Download or read book Anglo Norman Lapidaries written by Paul Studer and published by Slatkine. This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Norman Lapidaries written by Paul Studer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo norman lapidaries written by Paul Studer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Norman Lapidaries Texts of Marbodus Lapidary and of Others Based Upon It with Introduction Notes and Glossary By Paul Studer and Joan Evans written by Paul Studer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Norman Lapidaries Texts of Marbodus Lapidary and of Others Based Upon It with Introduction Notes and Glossary By Paul Studer and Joan Evans written by Bishop of Rennes MARBODUS and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Mediaeval Lapidaries written by Joan Evans and published by London, Oxford U. P. This book was released on 1933 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Norman Lapidaries by Paul Studer M A D Lit Taylorian Professor of Romance Languages in the University of Oxford and Joan Evans B Litt Sometime Librarian of St Hugh s College Oxford written by Paul Studer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Norman lapidaries written by Marbode and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lapidary of Sacred Stones written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of sacred and magical gem lore that draws on the rarest source texts of Antiquity and the Middle Ages • Reveals the healing and magical virtues of familiar gemstones, such as amethyst, emerald, and diamond, as well as the lore surrounding exotic stones such as astrios, a stone celebrated by ancient magicians • Examines bezoars (stones formed in animals’ bodies) and “magnets” that attract materials other than metal • Based on ancient Arabic, Greek, Jewish, and European sources, ranging from the observations of Pliny the Elder to extremely rare texts such as the Picatrix and Damigeron’s Virtue of Stones Our ancestors believed stones were home to sacred beings of power, entities that if properly understood and cultivated could provide people protection from ill fortune, envy, and witchcraft; grant invisibility and other magical powers; improve memory; and heal the sick from a wide variety of diseases. These benefits could be obtained by wearing the stone on a ring, bracelet, or pendant; through massage treatments with the stone; or by reducing the gem into a powder and drinking it mixed with water or wine. Drawing from a wealth of ancient Arabic, Greek, Jewish, and European sources--from the observations of Pliny the Elder to extremely rare texts such as the Picatrix and Damigeron’s Virtue of Stones--Claude Lecouteux provides a synthesis of all known lore for more than 800 stones. He includes such common examples as the emerald, which when engraved with the figure of a harpy holding a lamprey in its claws will banish panic and nightmares, and beryl, which when appropriately carved can summon water spirits or win its owner high renown, as well as more exotic stones such as astrios, a stone celebrated by ancient magicians and whose center glows like a star. Lecouteux also examines bezoars--stones formed in animals’ bodies--as well as “magnets” that attract materials other than iron, such as gold, flesh, cotton, or scorpions. This comprehensive dictionary of sacred and magical gem lore, drawn from the rarest sources of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, represents a one-of-a-kind resource for gem enthusiasts and magical practitioners alike.
Download or read book Reversing Babel written by Bruce R. O'Brien and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conquered, from Old English into Latin? Solving this puzzle meant asking questions about what medieval writers thought about language and translation, what created the need and desire to translate, and how translators went about the work. These are the questions Reversing Babel attempts to answer by providing evidence that comes from the world in which not just Norman translators of law but any translators of any texts, regardless of languages, did their translating Reversing Babel reaches back from 1066 to the translation work done in an earlier conquest-a handful of important works translated in the ninth century in response to the alleged devastating effect of the Viking invasions-and carries the analysis up to the wave of Anglo-French translations created in the late twelfth century when England was a part of a large empire, ruled by a king from Anjou who held power not only in western France from Normandy in the north to the Pyrenees in the south, but also in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. In this longer and wider view, the impact of political events on acts of translation is more easily weighed against the impact of other factors such as geography, travel, trade, community, trends in learning, ideas about language, and habits of translation. These factors colored the contact situations created in England between speakers and readers of different languages during perhaps the most politically unstable period in English history. The variety of medieval translation among the English, and among those translators working in the greater empires of Cnut, the Normans, and the Angevins, is remarkable. Reversing Babel does not try to describe all of it; rather, it charts a course through the evidence and tries to answer the fundamental questions medieval historians should ask when their sources are medieval translations.
Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages written by Ardis Butterfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light.
Download or read book The Literary History of England written by Kemp Malone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1969 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students.The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and placing each author clearly in the setting of his time.Reviewing the first edition, The Times Literary Supplement commented: 'in inclusiveness and in judgment it has few rivals of its kind'.This first volume covers The Middle Ages (to 1500) in two sections: The Old English Period (to 1100) by Kemp Malone (John Hopkins University), and The Middle English Per.
Download or read book The New Historians of the Twelfth century Renaissance written by Peter Damian-Grint and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the striking new style of writing history in the twelfth century, by men such as Gaimar, Wace and Ambroise.
Download or read book Isis written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
Download or read book Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha Nakdan Sefer Ko a ha Avanim On the Virtue of the Stones Hebrew Text and English Translation written by Julia Zwink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the edition of a Hebrew lapidary, written around 1300 in Normandy, with a source study and a linguistic analysis of the Anglo-Norman terms featuring within the Hebrew text, this volume illustrates the prolific scientific interchange between Orient and Occident.
Download or read book The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English written by Roger Ellis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH General Editors: Peter France and Stuart Gillespie This groundbreaking five-volume history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It thus offers new and often challenging perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact, it explores the processes by which they came into being and were disseminated, and provides extensive bibliographical and biographical reference material. Volume 1 of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English originates with what medievalists have long known, that virtually everything written in the Middle Ages in English can be regarded, one way or another, as a translation, and that medieval understandings of what constitutes literature were significantly more generous than many modern ones. It uses modern as well as medieval understandings of translation to inform its discussions (the two understandings have a great deal in common), and it aims to situate medieval translation in English as fully as possible in its various cultural contexts: this includes, in particular, the complicated inter-relations of translation throughout the period into Latin, and (for the Middle English period) of translation in French. Since it also understands the Middle Ages of its title as including the first half of the sixteenth century, it studies what has survived of nearly a thousand years of translation activity in England.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals Key Figures in Medieval Europe 2006 written by Richard K. Emmerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, and the arts. It includes individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.
