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Book Hugh Du Puiset  Bishop of Durham  by G  V  Scammell

Download or read book Hugh Du Puiset Bishop of Durham by G V Scammell written by G. V. Scammell and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Hugh Du Puiset  Bishop of Durham

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  • Author : Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014632234
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Hugh Du Puiset Bishop of Durham written by Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 376 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.

Book Hugh Du Puiset  Bishop of Durham

Download or read book Hugh Du Puiset Bishop of Durham written by Geoffrey Vaughan Scammel and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry of Blois

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  • Author : William Kynan-Wilson
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 178327574X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Henry of Blois written by William Kynan-Wilson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern study devoted to one of the twelfth-century's most enigmatic, influential and fascinating figures.

Book St Cuthbert and the Normans

Download or read book St Cuthbert and the Normans written by William M. Aird and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study charts the relations between the monastic community of St Cuthbert in Durham and the invading Normans - particularly the relationship between the new Norman bishops and the monastic cathedral chapter.

Book The King   s Bishops

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  • Author : E. Crosby
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-09-04
  • ISBN : 1137352124
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The King s Bishops written by E. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

Book Anglo Norman Studies XXI

Download or read book Anglo Norman Studies XXI written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe written by C. N. L. Brooke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers many facets of the medieval church, dealing with institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. The text explores the origins of the diocese and the parish, the history of the See of Hereford and of York Minster. It discusses the arrival of the archdeacon, the Normans as cathedral builders and the kings of England and Scotland as monastic patrons. The studies of monastic life deal with the European question of monastic vocation and with St Bernard's part in the sensational expansion of the early 12th century. An epilogue takes us to the 14th century, contrasting Chaucer's parson with an actual Norfolk rector.

Book Anglo Norman Durham

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  • Author : David W. Rollason
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780851156545
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Anglo Norman Durham written by David W. Rollason and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive... for many readers of these papers their cumulative effect will be very great indeed... Admirable collaborative volume. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Specialists explore the influence of twelfth-centuryDurham, in ecclesiastical affairs, Border politics, architecture, art, and religious and literary culture. Impressive... the cumulative effect [of these papers] is very great indeed. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY This study of Anglo-Norman Durham's history, architecture, art, and religious and literary culture covers much ground, including the Cathedral Priory and its relationship to monastic reform; the careers of the prince bishops; studies of the spectacular castle; the relationship between Durham and the Scottish kings; the architecture of the cathedral; and Durham manuscripts and texts, featuring historical compilations and the remarkable Old English poem De situ Dunelmi. Contributors: DONALD MATTHEW, JULIA BARROW, JANET BURTON, MERYL FOSTER, VICTORIA TUDOR, MICHAEL GULLICK, ALAN PIPER, DAVID BATES, MARK PHILPOTT, ERIC CAMBRIDGE, MALCOLM THURLBY, J. PHILIP McALEER, S.A. HARRISON, JOHN CROOK, THOMAS E. RUSSO, E.C. FERNIE, WILLIAM AIRD, J.O. PRESTWICH, G.W.S. BARROW, VALERIE WALL, PAUL DALTON, ALAN YOUNG, HENRY SUMMERSON, MARTIN ALLEN, P.D.A. HARVEY, MARTIN LEYLAND, M.W. THOMPSON, BERNARD MEEHAN, CHRISTOPHER NORTON, ANNE LAWRENCE, DOMINIC MARNER, DAVID HOWLETT

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 The Living Church

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hugh de Puiset  Bishop of Durham  1153 1195

Download or read book Hugh de Puiset Bishop of Durham 1153 1195 written by Thomas Martin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Cumin  Border politics and the Bishopric of Durham  1141 1144

Download or read book William Cumin Border politics and the Bishopric of Durham 1141 1144 written by Alan Young and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Durham Priory 1400 1450

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  • Author : R. B. Dobson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-11-24
  • ISBN : 9780521023054
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Durham Priory 1400 1450 written by R. B. Dobson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of this work, Dr Dobson is able to throw new light on the universal aspirations and pre occupations of medieval monasticism. He reconstructs life in Durham in the century before its final dissolution and concludes that it was an example of 'comparatively successful conservatism' during a period in English history characterized by institutional resistance to social and intellectual change.

Book A History of the Crusades

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  • Author : Kenneth M. Setton
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN : 9780299048440
  • Pages : 908 pages

Download or read book A History of the Crusades written by Kenneth M. Setton and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world.

Book A History of the Crusades  Volume 2

Download or read book A History of the Crusades Volume 2 written by Robert Lee Wolff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.