Download or read book Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds written by Jocelin (de Brakelond) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of Jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful.
Download or read book The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1212 1301 written by Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorials of St Edmund s Abbey written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the English People 1000 1154 written by Henry (of Huntingdon) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.
Download or read book The Chronicle of Andres written by Abbot William of Andres and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated with Notes and Commentary by Leah Shopkow In 1220 Abbot William of Andres, a monastery halfway between Calais and Saint-Omer on the busy road from London to Paris, sat down to write an ambitious cartulary-chronicle for his monastery. Although his work was unfinished at his death, William’s account is an unpolished gem of medieval historical writing. The Chronicle of Andres details the history of his monastery from its foundation in the late eleventh century through the early part of 1234. Early in the thirteenth century, the monks decided to sue for their freedom and appointed William as their protector. His travels took him on a 4000 km, four-year journey, during which he was befriended by Innocent III, among others, and where he learned to negotiate the labyrinthine system of the ecclesiastical courts. Upon winning his case, he was elected abbot on his return to Andres and enjoyed a flourishing career thereafter. A decade after his victory, William decided to put the history of the monastery on a firm footing. This text not only offers insight into the practice of medieval canon law (from the perspective of a well-informed man with legal training), but also ecclesiastical policies, the dynamics of life within a monastery, ethnicity and linguistic diversity, and rural life. It is comparable in its frankness to Jocelin of Brakelord’s Chronicle of Bury. Because William drew on the historiographic tradition of the Southern Low Countries, his text also offers some insights into this subject, thus composing a broad picture of the medieval European monastic world.
Download or read book The Real Making of the President written by W. J. Rorabaugh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.
Download or read book The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1201 1301 written by Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond written by Jocelin (de Brakelond) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles everyday events in the Abbey of Bury-St. Edmunds and special events such as the visit of King Henry II and the election of Samson as abbot.
Download or read book Historical Writing of Early Rus c 1000 c 1400 in a Comparative Perspective written by Timofey V. Guimon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the emergence, forms, composition, content, and the functions of historical writing in Rus and sets the material in a comparative context.
Download or read book The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond written by Jocelin (de Brakelond) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds 1912 1301 written by Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson written by Jocelin de Brakelond and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sorcerer s Tale written by Alec Ryrie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man in sixteenth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown documents to reconstruct this extraordinary man's career, Alec Ryrie takes us through the cut-throat business of early modern medicine, down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and organized crime; from the world of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into the chaotic, exhilarating religious upheavals of the Reformation. On the way, we learn how Tudor England's dignified public face and its rapacious underworld were intimately connected to each other. Gregory Wisdom's career is an object lesson in how to conjure up wealth and respectability from nothing in a turbulent age. Praised as "an excellent snapshot of a time intrigued by the spiritual realm" (Los Angeles Times), this is a unique glimpse into a world intoxicated by new ideas.
Download or read book Knighton s Chronicle 1337 1396 written by Henry Knighton and published by Oxford Medieval Texts. This book was released on 1995 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Knighton, a canon of St Mary's Abbey, Leicester, wrote his Chronicle between 1378 and 1396. The Chronicle contains exceptionally vivid accounts of the campaigns in France, in which Duke Henry was one of Edward III's leading generals, of the onset and effects of the Black Death, and of the crises of Richard II's reign.
Download or read book Memory s Library written by Jennifer Summit and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Download or read book Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes written by Johannes de Oxenedes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1859, this thirteenth-century text records events from the 'foundation of England' up to the author's own time.
Download or read book A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds 1257 1301 written by Antonia Gransden and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Edmund's Abbey was one of the most highly privileged and wealthiest religious houses in medieval England, one closely involved with the central government; its history is an integral part of English history. This book, the second of two volumes, offers a magisterial and comprehensive account of the Abbey during the latter part of the thirteenth century, based primarily on evidence in the abbey's records (over 40 registers survive). It begins with an account of the two abbots of this period, Simon of Luton and John of Northwold, who showed outstanding ability in steering the abbey through difficult times, including conflict with the Friars Minor in the town, straitened financialcircumstances (partly caused by oppressive taxation from king and pope), and domestic issues. This is followed by consideration of such matters as the abbey's mint, its economy, religious, intellectual and cultural life, and the abbey's architecture -- especially the charnel chapel constructed by John, which survives to this day. The monks' dietary regime (with examples of actual recipes from the time) is examined in a detailed appendix. Dr Antonia Gransden is former Reader at the University of Nottingham.
