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Book Synopsis Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae Genealogiae by : Arthur Wade Wade-Evans
Download or read book Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae Genealogiae written by Arthur Wade Wade-Evans and published by Studies in Medieval Wales. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new expanded edition of a classic and widely-used academic text, first published in 1944, provides the Latin texts of the lives of the Welsh saints found in Cotton Vespasian A. xiv. from the British Library dated to c.1200. As well as being the major source for Welsh hagiography, the book also contains Arthurian material that predates the publication of Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential Historia Regum Britanniae in 1138. The second edition includes additional material in the way of: a new introduction to draw attention to the scholarship published on these Welsh saints over the last 60 years * a translation and detailed commentary on the Life of St. Beuno (Buchedd Beuno) by A.W. Wade-Evans, not included in the original edition, and also his English translation of the Life of St. David * an important review of the original publication by Thomas Jones. The lives of eleven saints are included in their original language with a facing page English translation (Brynach, Beuno, Cadog, Carannog, David, Gwynllyw, Illtud, Cybi, Padarn, Tatheus, and Winifred). Additionally, the book offers six genealogical tracts that provide even more biographical information from medieval Welsh tradition. The book is completed by an index of proper names, and the original pagination has been retained to make referencing easier. (Series: Studies in Medieval Wales)
Book Synopsis Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae by : Arthur Wade Wade-Evans
Download or read book Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae written by Arthur Wade Wade-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Christianity in Wales by : David Ceri Jones
Download or read book A History of Christianity in Wales written by David Ceri Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balanced coverage of whole history of Christianity in Wales, paying as much attention to earlier periods as the better-known later ones. A contemporary view of the subject, incorporating the latest scholarly research in an accessible and readable form. Guides to further reading specifically aimed at navigating students and others through what they should read after this book.
Book Synopsis The De Excidio of Gildas by : Thomas D. O'Sullivan
Download or read book The De Excidio of Gildas written by Thomas D. O'Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey by : Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford
Download or read book The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey written by Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.
Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C.500-c.700 by : Paul Fouracre
Download or read book The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C.500-c.700 written by Paul Fouracre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Book Synopsis Walter Map and the Matter of Britain by : Joshua Byron Smith
Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
Book Synopsis King Arthur and the Gods of the Round Table by : David Dom
Download or read book King Arthur and the Gods of the Round Table written by David Dom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did King Arthur really exist? The oldest manuscripts refer to him as a "Lord of Battle" who emerged soon after the Roman Empire crumbled. But what would be the origin of all these stories that turned a war leader into a king, an emperor, a legend... even a god? What if Arthur was really a deity similar to Zeus and Odin, with his roots in the rich Celtic mythology of the British Isles? A study of Arthurian myths reveals Britain's most legendary king as an ancient Sun God, known by many different names in the myths of Wales and Ireland. Even his Knights of the Round Table, and his sister Morgan le Fay can all be identified as ancient Gods and Goddesses of earth, sea and sky. Their survival in Arthurian legend stands as a shining testament of a story far more ancient, but by no means lost to us...
Book Synopsis Arthur in the Celtic Languages by : Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Download or read book Arthur in the Celtic Languages written by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been constantly reworked and adapted from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It shows how the figure of Arthur evolved from the leader of a warband in early medieval north Britain to a king whose court becomes the starting-point for knightly adventures, and how characters and tales are reimagined, reshaped and reinterpreted according to local circumstances, traditions and preoccupations at different periods. From the celebrated early Welsh poetry and prose tales to less familiar modern Breton and Cornish fiction, from medieval Irish adaptations of the legend to the Gaelic ballads of Scotland, Arthur in the Celtic Languages provides an indispensable, up-to-date guide of a vast and complex body of Arthurian material, and to recent research and criticism.
Download or read book Magic in Britain written by Robin Melrose and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, both benevolent (white) and malign (black), has been practiced in the British Isles since at least the Iron Age (800 BCE–CE 43). “Curse tablets”—metal plates inscribed with curses intended to harm specific people—date from the Roman Empire. The Anglo-Saxons who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries used ritual curses in documents, and wrote spells and charms. When they became Christians in the seventh century, the new “magicians” were saints, who performed miracles. When William of Normandy became king in 1066, there was a resurgence of belief in magic. The Church was able to quell the fear of magicians, but the Reformation saw its revival, with numerous witchcraft trials in the late 16th and 17th centuries.
Book Synopsis Writing Welsh History by : Huw Pryce
Download or read book Writing Welsh History written by Huw Pryce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.
Book Synopsis Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages by : Wendy Davies
Download or read book Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages written by Wendy Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.
Book Synopsis Images of Women in Antiquity by : Averil Cameron
Download or read book Images of Women in Antiquity written by Averil Cameron and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diverse roles and attitudes to women in ancient societies: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses, and typically as deranged.
Book Synopsis Gerald of Wales by : A. Joseph McMullen
Download or read book Gerald of Wales written by A. Joseph McMullen and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald of Wales (c.1146–c.1223), widely recognized for his innovative ethnographic studies of Ireland and Wales, was in fact the author of some twenty-three works which touch upon many aspects of twelfth-century life. Despite their valuable insights, these works have been vastly understudied. This collection of essays reassesses Gerald’s importance as a medieval Latin writer and rhetorician by focusing on his lesser-known works and providing a fuller context for his more popular writings. This broader view of his corpus brings to light new evidence for his rhetorical strategies, political positioning and usage of source material, and attests to the breadth and depth of his collected works.
Book Synopsis Edward the Confessor by : Frank Barlow
Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Frank Barlow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. "Deploying all the resources of formidable scholarship, [Barlow] has recovered the real Edward." — Spectator
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 1, c.400–1100 by : Richard Gameson
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 1, c.400–1100 written by Richard Gameson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration; examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent; discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks; and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.
Book Synopsis Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries by : John A.F. Thomson
Download or read book Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries written by John A.F. Thomson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But the studies presented here frequently explore major change through the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship, date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our understanding of late medieval British history.
