Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781409441847
Published by : Routledge
Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
As Cardinal Hugolino and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages. His pontificate was a key stage in the development of papal relations with many of the realms of Christendom, as well a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789462985988
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Volume: 2
The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846827327
Published by : Four Courts Press
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This study explores the learned Gaelic families (poets, historians and physicians) and the context in which they lived. A wide-ranging survey, it looks at the landholdings and structures of individual learned families that were settled in Thomond ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198795643
Published by : Oxford University Press
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Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirte... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198837923
Published by : Oxford University Press
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Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198789512
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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In his 'Description of the Holy Land', written in Latin around 1283, the Dominican Burchard explores the land in a series of itineraries starting from Acre in the north, and then from Jerusalem in the south. His particular concern is to identify a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268105655
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
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The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a "cultural biography" of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later. A chapel was ere... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674988156
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Volume: 55
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Architrenius, a satirical allegory in dactylic hexameters completed in 1184 by the Norman poet Johannes de Hauvilla, follows the journey of its eponymous protagonist, the "arch-weeper," who stands in for an emerging class of educated professionals... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780268104627
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
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In Theater of the Word:Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that e... .... Learn More