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Book Epistolae cantuarienses

Download or read book Epistolae cantuarienses written by Canterbury Cathedral and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passion of St  Lawrence  Epigrams and Marginal Poems

Download or read book The Passion of St Lawrence Epigrams and Marginal Poems written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel of Canterbury (often referred to as Nigel Wireker or Nigel de Longchamps) was a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, during the troubled decades after the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Nigel is widely known for his Speculum Stultorum, an amusing satiric poem nearly four thousand lines in length, and for a caustic treatise that has been given the title Tractatus contra Curiales et Officiales Clericos. Although his seventeen Miracula Sancte Dei genitricis uirginis Marie, uersifice have been edited recently, not all his other works have fared well. The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems brings into print for the first time Nigel's remaining poems. From British Library Cotton Vespasian D xix are edited his account in rhymed hexameters of the passion of Saint Lawrence and thirteen epigrams; from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 15. 5 (342) are published newly discovered marginal poems that shed light upon his techniques of poetic composition. The volume opens with a general introduction on Nigel's writings, his life at Canterbury, and notable features of his verse. Each of the three texts or sets of texts is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by a detailed commentary, which glosses difficult words and constructions and which points the reader to literary sources and analogues. The volume concludes with indexes of names and of notable words. This new edition deepens our perspective upon Nigel of Canterbury and upon intellectual life in Canterbury after the death of Becket.

Book English Episcopal Acta 31  Ely 1109 1197

Download or read book English Episcopal Acta 31 Ely 1109 1197 written by Nicholas Karn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 170 acta published in this volume provide one of the best records of the structuring of a new diocese and the establishment of a cathedral chapter. The diocese of Ely (comprising historic Cambridgeshire) was founded in 1109, and its first four bishops oversaw the elaboration of a system of local ecclesiastical government, and also the formulation of a settlement between themselves and the Benedictine monks of Ely, whose church became the cathedral. Two of the bishops also held high secular office - William de Longchamp was effective regent of England while King Richard I was on Crusade - and the acta issued in connection with these duties shed light on the delegation of royal power.

Book Epistolae Cantuarienses  the Letters of the Prior and Couvent of Christ Church  Canterbury

Download or read book Epistolae Cantuarienses the Letters of the Prior and Couvent of Christ Church Canterbury written by William Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters from the East

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Barber
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1472413938
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Letters from the East written by Malcolm Barber and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening, and show us the feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. Some of the letters translated here are famous, others hardly known, but all offer unique insight into the minds of those who took part in the crusading movement.

Book Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs

Download or read book Calendar of Letters and State Papers Relating to English Affairs written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gilbert Foliot and His Letters

Download or read book Gilbert Foliot and His Letters written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Thomas Becket  Archbishop of Canterbury  1162 1170

Download or read book The Correspondence of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 1162 1170 written by Saint Thomas (à Becket) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new edition of the letters written and received between 1162 and 1170 by Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and victim of the 'murder in the cathedral'. It takes the reader to the very heart of the great dispute that rocked the English kingdom in the twelfth century.

Book Mapping the Medieval City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine A M Clarke
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2011-05-15
  • ISBN : 1783164611
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Mapping the Medieval City written by Catherine A M Clarke and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study – with attention to its location on the border between England and Wales, its rich multi-lingual culture and surviving material fabric – the essays seek to recover the experience and understanding of the urban space by individuals and groups within the medieval city, and to offer new readings from the vantage-point of twenty-first century disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The volume includes new interpretations of well-known sources and features such as the Chester Whistun Plays and the city’s Rows and walls, but also includes discussions of less-studied material such as Lucian’s In Praise of Chester – one of the earliest examples of urban encomium from England and an important text for understanding the medieval city – and the wealth of medieval Welsh poetry relating to Chester. Certain key themes emerge across the essays within this volume, including relations between the Welsh and English, formulations of centre and periphery, nation and region, different kinds of ‘mapping’ and the visual and textual representation of place, borders and boundaries, uses of the past in the production of identity, and the connections between discourses of gender and space. The volume seeks to generate conversation and debate amongst scholars of different disciplines, working across different locations and periods, and to open up directions for future work on space, place and identity in the medieval city.

Book History and the Written Word

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  • Author : Henry Bainton
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-01-24
  • ISBN : 0812251903
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book History and the Written Word written by Henry Bainton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical record Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done—that is, citing his source as evidence. Such documentary insertions are not ubiquitous in medieval historiography, however, and are in fact particularly characteristic of the history-writing produced by the Angevins in England and Northern France in the later twelfth century. In History and the Written Word, Henry Bainton puts these documentary gestures center stage in an attempt to understand what the chroniclers were doing historiographically, socially, and culturally when they transcribed a document into a work of history. Where earlier scholars who have looked at the phenomenon have explained this increased use of documents by considering the growing bureaucratic state and an increasing historiographical concern for documentary evidence, Bainton seeks to resituate these histories, together with their authors and users, within literate but sub-state networks of political power. Proposing a new category he designates "literate lordship" to describe the form of power with which documentary history-writing was especially concerned, he shows how important the vernacular was in recording the social lives of these literate lords and how they found it a particularly appropriate medium through which to record their roles in history. Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.

Book Hugh Du Puiset

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  • Author : G. V. Scammell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-17
  • ISBN : 0521179858
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Hugh Du Puiset written by G. V. Scammell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1956 book, which developed from the Prince Consort Prize Essay of 1952, tells the life story of Hugh du Puiset. Charming, distinguished, arrogant, unscrupulous but above all ambitious, du Puiset died a disappointed man. It was to his ambition that he owed both his success and his downfall.

Book England Under the Normans and Angevins  1066 1272

Download or read book England Under the Normans and Angevins 1066 1272 written by Henry William Carless Davis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book england under the normans and angevins

Download or read book england under the normans and angevins written by hwc davis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England Under the Normans and Angevins

Download or read book England Under the Normans and Angevins written by Henry William Carless Davis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Epidemics in Britain

Download or read book History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Epidemics in Britain in two volumes is the most significant work of Charles Creighton, British physician and medical author. The work is divided in two parts. First volume covers the history of epidemics from 664 A.D., the year of the first pestilence in Britain which was chosen as a starting-point, to the extinction of plague in 1665-66, which marks the end of a long era of epidemic sickness, including leprosy, poxes, various plagues, fevers and influenzas. The disappearance of plague marks the beginning of new era and of the second volume, which covers the period from 1666 to the end of 19th century. Dealing also with social and economic history, the author presents the broad image of the state of civilization which saw the emergence of typhus, cholera and many other kinds of fevers, influenzas and epidemics. The book is recognized as an important contribution to the study of medical history.