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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism

    Edited by Samuel Fanous, Vincent Gillespie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • A Companion to Julian of Norwich

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Ena Jenkins, John Sexton, Book Reviews Editor, Kim M Phillips, Laura Saetveit Miles, Marleen Cre, Sarah Salih, Vincent Gillespie, Annie Sutherland, Barry A Windeatt0, Cate Gunn1, Denise N Baker2, Diane Watt3, E A Jones4, Elisabeth Dutton5, Elizabeth Robertson6 ...
    Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Critical Incident Management

    A Complete Response Guide, Second Edition

    by Vincent Faggiano, John McNall, Thomas T. Gillespie ...
    Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines, but in recent years, the response to these events has received heightened media scrutiny. Critical Incident Management: A Complete Resource Guide, Second Edition provides evidence-based, tested, and proven methodologies applicable to a host of scenarios t ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich

    by Veronica Mary Rolf ...
    Series series Explorer's Guide Series
    IVP Readers' Choice AwardPublishers Weekly Starred Review"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love is truly an astounding work: an inspired example of Christian mysticism, a unique contribution to Christian theology, the first book in English known to have been written by a woman.But it can also be a daunting ... Read more

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  • Medieval Texts in Context

    Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey ...
    This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Middle English Literature

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Julian of Norwich

    Visionary or Mystic?

    by Kevin Magill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love.Going against the current trend to place Julian in the category of mystic - a classification which defines her ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Looking Inward

    Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England

    by Jennifer Bryan ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    "You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Medieval Women's Writing

    by Diane Watt ...
    Series series Women and Writing
    Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500.The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women ... Read more

    $20.00 USD