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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

Ronald Jessup.

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

Ronald Jessup.

Shire Publications Ltd, 1974.

96 pages, paperback, 20.3 x 15.

ISBN: 978-0852632628

Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches: Typology, Genealogy, Chronology.

Seiichi Suzuki.

Boydell Press, 2008. £75. 496 pages, hardback, 9.8 x 6.6 inches. ISBN: 978-1843833628.

Treasures from Sutton Hoo.

Gareth Williams.

British Museum Press, November, 2011. £4.99. ISBN 978-0714128252.


Viking


Vikings!

Gunnar Andersson.

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).

Morten Axboe.

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

Dan Carlsson.

lulu.com, 2013, £1.87.

17 pages, e-book PDF, File Size 10.77 MB.

Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England.

Jane F. Kershaw.

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).

J.A.W. Nicolay.

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.

Kolnisches Stadtmuseum.

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.

Exhibition catalogue.

OREP, 2021, €25.

160 pages, paperback, French. ‎

ISBN: 978-2815105477

Trésors romains, trésors barbares.

Exhibition catalogue.

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.

Noel Adam.

D Giles Ltd, 2014, £65.

432 pages, hardback, 21 x 15 cm.

ISBN: 978-1907804250

Kloster Einsiedeln: Pilgern seit 1000 Jahren.

Markus Bamert.

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.

Martina Bagnoli et al.

The British Museum Press, 2010. £45.

ISBN: 978-0714123301.

Nakit Sarmata u Banatu: sa pregledom sarmatskih nalazišta [catalogue of an exhibition of glass beads]

Stanimir Baracki.

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.

Klement Benda.

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. 

Kathleen Bickford Berzock. 

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.

Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter.

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).

I.V. Bondar.

Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1975.

unpaginated, hardback, 8.75 x 13.25 inches, Ukrainian, French.

Saints et diables au chapeau : Bijoux oubliés du Moyen-Age

Denis Bruna.

Seuil, 2007, €10. 188 pages, paperback, 23.8 x 23.4 cm, French. ISBN: 978-2020917582.

Medieval hat badges

Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500.

Marian Campbell.

V&A Publications, 2009. £19.99.

112 pages, hardback, 21 x 24.5 cm.

ISBN 9781851775828. JHT 9

Medieval Goldsmiths.

John Cherry.

British Museum Press, 2011. £9.99.

96 pages, paperback, 20 x 21.6 cm.

ISBN: 978-0714128238.

Tesori dell'oreficeria. 25 secoli di gioielli.

F. Coarelli, I. Belli Barsali, E. Steingraber.

Fratelli Fabbri Editore, Milan, 1973

125 pages, hardback, 31 x 27.5 cm, Italian.

Medieval Ring Brooches in Ireland.

Mary B. Deevy.

Wordwell, 1998.

151 pages, hardback, 24.2 x 17 cm.

ISBN: 978-1869857240

Treasures of the Black Death.

Ed. Christine Descatoire. With Contributions by M. Campbell, C. Cluse, C. Descatoire, M. Dhénin, T. Husband, J. M. Fritz, O. Mecking, J. R. Müller, M. Schlapke, K. Sczech and M. Stürzebecher.

The Wallace Collection, London, 2009. £17.99. ISBN 9780900785955. JHT 5

"Et ils s'émerveillèrent": L'art médiéval en Croatie.

Domijan Miljenko et al.

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

Metal Art Production in Medieval Bulgaria. Jewelry craftsmanship in Bulgaria at the Middle Ages.

Stela Doncheva.

LAP (Lambert Academic Publishing), 2012, £39.

160 pages, paperback, 21.6 x 14.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-3659106354

Engraved Gems of the Carolingian Empire.

Genevra Kornbluth.

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.

Jannic Durand.

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.

Harry Eilenstein.

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.

Prof. Dr. Fritz Fremersdorf.

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.

Reine Hadjadj.

Les Chevaulégers, Paris, 2008. €48. ISBN 9782916996080. JHT 6

Gioielli franchi della collezione Carrand (Lo specchio del Bargello).

O. von Hessen.

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.

S. Hindman et al.

Paul Holberton, London, 2007. £20.

ISBN 9781903470640. JHT 5

Medieval Jewellery.

David Hinton.

Shire Publications, 1982.

48 pages, paperback, 20.4 x 14.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-0852635766

Germanischer Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters.

Wilhelm A. von Jenny.

Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin, 1933.

54 pages, paperback.

Le dieci meraviglie del tesoro di San Gennaro.

Paulo Jorio and Franco Recanatesi (eds).

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.

Theo Jülich.

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]

Małgorzata Markiewicz.

Toruń, Poland, 2008.

246 pages, hardback, 30 x 21.6 cm, Polish with English summary.

ISBN: 978-8323122357

Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology.

T. F. Martin and R. Weech.

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940.

hardback, 7.5 x 5. inches.

Parures bijoux et accessoires dans l'archéologie Aveyronnaise, du néolithique au 17e siècle.

Musée du Rouergue.

Musée Archeologique de montrozier, 1990.

141 pages, paperback, 24 cm x 16.5 cm, French.

Schmuck der Sächsischen Kurfüsten um 1600:

Christina Nagel.

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.

Ljudmila Pekarska.

Schnell & Steiner, 2011. €76.

ISBN: 978-3795425371.

Finer than Gold: Saints and Relics in the Middle Ages.

James Robinson.

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' .

Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm.

Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart, 1997.

134 pages, hardback, 29.6 x 21.6 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3799541374

Bizuteria Gotów. Jewellery of the Goths.

Tomasz Skorupka, Marek Chłodnicki, Mariusz Kuraszkiewicz, Rafal Witkowski.

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.

Vladimir Sokol.

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.

Luigi Spezzacatene.

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.

Maria Vargha.

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]

Mojca Vomer-Gojkovič, Nejka Uršič-Jesenik, Danica Radojčić, Marija Lubšina-Tušek, Milan Pajk.

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.

Egon Wamers.

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.

A. Willemsen, M. Ernst.

Stichting Promotie Archeologie, Zwolle, 2012, £20.

152 pages, paperback, 22 x 18 cm.

ISBN: 978-9089321114

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].

Irina Zasetskaya, Gözde Sazak.

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.

Catalogue

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.

Natasha Awais-Dean.

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.

Michael Bycroft, Sven Dupré.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, £89.99.

380 pages, hardback, 15.9 x 21.6 cm.

ISBN: 978-3319963785

The Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry.

Henry B. Caldwell .

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.

Art Institute of Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

112 pages, paperback.

ISBN: 978-0865591776

Elizabeth I & Her People.

Tarnya Cooper.

National Portrait Gallery, 2013, £30.

224 pages, hardback.

ISBN: 978-1855144651

Jewels from the India Run.

Hugo Miguel Crespo.

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.

Hazel Forsyth (SJH member).

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.

Yvonne Hackenbroch.

Assouline Publishing, 2015, $195.

200 pages, hardback, 9.6 x 6.6 inches.

ISBN: 978-1614282037

Renaissance Jewellery.

Yvonne Hackenbroch.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1979.

424 pages, hardback, 18.1 x 10.8 inches.

ISBN: 978-0856670565

Enseignes: Renaissance Hat Jewels.

Yvonne Hackenbroch.

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.

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Maria Sframeli.

Museo degli argenti, Florence, 1988.

180 pages, paperback, 24 x 21 cm.

ISBN: 978-8870381597

Klejnoty i stroje ksiazat Pomorza Zachodniego XVI-XVII wieku.

Barbara Januszkiewicz.

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.

David M. Mitchell.

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.

Anna Reynolds.

Royal Collection Trust, 2013, £45.

300 pages, hardback, 27.3 x 29.2 cm.

ISBN: 978-1905686445

Bijoux du quotidien - Un trésor picard redécouvert.

François Séguin, Julie Rohou.

RMN, 2021, €25.

144 pages, paperback, 22.1 x 28.3 cm, French.

ISBN:‎ 978-2711878390

I gioielli dei Medici dal vero e in ritratto.

M. Sframeli.

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.

Diana Scarisbrick.

Tate Publishing, 1996.

96 pages, paperback, 17.8 x 23.5 cm.

ISBN: 978-1854371584

‘A Marvel To Behold’: Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII.

Timothy Schroder.

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.

Pippa Shirley, Dora Thornton.

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.

Dora Thornton.

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.

Paola Venturelli.

Silvana, credito artigiano edizione, 1995.

224 pages, paperback, 28 x 25 cm, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8836605095


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