This sourcebook is designed to introduce students to the everyday lives of the Jews who lived in the German Empire, northern France and England from the 11th to the mid-14th centuries. The volume consists of translations of primary sources written by or about medieval Jews.
Celebrating the career of one of the most prodigious modern scholars of the early Middle Ages, showcases the... Læs mere
Focusing on the ninth-century beginnings of Byzantine writings against the Latin addition of the Filioque to the creed, illuminates several aspects of Byzantine thought-their self-definition, their theology, their uniquely constituted state.
The book (double columns, 357 pages, plus plates) serves as a standard reference source for students of the ecclesiastical arts and also will provide an essential dimension for drama scholars.
This volume makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, including the original Occitan text, a translation and an introduction to the work.
Essays in this volume offer non-Italian scholars a representative sample of current European research and a summary of recent debates regarding the historical evolution of those republics that posed the most formidable obstacles to the extension of Florentine hegemony.
The legend of Theophilus is a medieval miracle story which reveals the period's deep fear of hell and the Devil. This first English translation of Gautier... Læs mere
A text book on Wills and Testaments in Medieval England, casting a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. For use by students of medieval English history.
John of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a thirteenth-century allegoresis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: newly edited and translated, with explanatory and textual notes.
These texts are English versions of romances well known in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, but outside the modern canon of early... Læs mere
John Gower's Confessio Amantis (The Lover's Confession) is one of the most important English works of the C14th. Within its frame... Læs mere
The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (c.1070 - c.1140) participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the... Læs mere