Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781843837596
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Oxbow says: Subtitled `A Patronage History', this book examines the commissioning and financing of works of art and architecture in the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries of south-west England from 1300 to the Dissolution of the monasteries... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268029845
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
With the aim of showing Saint Louis as he was commemorated in the literature of the Middle Ages, this book presents six previously untranslated texts: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited ser... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521863650
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521682275
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907396632
Published by : Hertfordshire UP
By 1300, England and other West-European countries had undergone a significant degree of commercialisation. More and more communities, both urban and rural, depended on an efficient network of local markets to obtain the goods they needed, in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907586125
Published by : Museum of London Archaeology
This guide to the unique theatrical venues of London, from 1567, when the first playhouse was built, to 1642, when Cromwell closed them down, sets out the rich dramatic history of this period in relation to the latest exciting archaeological e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801477812
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medica... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837602
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extensive variety of decorative tracery patterns, crafted in stone, that characterise the windows of medieval churches in England. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801477836
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
This is the first translation of Morkinskinna in any language and is aimed at a general audience with no prior knowledge of Icelandic. The translation reflects the language of the composition of the chronicles (1030-1157) rather than that of ... .... Learn More