{"product_id":"the-story-of-the-middle-ages-folio-society-1998-moss-huizinga-mundy-barraclough-southern","title":"The Story of the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of the middle ages.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: The Folio Society, 1998. First printing. Maps by Reginald Piggott. 229 × 177 × 31–43 mm. 5 vols (see below). Type: Dante with a different type for display in each volume. Printed and bound by Butler and Tanner. Full red or dark green cloth with a design in purple and gold by David Eccles; white endleaves with facsimile manuscript printed in purple in reverse. Dark green five-volume slip case titled (as above) and patterned in purple and gold with the same design used on the binding. Each spine bears a different title and illustration. There are colour plates in each volume, showing contemporary manuscripts, tessellated pavements, statuary, bas-reliefs, buildings and artefacts. The five volumes are as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[1] The birth of the middle ages 395–814, H.St.L.B. Moss\u003c\/strong\u003e, introduction by D.J.A. Matthew. Pp. [i–iv] v–xxix [xxx], [1–2] 3–321 [322]: 17 pages of colour plates (recto of frontispiece blank). Display type: Herculanum. Binding colour: red. There are ten maps printed in the text. The work was first published in 1935.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[2] The crucible of the middle ages, the ninth and tenth centuries in European history, Geoffrey Barraclough\u003c\/strong\u003e. Pp. [i–iv] v–xii, 1–216 [217–220]: 17 pages of colour plates (recto of frontispiece blank). Display type: Charlemagne. Binding colour: dark green. There are three maps printed in the text. The work was first published in 1976. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[3] The making of the middle ages, R.W. Southern.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pp. [i–iv] v–xvi, 1–284 [285–288]: 17 pages of colour plates (recto of frontispiece blank). Display type: Goudy Text with Lombardic Capitals. Binding colour: red. There are no maps. The work was first published in 1953.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[4] The high middle ages 1150–1309, John H. Mundy.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pp. [i–iv] v–xvi [xvii–xxvi], 1–443 [444–446]: 16 pages of colour plates (recto of frontispiece blank, plate 3 double-page). Display type: DucDeBerry. Binding colour: 392 1998 dark green. There are maps on pages [xvii–xxvi]. The work was first published as Europe in the high middle ages 1150–1309 in 1973.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e[5] The waning of the middle ages, a study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth century, J. Huizinga\u003c\/strong\u003e, translated by F. Hopman. Pp. [i–iv] v–x, 1–341 [342]: 16 pages of colour plates (recto of frontispiece blank, plate 11 double-page). Display type: Clairvaux. Binding colour: red. There are no maps. The work was first published in English in 1924.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good set, the books with tight bindings and clean, uninscribed pages, with just a couple of shallow bumps to two corners. Housed in the very good slipcase that is a little scuffed and bumped, but structurally-sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54367905513811,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/The-Story-of-the-Middle-Ages-MOSS-Illustrated-FOLIO-SOCIETY-1998-First-Print_1.webp?v=1784704124","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/the-story-of-the-middle-ages-folio-society-1998-moss-huizinga-mundy-barraclough-southern","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}