Just some of the books I found by searching for ‘medieval’ in the Oxfam online shop last week, during a work call—in ascending order of price
by Anonymous
September 2023
Medieval graffiti by M. Champion
Our churches are full of hidden messages from years gone by and for centuries these carved writings and artworks have lain largely unnoticed. £9.99
Birds in medieval manuscripts by Brunsdon Yapp
The illuminations in many medieval manuscripts include depictions of birds, but this is the first book to be published about them. £10.99
Medieval cats by Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Among the amusing anecdotes are tales of cats having free rein of dining halls, prompting books of manners to admonish owners for petting cats while they sat on the dining table. £14.99
Sexual Practices & The Medieval Church by Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage
The condition of the book is good and the pages inside the book are clean. The spine has cracked but the book is still intact. £15.00
The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical (sic) culture by Diane Elizabeth Mason
Provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. £15.99
Crime in medieval Europe by Trevor Dean
What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? £18.00
The culinary recipes of Medieval England compiled and translated by Constance B. Hieatt
The beauty of this book is that it addresses the corpus as a whole and abstracts from it paradigm recipes for every medieval dish that we know about. £20.00
Reynard, Renart, Reinaert and Other Foxes in Medieval England by Kenneth Varty
Struck by the richness of medieval animal epic on the Continent and its paucity in England until Caxton's translation from the Dutch, the author went in search of iconographic evidence of that epic in pre-Caxton England. £24.99
Medieval Flegg by Barbara Cornford
Illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and tables. £25.00
The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Block Friedman
During the Middle Ages, travelers in Africa and Asia reported that monstrous races thrived beyond the boundaries of the known world. £26.99
Medieval Effigial Alabaster Tombs in Yorkshire by Pauline E. Routh
An illustrated survey of the nearly sixty surviving examples in Yorkshire of medieval alabaster effigies. £30.00
Discover Medieval Sandwich by Helen Clarke
Though the town can be seen as the hero of this book, the people of Sandwich are there too; some serve as mayors and members of parliament, others brew beer and own bowling alleys. £36.99
The Making Of Medieval Forgeries by Alfred Hiatt
The Middle Ages are famous for spectacular forgeries. Very good hardback in black cloth with a good dust wrapper which has a 4 cm tear to front fold over, and some creasing along the top - still good, bright and colourful. £37.50
Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England by J. Stopford
The medieval floor tile assemblage in this region is one of the richest in the world. £75.00
Medieval marriage sermons by D. L. d'Avray
Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the Middle Ages. £80.00
Medieval monsters by Sherry C. M Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman
Monsters possess transformative powers, rendering them at once profoundly dangerous and utterly fascinating. £258.99
