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Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South [Hardback]
Perri Lee Roberts (Author)
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ISBN: 9780915977642
Published by : University of Georgia Press
Conceived in 1993 by Professor Bruce Cole of Indiana University and the late Professor Andrew Ladis of the University of Georgia, the goal of the Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections is to profile and illustrate e... .... Learn More -
Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China [Hardback]
Samuel N. C. Lieu (Author)
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ISBN: 9780719010880
Published by : Manchester University Press
In the third century A.D. the Syro-Persian Mani founded a highly evangelistic Gnostic religion in Mesopotamia which was to claim among its converts in the Roman Empire the young Augustine, and which was later to be seen as the inspiration for Paul... .... Learn More -
Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa María [Hardback]
Kathleen Kulp-Hill (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866982139
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This collection of the Cantigas de Santa Maria consists of 420 poems and songs gathered and set down by Alfonso X, "El Sabio" (The Wise) in the 13th century, recounting miracles performed by the Virgin Mary. That they were written in Galician-Port... .... Learn More -
Mehmed II the Conqueror and the Fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turks: Some Western Views and Testimonies [Hardback]
Marios Philippides (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983464
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This book represents a significant contribution to late Byzantine and early Ottoman studies and also adds to our knowledge of the Latin Levant and certain aspects of Renaissance history. There is a substantial literature on the fall of Constantino... .... Learn More -
God`s Armies - Crusade and Jihad [Paperback]
Malcolm Lambert (Author)
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ISBN: 9781681775319
Published by : Pegasus Books
Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad. In a narrative that brims with larger than life characters - among them, Richard Lionheart, Nur al-Din, Saladin, Baybar... .... Learn More -
Writing in a Speaking World: The Pragmatics of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions and Old English Poetry [Hardback]
Peter Orton (Author)
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Theodulf of Orleans: The Verse [Hardback]
Theodore M. Andersson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866985017
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A complete translation with commentary and introduction of the verse of Theodulf of Orleans (c.750-821), a key figure in the Carolingian Renaissance. .... Learn More -
Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, C.1400-c.1600 [Hardback]
Sheila Sweetinburgh (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866984829
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of case studies on the creation of identity in late medieval and Renaissance urban society. At a time of far-reaching political, religious, and social changes, towns were at the forefront of this t... .... Learn More -
Matthew Paris: The Life of Saint Alban [Hardback]
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor); Thelma S. Fenster (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983907
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This volume presents the first translation of Matthew Paris’s Vie de seint Auban, the great thirteenth-century chronicler’s life of the patron saint of his own monastery of St. Albans. In addition to its role within the monastery, this key text in... .... Learn More -
Matthew Paris: The History of Saint Edward the King [Hardback]
Thelma S. Fenster (Editor); Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780866983891
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Edward the Confessor (1003-66) was the last Anglo-Saxon king and, until the late fourteenth-century rise in the prestige of St. George, patron saint of England. He was greatly culted by Norman and Angevin kings, by none so intensely as Henry III. ... .... Learn More
