pb) £4.50


Philipp W. Rosemann
Peter Lombard. (pb) £14.00


Barbara H. Rosenwein
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. (hb) £25.00
Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe. (pb) £20.00


Fred Rosner
Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides. (hb) £25.00


Anne Ross
Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition. (pb) £6.00


Charles Ross
Edward IV. (hb) £5.00
Richard III. (hb) £8.00
Richard III. (pb) £6.00


Stewart Ross
Monarchs of Scotland. (pb) £6.00


Filippo Rossi
Italian Jeweled Arts. (hb) £20.00


A. P. Rossiter
English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Development. (hb) £6.00


The Earl of Rosslyn
Rosslyn Chapel. (pb) £4.50


Vladimir R. Rossman
Perspectives of Irony in Medieval French Literature. (pb) £14.50


Cecil Roth
Opportunities that Pass: A Historical Miscellany. (pb) £7.00


Guy Cadogan Rothery
Concise Encyclopedia of Heraldry. (pb) £2.00


W. Rothwell, W. R. J. Barron, David Blamires, Lewis Thorpe, eds.
Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in memory of Frederick Whitehead. (hb) £12.00


Sally Rousham
Canterbury: The Story of a Cathedral. £3.50


Trevor Rowley
(w/ John Wood): Deserted Villages, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50
The English Heritage Book of Norman England: An Archaeological Perspective on the Norman Conquest. (pb) £5.00


Beryl Rowland, ed.
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins. (hb) £6.00


Ingrid D. Rowland
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance. (hb) £9.00


A. L. Rowse
Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses. (hb) £3.00


Peter Rowsome
Heart of the City: Roman, Medieval and Modern London Revealed by Archaeology at 1 Poultry; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.50


Everett K. Rowson and J. W. Wright Jr., eds.
Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. (pb) £12.00


Ashok Roy, Susan Foister, Martin Wyld
Making and Meaning: Holbein’s Ambassadors. (pb) £30.00


Angela Royston
Robert the Bruce. (pb) £3.50


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Miri Rubin
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages. (hb) £12.00
The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary. (hb) £8.00
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary. (pb) £6.50


Mogens Rud
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Battle of Hastings 1066. (pb) £5.00


Conrad Rudolph
Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job. (hb) £15.00


Steven Runciman
Byzantine Civilization. (pb) £5.00
Byzantine Style and Civilization. (pb) £6.00
The Fall of Constantinople, 1453. (hb, book club edn.) £6.00
The Fall of Constantinople 1453. (pb) £6.00
The First Crusade. (hb) £4.00
The Great Church in Captivity: the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. (pb) £25.00
A History of the Crusades. (hb: 3 vol. set, Folio Soc.) £30.00
A History of the Crusades, vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. (pb) £3.50
A History of the Crusades, 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187. (pb) £3.50
A History of the Crusades, vol. 3: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. (pb) £6.50
Mistra: Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese. (hb) £8.00
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later 13th Century. (pb) £3.50
A Traveller’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs. (hb) £8.00


David Rundle, gen. ed.
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. (pb) £6.00


Graham A. Runnals and Philip E. Bennett, eds
The Editor and the Text. (hb) £20.00


James A. Rushing, Jr.
Images of Adventure: Ywain in the Visual Arts. (hb) £6.00


John Ruskin
On the Nature of Gothic; ed. Georges Roth. (pb) £4.00


P. E. Russell
Cervantes. (hb) £6.00


Boris Rybakov
Kievan Rus. (pb) £9.00


Jean Rychner
La Chanson de Geste: essai sur l’art épique des jongleurs. (pb) £6.00


T. A. Ryder
Gloucestershire through the Ages. (hb) £6.00


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