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Book The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Download or read book The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Matthew Paris and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vaughn's well received 1984 translation is here augmented with color reproductions of over 100 of the drawings in the manuscript. Paris's Latin chronicle, covering 1247-50, is valuable for its detail and its scope, noting and commenting on events all over Europe and the Near East as well as in London and Britain. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or."--Amazon.com viewed Sept. 30, 2020.

Book The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Download or read book The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Richard Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique record of life & events in the 13th century with over 100 full-color reproductions of the original manuscript decorations. The autograph manuscript of the chronicle of the medieval English monk Matthew Paris is housed at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, U.K. Matthew Paris was probably born about 1200. He became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St. Albans in 1217 & died there in 1259. Although he wrote in Latin & at times also in French, English seems to have been his native language. Europe in the 13th century was an expanding, outward-looking Europe, still living in the world of the crusades, which figure largely in these pages.

Book The Maps of Matthew Paris

Download or read book The Maps of Matthew Paris written by Daniel K. Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the intricate cartography of Matthew Paris, and the meanings of the maps themselves.

Book The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora

Download or read book The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora written by Suzanne Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Flowers of History

Download or read book The Flowers of History written by Matthew Paris and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrayed on the Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Hahn
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-11-20
  • ISBN : 9780520924802
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Portrayed on the Heart written by Cynthia Hahn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagiography, or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the literature and arts of the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and provides an analysis of their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahn's book is a virtual compendium of images-many rarely published-as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the role of various types of saints, the nature of their audience, and the historical moment when individual works were produced. After two informative introductory chapters setting the historical and narrative context of pictorial hagiography, Hahn considers the Lives of Martyrs and Virgins, Bishops, Monks and Abbots, and Kings and Queens, and concludes with an examination of the extraordinary chronicles and illustrations of the lives of saints by the English monk Matthew Paris. She considers such questions as: Why were illustrated saints' lives produced in such great numbers during this period? Why were they illustrated at all given the trouble and expense of such illustration? And to whom did the saints' lives appeal, and how did their readers use them? As she addresses these and other intriguing questions, Hahn traces changes that occurred over time both in the images and the stories, and shows how their creators, mostly the intellectual elite, were finely attuned to audience reception. This important aspect of hagiographic production has received scant attention in the past, and as she considers this issue in light of contemporary narrative theory, Hahn brings us to a fresh appreciation of these intricately illustrated manuscripts and their multiple audiences.

Book The Mighty Lalouche

Download or read book The Mighty Lalouche written by Matthew Olshan and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paris, France, there lived a humble postman named Lalouche. He was small, but his hands were nimble, his legs were fast, and his arms were strong. When his job was replaced by an electric car, he turned to boxing to support himself and his pet finch, Genevieve. But--"You? A boxer?" the fighters asked. "I could sneeze and knock you down!" Still, Lalouche refused to give up. And perhaps small Lalouche was just nimble . . . just fast . . . and just strong enough to beat his fierce competitors. This is a marvelous story, full of humor and heart, and illustrated by Sophie Blackall, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Award.

Book Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Download or read book Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Matthew Paris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing

Download or read book A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing written by D.R. Woolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Illuminated History Books in the Anglo Norman World  1066 1272

Download or read book Illuminated History Books in the Anglo Norman World 1066 1272 written by Laura Cleaver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World examines surviving medieval manuscripts from 1066 to 1272 and the people and processes involved in their creation. It addresses the reception and circulation of histories, and the different ways in which imagery and text could be used to create nuanced accounts of the past.

Book The Journey of a Book

Download or read book The Journey of a Book written by Elizabeth Keen and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant manuscript copies and printed editions, along with translations, adaptations, and mentions in poems and sermons, testify to its continuous significance for Europeans of all estates and different walks of life, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. While first compiled soon after the time of St Francis by a humble continental friar to meet the needs of his expanding religious brotherhood, by 1600 English men of letters had claimed Bartholomew as a noble compatriot and national treasure. What was it about the work that propelled it through a progression of medieval cultures and into an exalted position in the world of English letters? This reception history traces evidence for the journey of ‘Properties’ over four centuries of social, political and religious change.

Book Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Download or read book Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Matthaeus (Parisiensis.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Chronicle VI

Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle VI written by Erik Kooper and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Contents Contributors Preface Sophia Menache: Written and Oral Testimonies in Medieval Chronicles: Matthew Paris and Giovanni Villani Roger Scott: Byzantine Chronicles Alan Deyermond: Written by the Victors: Technique and Ideology in Official Historiography in Verse in Late-Medieval Spain.

Book Art and Political Thought in Medieval England  C  1150 1350

Download or read book Art and Political Thought in Medieval England C 1150 1350 written by Laura Slater and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art

Book Against the Friars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Rayborn
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-10-23
  • ISBN : 0786468319
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Against the Friars written by Tim Rayborn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friars represented a remarkable innovation in medieval religious life. Founded in the early 13th century, the Franciscans and Dominicans seemed a perfect solution to the Church's troubles in confronting rapid changes in society. They attracted enthusiastic support, especially from the papacy, to which they answered directly. In their first 200 years, membership grew at an astonishing rate, and they became counsellors to princes and kings, receiving an endless stream of donations and gifts. Yet there were those who believed the adulation was misguided or even dangerous, and who saw in the friars' actions only hypocrisy, deceit, greed and even signs of the end of the world. From the mid-13th century, writings appeared denouncing and mocking the friars and calling for their abolition. Their French and English opponents were among the most vocal. From harsh theological criticism and outrage at the Inquisition to vulgar tales and bathroom humor, this thoroughly documented work is suitable for the newcomer, as well as for readers who are familiar with the subject but might like to investigate specific topics in more detail.

Book A Source Book for Medi  val History

Download or read book A Source Book for Medi val History written by Oliver J. Thatcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.