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  1. The Making of the Margin

    The Making of the Margin: The Master of the David Scenes and Ghent-Bruges Manuscript Illumination [Hardback]

    Anne Margreet As-Vijvers (Author)

    £123.00

    ISBN: 9782503516844
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: Ars Nova
    Volume: 11
    The subject of the present publication is the working practices of the Ghent-Bruges illuminators, active in Flanders in the decades around 1500. Its focus is on manuscripts featuring freestanding, isolated motifs painted in the margins of text pag... .... Learn More
  2. Christological Nihilism in the Twelfth Century

    Christological Nihilism in the Twelfth Century: The Contested Reception of Peter Lombard's Senteniae [Hardback]

    C Monagle (Author)

    £53.00

    ISBN: 9782503527956
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: Europa Sacra
    Volume: 8
    Analysing the contested reception of Peter Lombard's masterful Book of Sentences after 1160, the author argues that this period was a time of hitherto unrecognised intellectual conflict and negotiation that was based in arguments about the constit... .... Learn More
  3. Strategies and Tactics in Medieval Hagiography

    Strategies and Tactics in Medieval Hagiography: Discourse, Church and Society in the Southern Low Countries, c. 920-c. 1320 [Hardback]

    Jeroen Deploige (Author)

    £62.00

    ISBN: 9782503515335
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: Hagiologia
    Volume: 7
    Based upon a corpus of nearly five hundred texts from the Southern Low Countries, this study offers a thorough analysis of the history of hagiographic discourse in the Central Middle Ages. The book opens with a theoretical discussion on the histor... .... Learn More
  4. Behaving Like Fools

    Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books [Hardback]

    L Perry (Editor);A Schwartz (Editor)

    £68.00

    ISBN: 9782503531571
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: International Medieval Research
    Volume: 17
    The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. There is almost no Arthurian hero without a phase of madness, and almost no gothic church without mocking misericords, not to speak of the spread of the literature and the iconography of th... .... Learn More
  5. Retext

    Retext: Late Medieval Literacies and Multilingualism [Hardback]

    Mark Amsler (Author)

    £62.00

    ISBN: 9782503532363
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
    Volume: 19
    Adapting critical approaches and concepts from New Literacy Studies, historical sociolinguistics, and close reading, Amsler analyses how late medieval writing and literacies in Latin, English, and French 'make people up' to create literate subject... .... Learn More
  6. Tristan and Isolde

    Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances [Paperback]

    SC Van D'Elden (Author)

    £88.00

    ISBN: 9782503530987
    Published by : Brepols
    The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. Resonances of it appear in other narratives, in poetry, and especially in art in the form of wall paintings, wall hangings, tapestries, bed coverings, tablecloths, and... .... Learn More
  7. Mortality and Imagination

    Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval and Renaissance Literature [Hardback]

    K Rooney (Author)

    £70.00

    ISBN: 9782503524313
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: DISPUTATIO
    Volume: 12
    There have been many books on the medieval culture of death, but this book is the first devoted to the use and representation of the dead in English medieval writing. Mortality and Imagination is a history of the literary 'life' of the dead... .... Learn More
  8. Grammar of Good Friday

    Grammar of Good Friday: Macaronic Sermons of Late Medieval England [Hardback]

    H Johnson (Author)

    £79.00

    ISBN: 9782503533391
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: SERMO
    Volume: 8
    This volume offers a study of Good Friday preaching and an edition (with modern translation) of five highly imaginative, rhetorically sophisticated macaronic (mixed Latin and Middle English) Good Friday sermons preached in late medieval England (c... .... Learn More
  9. Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery

    Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200) [Hardback]

    Ildar H Garipzanov (Editor)

    £76.50

    ISBN: 9782503533674
    Published by : Brepols
    Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe
    Volume: 26
    This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in ... .... Learn More
  10. Glendalough

    Glendalough: City of God [Hardback]

    Charles Doherty (Author);Linda Doran (Author);Mary Kelly (Author)

    £45.00

    ISBN: 9781846821707
    Published by : Four Courts Press
    The monastic site af Glendalough in Co. Wicklow is a magic place that captures many hearts. This volume contains 20 papers, some from a conference held by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, others from the IMC at Leeds and elsewhere, ... .... Learn More

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