Language & Literature
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The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe [Paperback]
E. M. Rose (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9780190679194
Published by : Oxford University Press
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In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imita... .... Learn More -
Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation [Hardback]
Cornelia Linde (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9780198800972
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London
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The Dominican Order's exponential growth in the first decades of its existence brought with it the challenges of providing a stable organizational framework for the order and its members, and maintaining unity and cohesion, from local to provincia... .... Learn More -
Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility [Hardback]
James Knapp (Author); Peggy A. Knapp (Author)
£51.99ISBN: 9781487501914
Published by : University of Toronto Press
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Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure ... .... Learn More -
Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany [Hardback]
Claire Taylor Jones (Author)
£52.00ISBN: 9780812249552
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican learning and spirituality in the fourteenth... .... Learn More
Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 [Hardback]
Alison More (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780198807698
Published by : Oxford University Press
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Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once... .... Learn More
Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Medieval Rural Environment: Religion, Kulte und Rituale in der mittelalterlichen bäuerlichen Umgebung | Réligion, cultes et rituels au milieu rural médiéval [Paperback]
Christiane Bis-Worch (Editor); Claudia Theune (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9789088904868
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: RURALIA
Volume: XI
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The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and com... .... Learn More
Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Medieval Rural Environment: Religion, Kulte und Rituale in der mittelalterlichen bäuerlichen Umgebung | Réligion, cultes et rituels au milieu rural médiéval [Hardback]
Christiane Bis-Worch (Editor); Claudia Theune (Editor)
£180.00ISBN: 9789088904875
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: RURALIA
Volume: XI
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The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and com... .... Learn More
Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages: Prophets and Their Critics from Scholasticism to Humanism [Hardback]
Brian FitzGerald (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780198808244
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages rethinks the role of prophecy in the Middle Ages by examining how professional theologians responded to new assertions of divine inspiration. Drawing on fresh archival research and detailed study of un... .... Learn More
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity [Paperback]
John H. Arnold (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780198811176
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from... .... Learn More
Giannozzo Manetti: Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I-IV [Hardback]
Stefano U. Baldassarri (Editor); Daniela Pagliara (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674974975
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced... .... Learn More
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