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ISBN: 9780674053045
Published by : Harvard University Press
A new Latin-English edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed the lives of monks in monasteries across the medieval world. The rule, originally composed by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century covers all aspects of organisation, w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023630
Published by : Harvard University Press
In Charlemagnes Survey of the Holy Land, Michael McCormick rehabilitates and reinterprets one of the most neglected and extraordinary sources from Charlemagnes revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409420415
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Centered in the Carolingian age, these papers explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. S... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836612
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
These essays explore aspects of early medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The first half of the book focuses on historical, archaeological and epigraphic matters, with topics including political and ecclesiastical organisation, Viking age scu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199591442
Published by : Oxford University Press
Covering the period from his death in 814 to the First Crusade this intriguing study examines the Charlemagne legend, the well of stories and images of a golden age which writers throughout the medieval west drew on, developed, elaborated and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780802097064
Published by : University of Toronto Press
The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004206601
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments whe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268037321
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In addition to reassessing the available texts for the liturgy of the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish church this study considers the social dimension of the Eucharist, its treatment in art and architecture, and its treatment as reflected by ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409428824
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history. Rare is the survey that does not pause to mention their work among the pagan peoples of the North and their found... .... Learn More