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George Henderson.
Early Medieval.

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 revised reprint (original edn. was 1972).
Series: Pelican Books: Style and Civilization.
ISBN 0140214208.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 129x197x15mm.
Page count: 272pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers rather scuffed and creased, in particular a heavy-ish vertical crease on the front cover, some wear at the edges and corners; covers and pages a bit yellowed with age; the spine is scuffed and rubbed but not creased from reading, and the text appear to be free of marking.


This item £3.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Toronto U.P. edn. in print at $28.95]
Weight without packaging: 335g.

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Contents: The barbarian tradition; An habitation of dragons; The uses of antiquity; Story-telling; De laudibus Sanctae Crucis.
Appendix: catalogue of illustrations.

Illustrations: 150, monochrome
Floorplans: 1

Introduction: pp
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes


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