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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages [Hardback]
Karen A. Winstead (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £25.00
ISBN: 9780198707035
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford History of Life-Writing
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion Maistre Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bovet: A Critical Edition with English Translation [Hardback]
Michael Hanly (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780866983266
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
In Honorat Bovet's reformist dream vision (1398), the shade of Jean de Meun leads a panel of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish speakers in castigating European chivalry and clergy for their dereliction during a time of war and schism. In a rare gambit... .... Learn More -
Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced [Hardback]
Connie L. Scarborough (Author)
Regular Price: £94.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9789089648754
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge. Connie L. Scarborough shows that physical impairments wer... .... Learn More -
Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe [Hardback]
Frederick W. Gibbs (Author)
Regular Price: £115.00
Special Price: £50.00
ISBN: 9781472420398
Published by : Routledge
Series: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
This book explores how late medieval and early modern physicians (c. 1250-1600) teased out the complex relationships between poison, medicine, and disease. It argues how such discussions must revise the standard history of toxicology, which does n... .... Learn More -
Richard II: A True King's Fall [Hardback]
Kathryn Warner (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781445662787
Published by : Amberley Publishing
Richard II is a figure famous in England's national myths - the king who went insane, the narcissist, the tyrant of Shakespeare's play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch or a crazed and vicious ruler. But Richard II w... .... Learn More -
The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meanings of the Medieval Edifice in the Modern Period [Hardback]
Stephanie Glaser (Editor)
Regular Price: £85.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9782503568133
Published by : Brepols
Series: Ritus et Artes
Volume: 9
The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period.
Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Goth... .... Learn More -
Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom [Paperback]
Timothy Barnes (Translator); George Bevan (Translator)
Regular Price: £25.00
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ISBN: 9781846318887
Published by : Liverpool University Press
John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father living in the latter half of the fourth century C. E. Much of his life and activities is contained in a funerary speech delivered by one of his former clergy membe... .... Learn More -
The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment [Hardback]
Henry Ansgar Kelly (Author)
Regular Price: £58.00
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9780812248340
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate style. This outstanding achievement, the Middle En... .... Learn More -
New Perspectives On Criseyde [Paperback]
Cindy L. Vitto (Editor); Marcia Smith Marzec (Editor)
Regular Price: £12.99
Special Price: £4.95
ISBN: 9781889818375
Published by : Pegasus Press
Thirteen essays focusing on the character of Criseyde in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Topics include: major critical trends; romance genre and costume; the anti-widow tradition; "reading"; objectification; gender roles; pedagogy and fe... .... Learn More -
Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon [Hardback]
William D. Paden (Author)
Regular Price: £49.99
Special Price: £20.00
ISBN: 9781442629349
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic,... .... Learn More
