Language & Literature
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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)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £25.00
ISBN: 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 -
I.B. Tauris History of Monasticism: The Western Tradition [Hardback]
G. R. Evans (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9781848853768
Published by : I.B. Tauris
From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects of western Christianity. And in assessing the glories of western civilization, perhaps the best place to start is within mediev... .... Learn More -
Popes and Jews 1095-1291 [Hardback]
Rebecca Rist (Author)
Regular Price: £83.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9780198717980
Published by : Oxford University Press
In Popes and Jews, 1095-1291, Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jewish communities of western Europe. Rist analyses papal pronouncements in the context of the substantial and on-going soci... .... Learn More -
Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus [Hardback]
Juanita Feros Ruys (Author)
Regular Price: £64.99
Special Price: £20.00
ISBN: 9780312240028
Published by : Palgrave
The great medieval thinker Peter Abelard is renowned for his uncompromising and radical approach to ethics and theology, a towering public figure in twelfth-century schools and monasticism. The Repentant Abelard argues, however, that later in his ... .... Learn More -
Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity [Hardback]
Kurt Flasch (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780300204865
Published by : Yale University Press
Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and post... .... Learn More -
Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts [Hardback]
Emily Steiner (Editor); Lynn Ransom (Editor)
Regular Price: £37.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780812247596
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The period from the late twelfth through fifteenth centuries was an age of information in western Europe, and like today's electronic databases, medieval manuscripts helped readers access, process, and analyze information. Taxonomies of Knowledge:... .... Learn More -
Glastonbury Abbey: archaeological investigations 1904–79 [Hardback]
Roberta Gilchrist (Author); Cheryl Green (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780854313006
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Glastonbury Abbey was renowned in the Middle Ages as the reputed burial place of the legendary King Arthur and the site of the earliest Christian church in Britain, believed to have been founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the first century AD. New ... .... Learn More
