The birds, especially in flight, and the falconers' tools are presented so superbly and so precisely that they put everything else in the shade.
Vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiels, xylophone and crotales combine with percussion to produce a decidedly strange atmosphere when merged with the gleaming, superbly defined, 16th-century backdrop.
All in all, this book is well argued and superbly conceptualised - an important addition to knowledge.
He was superbly skillful in resource mobilization and political image-making.
It has always been superbly illustrated, and has included colour figures as a matter of routine.
The superbly informative festival brochures with their red and white colour-scheme did nothing to obscure the national framework of the festival either.
Ultimately the main question in this superbly written study is that of unravelling meaning.
They are superbly researched and well written pieces, and should thus be enjoyed by all those who can savour a historian's craft.
