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Book Hugh Du Puiset

    Book Details:
  • 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 The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible written by H. A. G. Houghton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the Latin Bible, with a summary of the contents of each chapter in this Handbook and the rationale for their arrangement. It then discusses the terminology for referring to the Latin Bible, along with a mini-glossary of specialist terms in manuscript and textual studies which appear in the chapters. The principal editions of the Latin Bible are introduced, along with other resources for its study such as book series and databases. Finally, the conventions for the Handbook are explained, such as spelling practices for Latin and proper nouns"--

Book The Cambridge History of the Bible  Volume 2  The West from the Fathers to the Reformation

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Bible Volume 2 The West from the Fathers to the Reformation written by G. W. H. Lampe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-10-31 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Bible in the West, from Jerome and the Fathers to the time of Erasmus.

Book Biblical Imagery in Medieval England  700 1550

Download or read book Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700 1550 written by Claus Michael Kauffmann and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples of manuscripts, medieval art, sculpture, wall-painting, metal work and stained glass, the author explores the use of Biblical imagery in art during the medieval period in England.

Book The Cambridge History of the Bible  The West from the Fathers to the Reformation  edited by G  W  H  Lampe

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Bible The West from the Fathers to the Reformation edited by G W H Lampe written by Peter R. Ackroyd and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 covers the effects of the Bible on the history of the West between the Reformation and the publication of the New English Bible.

Book The Pictorial Arts of the West  800 1200

Download or read book The Pictorial Arts of the West 800 1200 written by Charles Reginald Dodwell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.

Book Medieval Monasticism

    Book Details:
  • Author : C.H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-09-28
  • ISBN : 1000955885
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Medieval Monasticism written by C.H. Lawrence and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the social landscape of the West, and their leaders figured as much in the political as on the spiritual map of the medieval world. In this book many of them, together with their supporters and critics, are presented to us and speak their minds to us. We are shown, for instance, the controversy between the Benedictines and the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the problems that confronted women in religious life. A detailed glossary offers readers a helpful vocabulary of the subject. This fifth edition has been revised by Janet Burton to include an updated bibliography and an introduction which discusses recent trends in monastic studies, including reinterpretations of issues of reform and renewal, new scholarship on religious women, and interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. This book is essential reading for both students and scholars of the medieval world.

Book The Cambridge History of the Bible  The West from the fathers to the Reformation

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Bible The West from the fathers to the Reformation written by Christopher Francis Evans and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 covers the effects of the Bible on the history of the West between the Reformation and the publication of the New English Bible.

Book Ocelli Nominum

Download or read book Ocelli Nominum written by Wilma Fitzgerald and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North of the Tees

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  • Author : H.S. Offler
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-10-28
  • ISBN : 1040249574
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book North of the Tees written by H.S. Offler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume, which include three left unpublished at the time of Professor Offler's death in 1991, cover the period from the 9th to the 14th centuries; They well exemplify Offler's command of historical narrative and his technical skills as a historian. Their main concern is with the northernmost counties of England, in particular with the diocese of Durham and the activities of its bishops, but some cross the border into Scottish history. Many provide a careful evaluation of crucial documentary evidence for the period; others give vivid reconstructions of particular personalities or events.

Book Durham  1153 1195

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. G. Snape
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780197262344
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Durham 1153 1195 written by M. G. Snape and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume of Acta presents 75 Latin texts, with notes, that record the charters of Hugh of le Puiset, Bishop of Durham from 1153-1195. The introduction also serves Volume 25, which will cover the years 1196-1237, and includes discussions of the households of all four bishops who held office between 1153 and 1237 and the types of Acta featured.

Book English Episcopal Acta

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. G. Snape
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780197262351
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book English Episcopal Acta written by M. G. Snape and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second of two to cover the years 1196-1237, publishes the acta of Philip of Poitou, Richard Marsh and Richard Poore. Appendices present documents other than acta, including personal letters and itineraries. Pagination continues from the previous volume.

Book Visions of the Other World in Middle English

Download or read book Visions of the Other World in Middle English written by Robert Easting and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography covers visions of Heaven and Hell - or, more usually, Purgatory and Earthly Paradise - in 19 medieval texts relating seven visions: the vision of St Paul, or the Eleven Pains of Hell; St Patrick's purgatory; the vision of Tundale; a revelation of purgatory; the revelation of the Monk of Eynsham; the vision of Fursey; and the vision of Edmund Leversedge.

Book Uncertain Refuge

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  • Author : Elizabeth Allen
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-10-22
  • ISBN : 0812298071
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Uncertain Refuge written by Elizabeth Allen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary was upheld under both canon and common law, and up to five hundred people sought sanctuary every year. What they found, however, was not so much a static refuge as a temporary respite from further action—confession and exile—or from further violence—jurisdictional conflict, harrying or starvation, a breaching of the sanctuary. While sanctuary has usually been analyzed as part of legal history, in Uncertain Refuge Elizabeth Allen explores the symbolic consequences of sanctuary seeking in English literary works—miracle collections, chronicles, romances, and drama. She ponders the miracle of a stag's escape from the hunt into a churchyard as well as the account of a fallen political favorite who gains a sort of charisma as he takes sanctuary three times in succession; the figure of Sir Gawain, seeking refuge in a stark land far from the court and Robin Hood, hiding in his local forest refuge among his Merry Men. Her consideration of medieval sanctuary extends to its resonances in a seventeenth-century play about the early Tudor usurper Perkin Warbeck and even into modern America, with the case of a breach of sanctuary in southwest Georgia in 1963, when sheriffs took over a voter registration meeting in a local church. Uncertain Refuge illuminates a fantasy of protection and its impermanence that animated late medieval literary culture, and one that remains poignantly alive, if no longer written into law, in today's troubled political world.

Book The Medieval Castle in England and Wales

Download or read book The Medieval Castle in England and Wales written by Norman J. G. Pounds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and pioneering book examines the role of the castle in the Norman conquest of England and in the subsequent administration of the country. The castle is seen primarily as an instrument of peaceful administration which rarely had a garrison and was more often where the sheriff kept his files and employed his secretariat. In most cases the military significance of the castle was minimal, and only a very few ever saw military action. For the first time, the medieval castle in England is seen in a new light which will attract the general reader of history and archaeology as much as the specialist in economic and social history.