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  • Bede

    Part 1, Fascicles 1-4

    by George Brown, Fred Biggs ...
    Series Book 1 - Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture
    Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE. This volume presents four texts, or fascicles, dedicated to the Venerable Bede (d. 735), theologian and author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Articles provide a wealth of information on Bede through manuscript evidence, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bede

    Part 2

    by George Brown, Fred Biggs ...
    Series Book 2 - Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture
    This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Bede is best known as the author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which is one of the key sources for our historical and cultural knowledge ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Liturgy in Medieval England

    A History

    by Richard W. Pfaff ...
    This book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or parish - primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the wider political, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the period. The main focus is on ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

    by G.R. Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis

    Essays on Bede, Adomnán and Thomas Becket

    by Jennifer O'Reilly ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of Iona; and the early lives of Thomas Becket. In these three areas she explored the connections between ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

    Basic Readings

    Edited by Mary P. Richards ...
    Series series Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time
    The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an introductory collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues, and applications. Focusing on manuscripts copied before 1100 in England, the selections gathered here consider their history, production, analysis, and significance ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews

    Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Norman England

    by Kati Ihnat ...
    Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews explores a key moment in the rise of the cult of the Virgin Mary and the way the Jews became central to her story. Benedictine monks in England at the turn of the twelfth century developed many innovative ways to venerate Mary as the most powerful saintly intercessor. They sought her mercy on a weekly and daily basis with extensive liturgical practices, ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture

    by Katherine Katherine Smith ...
    An extremely interesting and important book... makes an important contribution to the history of medieval monastic spirituality in a formative period, whilst also fitting into wider debates on the origins, development and impactof ideas on crusading and holy war. Dr William Purkis, University of BirminghamMonastic culture has generally been seen as set apart from the medieval battlefield, as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • From Judgment to Passion

    Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200

    by Rachel Fulton Brown ...
    Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Rachel Fulton ranges over ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Sin of Sloth

    Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature

    by Siegfried Wenzel ...
    Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth," from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention to the different emphases and changes the concept underwent.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Saint and the Count

    A Case Study for Reading like a Historian

    by Leah Shopkow ...
    While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Sibyl and Her Scribes

    Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin Sibylla Tiburtina c. 1050–1500

    by Anke Holdenried ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the 16th centuries, survive which testify to the Tiburtina's immense popularity in the medieval West; as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD