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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A diligent historian and a superb writer’ THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation.
This is the second volume in what will be in a complete annotated English translation of the corresondence of St.... Læs mere
In The Passions of the Christ in High Medieval Thought Kevin Madigan examines the reasoning and actions behind high-medieval responses to reconciling the seemingly incongruent features of Jesus Christ's divinity and humanity.
A critical edition of the Old English homilies in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare MS CXVII, with parallel passages from related manuscripts. The text has a critical apparatus giving the readings of other manuscripts and analogues from other homilies, and there is a commentary.
There is much interest in the "mouvance" of a medieval text, the way different manuscripts... Læs mere
The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.
Credit transactions were a common and important feature of peasant society in the middle ages. This study of rural credit in medieval England... Læs mere
Women's engagement with the powerful medieval ideal of virginity is reflected in the saints' lives written by and for... Læs mere
A work on ancient Georgia, the mythical home of Medea and Prometheus, and historically at the centre of the successive struggles for power by the Persians, Greeks, Romans and later, the Byzantine Empire. The author has first-hand knowledge of most of the area discussed.
This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. It offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed - though selective - account of major writers and movements. It is written in an accessible and non-technical style.