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Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 [Hardback]
Derek Pearsall (Author)
Regular Price: £140.00
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ISBN: 9780859913454
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William Langland's "Piers Plowman" is one of the most important poems of the English Middle Ages. It is also a poem that gains in an exceptional way from the study of its manuscript sources. There is no need to emphasise... .... Learn More -
The Living Stream: Holy Wells in Historical Context [Hardback]
James Rattue (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851156019
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Explores the religious and cultural associations of wells and springs from the ancient world to pagan Celtic Britain and their subsequent Christianisation in the early medieval period. Rattue also looks at the role played by ecclesiastical hist... .... Learn More -
The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust [Hardback]
David Morgan Evans (Author); Peter Salway (Author); David Thackray (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851156712
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The vast amount of land and buildings under National Trust ownership carries with it a large burden of responsibilty with regard to management, restoration, and public access/education. The 27 articles in this book, written by prominent members... .... Learn More -
The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey [Hardback]
Claire Breay (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851157504
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One of the few surviving sets of records from an English nunnery, this book studies the cartulary, as well as manorial and episcopal records of Chatteris Abbey in Cambridgeshire. Breary discusses not only the records themselves, but their wider... .... Learn More -
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince [Hardback]
Stella Mary Newton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851151250
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1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume, foreshadowing the later luxury of Richard II's court. Stella Mary Newton draws on surviving accounts from the Royal c... .... Learn More -
Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous [Hardback]
James P. Carley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851154602
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From obscure beginnings (it may have been a holy place well before the Saxon invasions) Glastonbury grew to be one of the greatest abbeys in England, patronised by kings and magnates alike. Throughout the Middle Ages it was a Hous... .... Learn More -
The Saints of Gwynedd [Hardback]
Molly Miller (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851151144
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This study of the age of saints in North Wales is primarily concerned to establish, by means of carefully assembled lists, a basic set of tools for research for those concerned with this difficult but intriguing period of Welsh hi... .... Learn More -
England in the Fifteenth Century [Hardback]
Daniel Williams (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780851154756
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These studies of 15th century literature, art, architecture and history range over a number of converging themes which underpin the civilisation and structure of the late Middle Ages. Their combined effect is to establish the real... .... Learn More -
Patterns of Folklore [Hardback]
Hilda Ellis Davidson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859910422
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The four main essays in this collection look at folklore in relation to myth, history, literature and man's past, tracing the patterns that seem to repeat themselves but without imposing any preconceived generalisations of the kin... .... Learn More -
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Writer & His Background []
Derek Brewer (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780859912952
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These essays, all by well-known Chaucer scholars, discuss Chaucer's work in the context of the intellectual, social and artistic milieu of his time, and thus aim to make possible a richer understanding of the works themselves. Learn More