Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by William John Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Christina of Markyate written by Medieval Academy of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life of Christina of Markyate", a twelfth-century English recluse and later abbess of Markyate near St Albans, is a remarkable example of late medieval hagiography. Originally written at the time of or soon after Christina's death in the twelfth century, the Life is unusual both in its relative lack of miracles, and in the unknown author's decision to write Christina's life factually rather than gathering together stock elements from previously written saint's lives, as was the custom. First published in 1959, this edition contains the original Latin text with a facing-page English translation. It is accompanied by a comprehensive Introduction that discusses the codicological problems of the text, and provides other contextual and background material. 'One of the great virtues of this Life is its vivid revelations of Christina's personal circumstances, which must have been based on her own reminiscences. Although doubts have been cast on her veracity ... they do not affect the main lines of the extraordinary story she told the author.' From the General Editors' Note
Download or read book Waltharius written by Ekkehard I (Dean of St. Gall) and published by Dallas Medieval Texts and Tran. This book was released on 2016 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Waltharius', a medieval Latin epic poem of over 1400 lines, richly retells the story of a vigorous Germanic saga in the language and style of classical and Christian Latin poetry. Walter, its hero, is a pagan warrior ready to mock his enemies and mercilessly decapitate them, but also a pious Christian who refrains from premarital sex and stops to pray and ask for God's mercy in the middle of a battle. The poem varies remarkably in tone, providing both fervent moral commentary and bitter black comedy. The growing scholarship on the poem outside of Germany, where it has always been popular, no doubt results from its weird allure and eclectic nature. It has something for everyone. This new edition uses a fresh review of manuscripts - especially the recently discovered fragments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - in order to provide a text and apparatus that will aid the reader in understanding the poem's tangled manuscript history. 0The notes are rather fuller than those of previous English-language editions, providing useful context to understand the complicated relationships among the Germanic, classical Latin, and Christian Latin traditions as well as tracking various themes and stylistic features that the poet employs.
Download or read book By Sex Divided written by Jonathan Petre and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years two fault lines have appeared in the Church of England. One is between liberals and conservatives, the other between supporters and opponents of the ordination of women. It has been thrust to the top of the Church's agenda by the success of the women's movement. Now that the Church's Synod has voted in favour, the Archbishop of Canterbury has become involved in a crucial damage-limitation exercise, seeking to avoid a schism.
Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Download or read book Cultural Politics in Fifteenth Century England The Case of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester written by Alessandra Petrina and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority. Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey's commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey's donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation's cultural autonomy.
Download or read book The prose writers with an index to both vols written by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Matthew Paris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavonic Literature written by William Richard Morfill and published by London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1883 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology written by Henry Arbois de Jubainville and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Pettigrew First Bishop elect of the North Carolina Episcopal Church written by Bennett H Wall and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ancient Empires of the East written by Archibald Henry Sayce and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages written by Henry Mayr-Harting and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book. Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.
Download or read book And Sweet Singing in the Choir written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Wagner's rhythmically driven treatment of the beloved carol "The Holly and the Ivy" offers a fantastic opener or closer for your holiday concert. Persistent eighth notes in the piano maintain excitement throughout, and a dynamic choral pyramid ending adds to the festive atmosphere.
