Religion
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Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300) [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
Regular Price: £52.00
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ISBN: 9780300176339
Published by : Yale University Press
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the f... .... Learn More -
Rethinking the South English Legendaries [Hardback]
Heather Blurton (Editor); Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor)
Regular Price: £80.00
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ISBN: 9780719084348
Published by : Manchester University Press
The South English Legendary is the major collection of saints' lives in medieval English. A medieval 'bestseller', with 50 or so manuscripts and manuscript fragments and nearly 300 separate items in circulation in various combinations and books fr... .... Learn More -
San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops [Hardback]
Richard Hodges (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780904152586
Published by : British School at Rome
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Volume: 17
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conserva... .... Learn More -
The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament [Paperback]
Michael Livingston (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580441506
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Like the Bible upon which it is based, the metrical paraphrase is unlikely to be a text read cover-to-cover by the faint-hearted. The Paraphrase is, in several ways, a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal ... .... Learn More -
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary Graces, East Smithfield, London [Hardback]
Ian Grainger (Author); Christopher Phillpotts (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781907586026
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Volume: 44
The abbey of St Mary Graces in East Smithfield, London, was excavated in 1983-8 as part of the Royal Mint site. Founded in 1350 by Edward III and suppressed in 1539, it was the only new Cistercian house in the 14th century and the last founded ... .... Learn More -
The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary [Hardback]
Kenneth Baxter Wolf (Author)
Regular Price: £71.00
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ISBN: 9780199732586
Published by : Oxford University Press
A study and translation of the testimony given by witnesses at the canonization hearings of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who died in 1231 in Marburg, Germany, at the age of twenty-four. The bulk of the depositions were taken from people who claimed t... .... Learn More -
The Company She Keeps: The Medieval Swedish Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria and Its Transformations [Hardback]
Tracey Renee Sands (Author)
Regular Price: £48.00
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ISBN: 9780866984102
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This study examines the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria — one of the most widely venerated saints of the medieval Christian world — in what was in many ways a far-flung and remote corner of Christendom. A number of recent studies have establis... .... Learn More -
The Call to Read: Reginald Pecock's Books and Textual Communities [Paperback]
Kirsty Campbell (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268023065
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
The Call to Read is the first full-length study to situate the surviving oeuvre of Reginald Pecock in the context of current scholarship on English vernacular theology of the late medieval period. Kirsty Campbell examines the important and innovat... .... Learn More -
The Mirror of Jaume Roig: An Edition and an English Translation of MS. Vat. Lat. 4806 [Hardback]
Maria Celeste Delgado-Libero (Editor)
Regular Price: £74.00
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ISBN: 9780866983983
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
This is an annotated edition and English translation of Jaume Roig’s Spill, a vast, mid-15th-century Iberian narrative poem composed in Valencian Catalan. The work is considered to be one of the most significant pieces of literature in that dialec... .... Learn More -
Salvation and Sin [Paperback]
David Aers (Author)
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ISBN: 9780268020330
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
In this book Aers explores various modes of displaying the mysterious relations between divine and human agency, together with different accounts of sin and its consequences. Theologies of grace and versions of Christian identity and community ... .... Learn More
