Religion
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Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett [Hardback]
Cate Gunn (Editor); Catherine Innes-Parker (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781903153291
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. Ranging historically from the difficulties of localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts to the reading of wo... .... Learn More -
Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842173886
Published by : Oxbow Books
Dorchester-on-Thames and its abbey have been subjects of antiquarian interest for more than 450 years, and during that time much has been written about them. They are, however, still far from being comprehensively studied and recorded. Indeed, ... .... Learn More -
Norton Priory [Hardback]
Fraser Brown (Editor); Christine Howard-Davis (Author)
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ISBN: 9780904220520
Published by : Oxford Archaeology North
Series: Lancaster Imprints
Volume: 16
The Priory of St Mary was moved from Runcorn to Norton in 1134 by William fitz William, third baron of Halton. Despite a major fire in 1236, Norton grew in size and stature to become an abbey in 1391, and its abbot was a senior and much respect... .... Learn More -
Singing The New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England [Hardback]
Katherine Zieman (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812240511
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Many studies of literacy and liturgy in the late medieval period examine the rise of the vernacular and the shift from orality and the performance of sacred texts to personal reading of written texts. However, this study empahsises the continue... .... Learn More -
First Among Abbots: The Career of Abbo of Fleury [Hardback]
Elizabeth Dachowski (Author)
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ISBN: 9780813215105
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
Abbo of Fleury (c.945-1004) had an extraordinary, if disparate life, and made important contributions to many fields of medieval endeavour. He played a role at the forefront of politics for many years, becoming involved in the founding of the C... .... Learn More -
The Saint and the Sultan [Hardback]
Paul Moses (Author)
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ISBN: 9780385523707
Published by : Doubleday
This engaging book, aimed at the general reader, examines St Francis's mission to the Sultan Al-Khamil during the Fifth Crusade. Moses explores Francis's aims, and his wider thought about peace and missionary work, as well as the legacy of this... .... Learn More -
So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc [Hardback]
Louisa A. Burnham (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801441318
Published by : Cornell University Press
In So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sha... .... Learn More -
Medieval Saints' Lives [Hardback]
Emma Campbell (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781843841807
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central... .... Learn More -
Julian of Norwich [Hardback]
Elisabeth M. Dutton (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781843841814
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Compilation and miscellany manuscripts were widely owned in the late middle ages, by both the laity and the clergy. Here, their possible influence on Julian of Norwich's "Revelations" is explored. This book argues that formal features of compilati... .... Learn More -
The Northern Homily Cycle [Paperback]
Anne B. Thompson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781580441261
Published by : Medieval Institute Publications
Composed in rhyming English verse, the Northern homily cycle is the earliest and most complete work of its kind (Gospel paraphrases with homilies on the theme of the Gospel texts), its widespread and enduring popularity witnessed by three distinct... .... Learn More