Medieval Europe (c.1000-1500)
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God and Man in Medieval Spain: Essays in honour of Roger Highfield [Paperback]
Derek W. Lomax (Author); D. MacKenzie (Author)
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ISBN: 9780856684869
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Ten essays and a bibliography of Roger Highfield's writings. .... Learn More -
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Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England [Hardback]
Simon Phillips (Author)
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ISBN: 9781843834373
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller played a major role not only within the Order, but also in the wider arena of English - and indeed European - politics. This role, and its changes between 1272 and 1540, are the focus of this new book, which... .... Learn More -
Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 [Hardback]
Derek Pearsall (Author)
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ISBN: 9780859913454
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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 Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey [Hardback]
Claire Breay (Author)
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ISBN: 9780851157504
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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 -
England in the Fifteenth Century [Hardback]
Daniel Williams (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780851154756
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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 -
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Writer & His Background []
Derek Brewer (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780859912952
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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