Art of the Middle AgesPaperback, 27 October 2007

Ranging from paintings and sculpture to stained glass, manuscripts and caskets, many of the objects presented here are of absolute rarity, some previously unpublished and - until recently - unknown.

Of particular interest are a recently discovered Anglo-Saxon Chrismatory, the first significant piece of its kind to come to light in well over a century; a walnut casket painted with illustrations of the Prise d'Orange, a unique piece dating from the thirteenth century and a miracle of survival; the beautiful, ninth-century Byzantine silk samite of confronting birds; and a panel of The Dream of Joseph, a fragment of twelfth-century stained glass from the Abbey of St. Denis - considered one of the most important of all monuments of medieval art.