This is a list of books either owned by or avaiable to members of the Shire. If you would like access to any of these books, please contact whomever is listed under "Owner". If you want to add a book of your own to this list, you can do so here. If you would like one of your books edited or removed, or have any feedback on this system, contact the webminister at alex AT oakhaven DOT org.
Owner | Title | Author | ISBN | Category | |
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▶ | Karen Oxford | A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food, Processing and Consumption | Ann Hagen | 0-9516209-8-3 | Food/Cooking |
A fairly short book on the growing, conservation, preparation, and consumption of food during the 5-11h centuries in Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic west of Britain. | |||||
▶ | Nicolosa d'Isenfir | English Dancing Master | Playford | Dance | |
English Country Dancing manual version 1 (1651). Contains 100+ dances and music. | |||||
▶ | Everyone | English Dancing Master | Playford | Online | Dance |
Access Playford online for free, anytime. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/playford_1651/ | |||||
▶ | Shire / Nicolosa | Pennsic Pile#46 (printed & Bound) | Several | None | Music |
The 46th edition of the Pennsic Pile which can be found here: http://pennsicdance.aands.org/pennsic46/PennsicPile46.pdf | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | A Voyage Long and Strange | Tony Horwitz | 978-0-8050-7603-5 | History |
Covers exploration of the New World by various groups pre-1607 | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England | Ian Mortimer | 978-0-670-02607-4 | Daily Life in Period |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | How to be a Tudor | Ruth Goodman | 978-0-241-21549-4 | Daily Life in Period |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It | Dorothy Hartley | 978-0-486-42985-7 | Clothing |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | The Tudor Tailor | Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies | 978-0-89676-255-8 | Clothing |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | The Book of the Courtier | Baldesar Catiglione | 978-0-14-044192-5 | Daily Life in Period |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Rachel Dark | The Globe Restored: A Study of the Elizabethan Theatre | C. Walter Hodges | 9780192129413 | OTHER |
No description. | |||||
▶ | David Oxford | Henry V | John Matusiak | 978-0-415-62027-7 | History |
A biography/ discussion of the style of Henry's kingship in the context of his time. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity | Teodolinda Barolini | 13:978-0-86698-337-2 | Daily Life in Period |
A collection of essays by ten authors addressing gender and identity in the medieval period. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Encyclopedia of the Viking Age | John Haywood | 0-500-01982-7 | History |
An overview of the Viking era. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Pleyn Delia, Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks | Hieatt, Hosington, and Butler | 978-0-8020-7632-8 | Cooking / Food |
Redacted recipes in the original and in modern translation. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy | Phyllis Pray Bober | 0-226-06254-6 | Cooking / Food |
Views cuisine through the dual lense of archaeology and art history. Dinning habits, menus, and recipes. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | An Early Meal, a Viking Cookbook and Culinary Odyssey | Daniel Serra, Hannah Tunberg | 978-9-1981056-0-5 | Cooking / Food |
Viking cooking with period ingredients. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Care or Neglect? Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology | Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Erika Gal | 978-1-78570-889-3 | Livestock / Animal Husbandry |
Disease among domesticated livestock and signs of treatments. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England | Mark McKerracher | 978-1-911188-31-5 | Livestock / Animal Husbandry |
Farming revolution and the transformed economy of 7-8th century England. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Textiles and Textile Production in Europe from Prehistory to AD400 | Ed. Margarita Glenda and Ulla Mannering | 978-1-84217-463-0 | Textiles |
No description. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Iconic Costumes, Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography | Ulla Mannering | 978-1-78570-215-0 | Clothing |
A look at Iron Age costume based on gold foil figures, bracelets, stone carvings, jewelry and tapestries. Over 1,000 images. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | The Persians | Maria Brosius | 0-415-32090-9 | History |
Early history of Persia 559 bc and the thousand years following. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | Animal Husbandry in the Viking Age Town of Birka and its Hinterland | Bengt Wigh | 91-7209-227-0 | Livestock / Animal Husbandry |
Viking age animal husbandry at Brika. | |||||
▶ | Karen Oxford | The Medieval Shepard Jean de Brie's Le Bon Berger (1379) | Carleton W. Carroll and Lois Hawley Wilson | 978-0-88698-472-0 | Livestock / Animal Husbandry |
Translation of one of the earliest know " how to" books on shepherding. Practical info on care and breeding of sheep. |