Language & Literature
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Monastic Archaeology [Paperback]
Graham Keevill (Editor); Mick Aston (Editor); Teresa Hall (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9781785705670
Published by : Oxbow Books
The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volu... .... Learn More -
Cathars in Question [Hardback]
Antonio Sennis (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781903153680
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs, understood to be inspired by Balkan ... .... Learn More -
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion [Hardback]
John Munns (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9781783271269
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to the cross and the cru... .... Learn More -
Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures, 1200-1450 [Hardback]
Constant J. Mews (Editor); Anna Welch (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9781472437327
Published by : Routledge
Ever since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteen... .... 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 : University of Pennsylvania 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 -
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women Rules and Resistance [Hardback]
Catherine M. Mooney (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
Special Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9780812248173
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi's founding of the Order of San Damiano, or Poor Clares. Mooney offers instead a stark count... .... Learn More -
The Scottish Legendary: Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration [Hardback]
Eva Von Contzen (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780719095962
Published by : Manchester University Press
This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. the only extant collection of saints’ lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its im... .... Learn More -
The Marys of Medieval Drama: The Middle English Digby and N-town in Translation [Paperback]
Colleen E. Donnelly (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088903670
Published by : Sidestone Press
Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary continue to intrigue and fascinate us to this day. Their appearances in the Bible are brief, piquing our curiosity and compelling speculation about the unknown years of their lives. This volume contains modern tr... .... Learn More -
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800-1558 [Hardback]
Rita Copeland (Editor)
£205.00ISBN: 9780199587230
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning ... .... Learn More -
Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript [Hardback]
Chet Van Duzer (Author); Ilya Dines (Author)
£139.00ISBN: 9789004304536
Published by : BRILL
In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a ri... .... Learn More
