Archive - Jewellery books by period - Medieval & Renaissance
The following titles have been noted by Jewellery History Today. Titles with a reference to JHT at the end are reviewed in that issue. To read the review (members only), click here.
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon Jewellery
Lowe Press, 2011, £15.45.
198 pages, paperback, 14 x 21.6 cm.
ISBN: 978-1447402060
Reprint of 1950 version, using original text and artwork.
Anglo-Saxon Jewellery
Shire Publications Ltd, 1974.
96 pages, paperback, 20.3 x 15.
ISBN: 978-0852632628
Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches: Typology, Genealogy, Chronology.
Boydell Press, 2008. £75. 496 pages, hardback, 9.8 x 6.6 inches. ISBN: 978-1843833628.
Treasures from Sutton Hoo.
British Museum Press, November, 2011. £4.99. ISBN 978-0714128252.
Viking
Vikings!
NMSE - Publishing Ltd, 2013, £6.99.
64 pages, paperback, 23.8 x 17 cm. ISBN: 978-1905267767
Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland of pieces from the Historiska Museet Stockholm. Includes much jewellery.
Brakteatstudier (vol. 25 of Nordiske Fortidsminder).
Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab, Copenhagen, 2007. £60. 195 pages, paperback, Danish with English summary. ISBN: 9788787483803.
Scholarly study of the classically-derived gold disc pendants used in 5th/6th-century Scandinavia.
Viking Jewellery from the island of Gotland Sweden
lulu.com, 2013, £1.87.
17 pages, e-book PDF, File Size 10.77 MB.
Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England.
OUP Oxford, 2013, £65.
328 pages, hardback, 24.8 x 17.8 cm. ISBN: 978-0199639526
The splendour of power: Early medieval kingship and the use of gold and silver in the southern North Sea area (5th to 7th century AD).
Barkhuis, Groningen, 2014, £39.95.
429 pages, hardback, 24.1 x 30.5 cm
ISBN: 978-9491431746
Groningen Archaeological Studies 28.
Sveagold und Wikingerschmuck aus Statens Historiska Museum Stockholm.
Cologne, 1968. 284 pages, paperback, German.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Kolnisches Stadtmuseum.
Medieval
Merveilles d’or et d’argent. Trésors cachés et savoir-faire de la Manche.
OREP, 2021, €25.
160 pages, paperback, French.
ISBN: 978-2815105477
Trésors romains, trésors barbares.
Römische-Germanisches Museum, Cologne and Credit Communal de Belgique, Brusells, 1979.
161 pages, paperback, 13 x 20 cm, French.
Bright Lights in the Dark Ages: The Thaw Collection of Early Medieval Ornament.
D Giles Ltd, 2014, £65.
432 pages, hardback, 21 x 15 cm.
ISBN: 978-1907804250
Kloster Einsiedeln: Pilgern seit 1000 Jahren.
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2017, €32.
160 pages, hardback, 24.1 x 24.8 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3775742283
Donations given to the pilgrimage site at Eisiedeln over 1,000 years
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe.
The British Museum Press, 2010. £45.
ISBN: 978-0714123301.
Nakit Sarmata u Banatu: sa pregledom sarmatskih nalazišta [catalogue of an exhibition of glass beads]
Narodni muzej, Vršac, Serbia, 1975.
70 pages, paperback, 15 x 22 cm, Serbian.
Published in association with an exhibition at Vršac.
Ornament & Jewellery - Archaeological Finds from Eastern Europe.
Artia, Prague, 1967.
180 pages, hardback, 31 x 24 cm.
Mittelalterlicher Schmuck. Slawische Funde aus tschechoslowakischen Sammlungen und der Leningrader Eremitage. German-language version, 1966.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa.
The Block Museum and Princeton University Press, 2019, $65.
304 pages, hardback, 9 x 11 inches.
ISBN: 978-0691182681.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Block Museum, Evanston.
Scotland's Early Silver: Transforming Roman Pay-offs to Pictish Treasures.
NMSE - Publishing Ltd, 2017, £19.99.
144 pages, paperback, 25.2 x 24.3 cm.
ISBN: 978-1910682128
Published in association with an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Drevnee zoloto. Orfèvrerie ancienne. Iz sobranija Muzeja istoriceskich dragocenostej USSR/De la collection du Musée des trésors historiques d'Ukraine).
Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1975.
unpaginated, hardback, 8.75 x 13.25 inches, Ukrainian, French.
Saints et diables au chapeau : Bijoux oubliés du Moyen-Age
Seuil, 2007, €10. 188 pages, paperback, 23.8 x 23.4 cm, French. ISBN: 978-2020917582.
Medieval hat badges
The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture.
Penn State University Press, 2021, $99.95.
272 pages, hardback, 8 x 10 inches.
ISBN: 978-0271092508
Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500.
V&A Publications, 2009. £19.99.
112 pages, hardback, 21 x 24.5 cm.
ISBN 9781851775828. JHT 9
Medieval Goldsmiths.
British Museum Press, 2011. £9.99.
96 pages, paperback, 20 x 21.6 cm.
ISBN: 978-0714128238.
Tesori dell'oreficeria. 25 secoli di gioielli.
Fratelli Fabbri Editore, Milan, 1973
125 pages, hardback, 31 x 27.5 cm, Italian.
Medieval Ring Brooches in Ireland.
Wordwell, 1998.
151 pages, hardback, 24.2 x 17 cm.
ISBN: 978-1869857240
Treasures of the Black Death.
The Wallace Collection, London, 2009. £17.99. ISBN 9780900785955. JHT 5
Constancia. Women and Power in the Mediterranean Empire of Frederick II.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 2022, free download.
52 pages, pdf, https://www.stanzeitaliane.it/en/constancia-exhibition-guide.
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York
Metal Art Production in Medieval Bulgaria. Jewelry craftsmanship in Bulgaria at the Middle Ages.
LAP (Lambert Academic Publishing), 2012, £39.
160 pages, paperback, 21.6 x 14.8 cm.
ISBN: 978-3659106354
Engraved Gems of the Carolingian Empire.
Penn State University Press, 1995.
254 pages, hardback, 8.5 x 11 inches.
ISBN: 978-0271014265
Gemstones in the First Millennium Ad: Mines, Trade, Workshops and Symbolism.
Susanne Greiff, Alexandra Hilgner.
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2017, $55.
250 pages, paperback, 8.3 x 11.7 inches.
ISBN: 978-3795432393
Le Trésor de Preslav. Reflet d'un âge d'or du Moyen Âge bulgare.
Louvre éditions/Somogy éditions d'Art, 2018, €19.
72 pages, laminated cardboard, 23.5 x 28.5 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2757214183
Published in association with an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris
Rituelle Kleidung und Schmuck.
Books On Demand, 2017, £8.90 (Kindle £3.49).
142 pages, paperback, 18.9 x 24.6 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3743154285
Goldschmuck der Völkerwanderungszeit.
Lang'sche Druckerei, Cologne, ca. 1960.
44 pages, paperback, 21 x 15 cm, German.
Published in association with an exhibition of the Sammlung Diergardt at the Römisch-Germanischen Museum, Cologne
Bagues Mérovingiennes: Gaule du Nord.
Les Chevaulégers, Paris, 2008. €48. ISBN 9782916996080. JHT 6
Gioielli franchi della collezione Carrand (Lo specchio del Bargello).
SPES - Studio Per Edizioni Scelte s.r.l., Florence, 1981.
22 pages, paperback, 20.6 x 13.4 cm, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8872420515
Towards an Art History of Medieval Rings.
Paul Holberton, London, 2007. £20.
ISBN 9781903470640. JHT 5
Medieval Jewellery.
Shire Publications, 1982.
48 pages, paperback, 20.4 x 14.8 cm.
ISBN: 978-0852635766
Germanischer Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters.
Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin, 1933.
54 pages, paperback.
Le dieci meraviglie del tesoro di San Gennaro.
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome, 2010. Italian text. €180.50.
ISBN: 978-8824010559.
Catalogue of an exhibition in Naples, 9/04/2011 – 12/06/2011 (see Exhibitions Archive).
Der Mainzer Goldschmuck.
Schnell uUnd Steiner, 2017, €39.95.
336 pages, hardback, 21.8 x 28.7 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3795432867
Published in association with an exhibition at the Hessischen Landesmuseum, Darmstadt.
Mons Sancti Laurentii, vol.4: szklana z wczesnośredniowiecznych cmentarzysk chełmińsko-dobrzyńskiej.[Glass Jewellery in the Early Medieval Cemeteries in the Chelmno-Dobrzyn Area]
Toruń, Poland, 2008.
246 pages, hardback, 30 x 21.6 cm, Polish with English summary.
ISBN: 978-8323122357
Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology.
Oxbow Books, 2017, £36.
192 pages, paperback, 24 x 17.3 cm.
ISBN: 978-1785703157.
Kindle edition £21.60.
Includes a chapter on non-elite dress accessories by Natasha Awais-Dean
Mediaeval Jewelry. A Picture Book
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940.
hardback, 7.5 x 5. inches.
"Et ils s'émerveillèrent": L'art médiéval en Croatie.
RMN, 2012, €22.
96 pages, paperback, 21.1 x 26.6 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2711860449
Published in association with an exhibition at the Musée de Cluny, Paris
Parures bijoux et accessoires dans l'archéologie Aveyronnaise, du néolithique au 17e siècle.
Musée Archeologique de montrozier, 1990.
141 pages, paperback, 24 cm x 16.5 cm, French.
Schmuck der Sächsischen Kurfüsten um 1600:
dissertation.de, 2009 (online publisher). German text. €99.90. ISBN: 978--3866244702.
Untersuchung zum Umgang mit Schmuck und dessen Funktionen im Rahmen fürstlicher Repräsentation und Kommunikation.
Jewellery of Princely Kiev. The Kiev Hoards in the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Related Material.
Schnell & Steiner, 2011. €76.
ISBN: 978-3795425371.
The Art of Medieval Jewelry: An Illustrated History.
McFarland, 2021, $62.43
91 pages, paperback, 7 x 10 inches.
Kindle $32.99.
ISBN: 978-1476681757
Finer than Gold: Saints and Relics in the Middle Ages.
The British Museum Press, 2011. £9.99.
ISBN: 978-0714128221.
Die Salier. Der Mainzer Schatz der Kaiserin Agnes aus dem mittleren 11. Jahrhundert. Neue Untersuchungen zum sogenannten 'Gisela- Schmuck' .
Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart, 1997.
134 pages, hardback, 29.6 x 21.6 cm, German.
ISBN: 978-3799541374
Bizuteria Gotów. Jewellery of the Goths.
Poznań, Muzeum Archeologiczne, 2004.
58 pages, paperback, 25 cm, Polish, English.
ISBN: 978-8391666289.
Published in association with an exhibition at Poznan.
Medieval Jewelry and Burial Assemblages in Croatia.
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2015, £92.
288 pages, paperback, 21.4 x 14.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-9004185531
1087 i costumi della traslazione normanni e bizantini . Donne, gioielli e promesse nuziali.
Edizioni di Pagina, 2011. €12.99. ISBN 9788874701315.
Catalogue of an exhibition at Bari on Norman costume and jewellery in a period of transition.
Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery: Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts During the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe.
Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 2015, £30.
102 pages, paperback.
ISBN: 978-1784912024.
e-version £19.
ISBN: 978-1784912034
Published in the Archaeolingua Central European Archaeological Heritage Series.
ОБЕЦИ С ФОРМА НА ВЪПРОСИТЕЛЕН ЗНАК ОТ СРЕДНОВЕКОВНА БЪЛГАРИЯ (XIII–XIV В.)
[‘Question mark shaped earrings’ and Eastern influence (especially of Cumans and Golden Horde) on Medieval culture.]
Georgi Vladimirov.
Уникарт ЕООД, [Unicart Ltd], Sofia, 2019, €7.
88 pages, paperback, 16.5 х 24 cm, Bulgarian with summaries in English, French, German and Russian.
ISBN: 978-9540139333
Nakit : magična moč oblike. [catalogue of an exhibition of medieval jewellery from Yugoslavia]
Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, 1992.
124 pages, paperback, 20 x 23 cm.
Published in association with an exhibition at Ljubljana.
Schätze des Mittelalters. Schmuck aus dem Staatlichen Archäologischen Museum Warschau.
Bönen, 2011. €17.
162 pages, paperback, 21 x 26 cm. ISBN: 978-3862060719
Published to accompany an exhibition at Brandenburg an der Havel.
Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters im Frankfurter Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Archäologische Reihe 7.
Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 1986..
84 pages, paperback, 24.8 x 18.8 cm, German.
Hundreds of… Medieval chic in metal. Decorative mounts on belts and purses from the Low Countries, 1300-1600.
Stichting Promotie Archeologie, Zwolle, 2012, £20.
152 pages, paperback, 22 x 18 cm.
ISBN: 978-9089321114
A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary.
Texts in Early Modern Magic, 2016, £27.40.
152 pages, hardback, 15.24 x 22.86 cm.
ISBN: 978-0992640446
Zolotye Ukrasheniya Gunnskoi Epokhi [Gold jewellery of the Hun era in Ukraine].
I.P. Zasetskaya .Aurora, Leningrad, 1975.
80 pages, paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Russian.
St. Petersburg Devlet Müzesi Ermitaj'ın Altın Hun Hazineleri ve Kutlu Mânâlar [Golden Ornaments of the Hun Period in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg].
Başakşehir Municipality – İstanbul University, 2017, 100,00 TL.
223 pages, hardback, 23.5 x 33.5 cm, Turkish.
ISBN: 978-6058262010
L'Or des Francs - Les bijoux mérovingiens dans l'espace Meuse - Moselle.
Musée du Pays Thionvillois, 2006, €14. 152 pages, French.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Tour aux Puces, Musée du Pays Thionvillois, France.
Renaissance
Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England.
British Museum Press, 2017, £40.
200 pages, paperback, 29.7 x 21 cm.
ISBN: 978-0861592098
British Museum Research Publication 209. JHT 32
Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Knowledge and Global Trade, 1450-1800.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, £89.99.
380 pages, hardback, 15.9 x 21.6 cm.
ISBN: 978-3319963785
The Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry.
The Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1966.
149 pages, hardback, 7.75 x 9.75 inches.
"Living nobly": Jewelry of the Renaissance Courts.
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Sandra Hindman (SJH members).
Les Enluminures, 2020, $18.
116 pages, paperback, 6.5 x 9 inches
ISBN: 978-2956702429
Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.
112 pages, paperback.
ISBN: 978-0865591776
Elizabeth I & Her People.
National Portrait Gallery, 2013, £30.
224 pages, hardback.
ISBN: 978-1855144651
Jewels from the India Run.
Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, 2014, €27.50.
199 pages, paperback.
ISBN: 978- 9898651082
Published in association with an exhibition at the Museo do Oriente, Lisbon.
London's Lost Jewels: The Cheapside Hoard.
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2013, £19.95.
272 pages, paperback, 24.6 x 19.8 cm.
ISBN: 978-1781300206. JHT 19
Jewels of the Renaissance.
Assouline Publishing, 2015, $195.
200 pages, hardback, 9.6 x 6.6 inches.
ISBN: 978-1614282037
Renaissance Jewellery.
Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1979.
424 pages, hardback, 18.1 x 10.8 inches.
ISBN: 978-0856670565
Enseignes: Renaissance Hat Jewels.
SPES, 1996, £85.
350 pages, hardback, 32.2 x 23.4 cm.
ISBN: 978-8872422717
I gioielli dell'Elettrice Palatina al Museo degli Argenti-The jewels of the Electress Palatine in the Museo degli Argenti.
Museo degli argenti, Florence, 1988.
180 pages, paperback, 24 x 21 cm.
ISBN: 978-8870381597
Klejnoty i stroje ksiazat Pomorza Zachodniego XVI-XVII wieku.
Wydawnictwo Krupski i S-ka, Warsaw, 1995. 143 pages, Polish.
Jewels and costumes of the princes of Western Pomerania XVI-XVII century in the National Museum in Szczecin.
Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and Their Marks.
Boydell & Brewer, 2017, £125.
724 pages, hardback, 2.1 x 2.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1783272389
In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion.
Royal Collection Trust, 2013, £45.
300 pages, hardback, 27.3 x 29.2 cm.
ISBN: 978-1905686445
Bijoux du quotidien - Un trésor picard redécouvert.
RMN, 2021, €25.
144 pages, paperback, 22.1 x 28.3 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2711878390 JHT 45
I gioielli dei Medici dal vero e in ritratto.
Sillabe, 2003.
232 pages, paperback, 27.6 x 24 cm.
ISBN: 978-8883471971.
Published in association with an exhibition at Florence
Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery.
Tate Publishing, 1996.
96 pages, paperback, 17.8 x 23.5 cm.
ISBN: 978-1854371584
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt.
British Museum Press,
Research Publications no. 227, 2021, £40.
196 pages, paperback, 20.32 x 28.58 cm.
ISBN 978-0861592272 JS 2022
‘A Marvel To Behold’: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII.
The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2020, £45.
398 pages, hardback, 24.4 x 17.2 cm.
ISBN: 978-1783275076
A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum.
British Museum Press, 2017, £40.
200 pages, paperback, 20.3 x 28.6 cm.
ISBN: 978-0861592128
British Museum Research Publication 212.
A Rothschild Renaissance: The Waddesdon Bequest.
British Museum Press, 2015, £30.
288 pages, hardback in case, 30 x 23.7 cm.
ISBN: 978-1851497843. JHT 24
Gioielli e gioiellieri milanesi: l'ornamento prezioso a Milano tra XV e XVII secolo.
Silvana, credito artigiano edizione, 1995.
224 pages, paperback, 28 x 25 cm, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8836605095