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...this is a monumental study, a work of great scholarship with breath-taking illustrations. [...] an invaluable and comprehensive historical work. * Ancient Monuments Society * There is a good index, and pages are helpfully numbered consectively across the two volumes. A wonderful achievement. * British Archaeology *

The two volumes comprise work of lasting quality and importance. * Church Monuments * …a series of hugely important thoughts and conclusions about the material evidence which offer a new set of narratives about Henry’s presbytery and his place as patron of the new medium — Cosmatesque mosaics. * Medieval Archaeology * With their in-depth discussions and analyses, new insights and lavish illustrations, these two volumes are a truly monumental achievement and an essential resource for scholars. * Archaeological Journal * …this is a monumental study, a work of great scholarship with breath-taking illustrations. […] an invaluable and comprehensive historical work. * Ancient Monuments Society * There is a good index, and pages are helpfully numbered consectively across the two volumes. A wonderful achievement. * British Archaeology *

There is a good index, and pages are helpfully numbered consectively across the two volumes. A wonderful achievement. * British Archaeology *

...a series of hugely important thoughts and conclusions about the material evidence which offer a new set of narratives about Henry's presbytery and his place as patron of the new medium - Cosmatesque mosaics. * Medieval Archaeology * There is a good index, and pages are helpfully numbered consectively across the two volumes. A wonderful achievement. * British Archaeology * The two volumes comprise work of lasting quality and importance. * Church Monuments * ...this is a monumental study, a work of great scholarship with breath-taking illustrations. [...] an invaluable and comprehensive historical work. * Ancient Monuments Society *

There is a good index, and pages are helpfully numbered consectively across the two volumes. A wonderful achievement. * British Archaeology * The two volumes comprise work of lasting quality and importance. * Church Monuments * ...this is a monumental study, a work of great scholarship with breath-taking illustrations. [...] an invaluable and comprehensive historical work. * Ancient Monuments Society *

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Professor Warwick Rodwell, OBE, is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey. He is the author of Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel: The Archaeology of the Mosaic Pavement and Setting of the Shrine of St Thomas Becket (with David Neal, 2022), The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation (with David Neal, 2019), and St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire: Volume 1, History, Archaeology and Architecture (2011), all published by Oxbow Books. Dr David S. Neal, NDD, D.Litt, FSA, trained in graphic design and was head of archaeological illustration of the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, and later became Senior Archaeologist, English Heritage. He has many years of experience in the study, illustration and publication of mosaic pavements, and is joint author of the major work on the mosaic pavements in Roman Britain, Roman Mosaics of Britain (2002–2010). In 2012 he joined forces with Warwick Rodwell, to illustrate and analyze the assemblage of medieval cosmatesque mosaics in Westminster Abbey, in which they published The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs (Oxbow, 2019).

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