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Book Synopsis A Companion to Medieval Poetry by : Corinne Saunders
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Poetry written by Corinne Saunders and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series oforiginal essays from leading literary scholars that explore Englishpoetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the15th century. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological andstylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English andPost-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextualessays, providing a valuable introduction to the society andculture of the time Combines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry,with specific consideration of texts and authors, includingBeowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer,Gower and Langland Features original essays by eminent scholars, including AndyOrchard, Carl Schmidt, Douglas Gray, and BarryWindeatt, who present a range of theoretical,historical, and cultural approaches to reading medieval poetry, aswell as offering close analysis of individual texts andtraditions
Book Synopsis Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents by : William George Dimock Fletcher
Download or read book Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents written by William George Dimock Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three issues of a short-lived academic journal, published in 1854, illuminate classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.
Book Synopsis The Elements in the Medieval World by :
Download or read book The Elements in the Medieval World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen essays and the final poem contained in this volume reflect the fundamental importance of water across the whole breadth of medieval endeavour and understanding, as both source of life, and object of scholarly fascination, whose manifestations were the source of rich symbolism and imaginings. Ranging geographically from Ireland to the Arab world and from Iceland to Byzantium and chronologically from the fourth century CE to the sixteenth, the essays explore perceptions and theories of water through a wide range of approaches. Contributors are Michael Bintley, Tom Birkett, Laura Borghetti, Rafał Borysławski, Marilina Cesario, Marusca Francini, Kelly Grovier, Deborah Hayden, Simon Karstens, Andreas Lammer, David Livingstone, Luca Loschiavo, Hugh Magennis, Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha, François Quiviger, Elisa Ramazzina, and Karl Whittington.
Book Synopsis The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs by : Andrew Reynolds
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs written by Andrew Reynolds and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the earliest period of post-Roman society - the fifth to seventh centuries - for which documents are lacking. For later centuries, archaeological evidence can provide us with an independent assessment of the realities of capital punishment and the status of outcasts. Andrew Reynolds argues that outcast burials show a clear pattern of development in this period. In the pre-Christian centuries, 'deviant' burial remains are found only in community cemeteries, but the growth of kingship and the consolidation of territories during the seventh century witnessed the emergence of capital punishment and places of execution in the English landscape. Locally determined rites, such as crossroads burial, now existed alongside more formal execution cemeteries. Gallows were located on major boundaries, often next to highways, always in highly visible places. The findings of this pioneering national study thus have important consequences on our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society. Overall, Reynolds concludes, organized judicial behaviour was a feature of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, rather than just the two centuries prior to the Norman Conquest.
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Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Linguistics, 1996: From classical to contemporary linguistics by : David Cram
Download or read book History of Linguistics, 1996: From classical to contemporary linguistics written by David Cram and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion of problems in translating ancient grammatical texts. The remainder of the volume is arranged in chronological sections, with contributions as follows. II. Classical and Medieval; III. Seventeenth Century; IV. Eighteenth Century; V. Nineteenth Century; VI. Twentieth Century.
Book Synopsis The Galilee Bell: from Sanctuary to Asylum and Back – the Role of the Church by : Geoffrey Care
Download or read book The Galilee Bell: from Sanctuary to Asylum and Back – the Role of the Church written by Geoffrey Care and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Sanctuary is sometimes used loosely as synonymous with refuge but Geoffrey Care’s book examines the true early meaning of sanctuary as applied by the church which gave respite, albeit for a limited time, from both authority and the mob. His diligent research takes us through a series of delightful cameo sketches of those who sought sanctuary and in so doing gives us an insight into mediaeval life and times... Keith Best, Barrister, former MP and Chief Executive of both the Immigration Advisory Service and Freedom from Torture and a member of the Foreign Secretary’s Panel on Torture Prevention. *** This is a remarkable book on the subject of sanctuary by Geoffrey Care. This issue is of increasing urgency and international importance. ...Geoffrey’s book will appeal to many as a book that covers a serious topic in an appealing form.... His publication is timely and compassionate. Bernar Moody, Beverley.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by : S. H. Rigby
Download or read book A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages written by S. H. Rigby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
Book Synopsis Athelred the Unready by : Ann Williams
Download or read book Athelred the Unready written by Ann Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Æthelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading Danes bravely, but died in November of the same year after being defeated at the battle of Assandun, leading to the House of Wessex being replaced by a Danish king, Cnut. Æthelred, in constrast to his predecessor and successor, reigned (except for a few months in 1013-14), largely unchallenged for thirty-eight years, despite presiding over a period which saw many Danish invasions and much internal strife. If not a great king, he was certainly a survivor whose posthumous reputation and nickname (meaning 'Noble Council the No Council') do him little justice. In Æthelred the Unready Ann Williams, a leading scholar on his reign, discounts the later rumours and misinterpretations that have dogged his reputation to construct a record of his reign from contemporary sources.
Author :Howard M. Nixon Publisher :Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England by : Howard M. Nixon
Download or read book The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England written by Howard M. Nixon and published by Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.
Book Synopsis Companion to Historiography by : Michael Bentley
Download or read book Companion to Historiography written by Michael Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.
Book Synopsis Modernity's Classics by : Sarah C. Humphreys
Download or read book Modernity's Classics written by Sarah C. Humphreys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage. Its scope is global (China, India, Egypt, Iran, Judaism, the Greco-Roman world) and inter-disciplinary (textual philology, history of art and architecture, philosophy, gardening). Its emphasis is on the complexity of the modernization process and of reactions to it: ideas and technologies travelled from India to Iran and from Japan to China, while reactions show tensions between museumization and the recreation of 'presence'. It challenges readers to rethink the assumptions of the disciplines in which they were trained
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages by : Ruth Evans
Download or read book A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages written by Ruth Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in confessors' manuals, in virginity treatises, and in literary texts. This volume looks afresh at the cultural meanings that sex had throughout the period, presenting new evidence and offering new interpretations of known material. Acknowledging that many of the categories that we use today to talk about sexuality are inadequate for understanding sex in premodern times, the volume draws on important recent work in the historiography of medieval sexuality to address the conceptual and methodological challenges the period presents. A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.
Book Synopsis The Bull Ring Uncovered by : Catharine Patrick
Download or read book The Bull Ring Uncovered written by Catharine Patrick and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2008-12-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excavations in the centre of Birmingham uncovered evidence of habitation from prehistoric and Roman times, but the 12th to 19th centuries presented by far the most evidence, from artefacts, environmental samples and structural remains. The medieval industrial past was of particular interest, with tanning and the manufacture of hemp and linen all playing a large role in the city's prosperity. Metal working reached its peak in the seventeenth century, with brass founding becoming important from the eighteenth century onwards. Most of the artefactual evidence attests to Birmingham's industrial past, indeed the evidence for domestic life is comparatively scant, with an anomalous burial of two people at Park Street presenting something of a mystery. This volume presents insights into the early industrial past of this important city and is an invaluable record covering eight hundred years of occupation.
