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Book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies  Toronto  Canada  Gov Mant

Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Toronto Canada Gov Mant written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reign of King Stephen

Download or read book The Reign of King Stephen written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.

Book The Anarchy of King Stephen s Reign

Download or read book The Anarchy of King Stephen s Reign written by Edmund King and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) is famous as a period of weak government, as Stephen and his rival the Empress Matilda contended for power. This is a study of medieval kingship at its most vulnerable. It also shows how individuals and institutions enabled the monarchy to survive. A contemporary chronicler described the reign as "nineteen long winters in which Christ and his saints were asleep". Historians today refer to it simply as 'the Anarchy'. The weakness of government was the result of a disputed succession. Stephen lost control over Normandy, the Welsh marches, and much of the North. Contemporaries noted as signs of weakness the tyranny of the lords of castles, and the break-down of coinage. Stephen remained king for his lifetime, but leading churchmen and laymen negotiated a settlement whereby the crown passed to the Empress's son the future Henry II. This volume by leading scholars gives an original and up-to-date analysis of these major themes, and explains how the English monarchy was able to survive the Anarchy of King Stephen's reign.

Book Anglo Norman Medicine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Hunt
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780859915236
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Anglo Norman Medicine written by Tony Hunt and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation with original Latin text of medieval medical treatises, extending current knowledge of medieval medical science and learning.

Book The Life of St  Aethelwold

Download or read book The Life of St Aethelwold written by Wulfstan (of Winchester) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of St AEthelwold is one of the most important and interesting sources for the history of Anglo-Saxon England and for the religious movements of western Europe in the tenth century. It was written around the year 1000 by Wulfstan of Winchester, who had been a student of AEthelwold; the Life, therefore, provides a firsthand account of the activities of the man who was the central force in the Benedictine reform movement of the later tenth century. It also reveals the nature of AEthelwold's education and contacts with continental monasticism, and shows why Winchester became a focal point of late Anglo-Saxon culture. The present book, by two well-known authorities in the field of Anglo-Latin literature, provides the first critical edition of Wulfstan's Life. It is accompanied by a translation, extensive historical notes, and a substantial introduction which treats both Wulfstan and Aethelwold in the light of recent scholarly research. Appendices provide editions of other texts relevant to the study of AEthelwold, including a Latin Life by his pupil AElfric, some verses by a twelfth-century Ely poet, and a previously unprinted Middle English poem on the saint. This is a valuable edition of a major source, which will be welcomed by all students of Anglo-Saxon England.

Book Liber Niger Scaccarii

Download or read book Liber Niger Scaccarii written by England. Exchequer and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Church  Kingship  and Lay Investiture in England  1089 1135

Download or read book Church Kingship and Lay Investiture in England 1089 1135 written by Norman Frank Cantor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter part of the eleventh century a revolutionary group within the Western Church, centered in the papacy, attempted to overthrow the early medieval system of church-state relations by which the church in each country was under control of the kings and other secular rulers. Here is a comprehensive history of these controversies during the crucial period from the death of Archbishop Lanfranc in 1089 to the end of the reign of Henry I in 1135. The greater part of the book is concerned with the pontificate of Archbishop Anselm (1093-1109) and includes the first substantial account of the episcopal career of this famous theologian. In a concluding chapter, the obscure period in the history of the English Church from 1109 to 1135 is investigated, and the methods by which Henry I reasserted royal authority over the Church are indicated. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book A Companion to the Anglo Norman World

Download or read book A Companion to the Anglo Norman World written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.

Book Adam de Wodeham  Tractatus de Indivisibilibus

Download or read book Adam de Wodeham Tractatus de Indivisibilibus written by R. Wood and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-05-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Adam of Wodeham (d. 1358), was a disciple and friend of William of Ockham; he was also a student of Walther Chatton. Nevertheless, he was an independent thinker who did not hesitate to criticize his former teachers - Ockham sporadically and benevolently, Chatton, frequently and aggressively. Since W odeham developed his own doctrinal position by a thorough critical examination of current opinions, the first part of this introduc tion briefly outlines the positions of the chief figures in the English controversy over indivisibles. The second part of the introduction pre sents a summary of Wodeham's views in the Tractatus de indivisibilibus, lists the contents of the treatise, and considers the question of its date and its chronological position in the context of Wodeham's other works. In the third part, the editorial procedures used here are set forth. 1. THE INDIVISIBILIST CONTROVERSY In the literature of the 13th and 14th centuries, the term 'indivisible' refers to a simple, un extended entity. Consequently, these indivisibles are not physical atoms but either mathematical points, temporal instants or indivisibles of motion, usually called mutata esse. I THOMAS BRADWARDINE (d. 1349), roughly contemporary with Wodeham, classified the positions it was possible to take regarding indivisibles. He described his own view as the common view, that of "Aristotle, A verroes, and most of the moderns," according to which a "continuum was not composed of atoms (athomis) but of parts divisible without end.

Book Abbo of Fleury and Ramsey

Download or read book Abbo of Fleury and Ramsey written by A. M. Peden and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides the complete text of both the 5th century Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine and Abbo of Fleury's Commentary on it.

Book Patterns of Episcopal Power

Download or read book Patterns of Episcopal Power written by Ludger Körntgen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about "A Europe of Bishops" ("Ein Europa der Bischöfe") is presented in English translation for the first time.

Book King Stephen and The Anarchy

Download or read book King Stephen and The Anarchy written by Chris Peers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect on the common people across the country is hard to judge. That is why Chris Peerss fresh study of this fascinating and controversial era is of such value. He describes each phase of this civil war, in particular the castles and sieges that dominated strategic thinking, and he sets the fighting in the context of the changing tactics and military systems of the twelfth century. His fresh account of this pivotal episode in the medieval history of England will be absorbing reading anyone who is keen to gain an insight into this period of English history and has a special interest in the practice of medieval warfare.

Book The benedictional of Archbishop Robert

Download or read book The benedictional of Archbishop Robert written by Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power and Identity in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Power and Identity in the Middle Ages written by Huw Pryce and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging collection of thought-provoking essays examining power struggles and political identities in medieval Britain, featuring work from leading historians in the field. Celebrating the work of the late Rees Davies - a towering figure in the historiography of this period - the book focuses on his interests, opening up new perspectives on the political, social, and cultural history of the middle ages.

Book History of Banstead in Surrey

Download or read book History of Banstead in Surrey written by Sir Henry Charles Miller Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analogues of Chaucer s Canterbury Pilgrimage  April 1386  and His Putting up Joust Scaffolds  Etc   in West Smithfield  May 1390

Download or read book Analogues of Chaucer s Canterbury Pilgrimage April 1386 and His Putting up Joust Scaffolds Etc in West Smithfield May 1390 written by Frederick James Furnivall and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England and the Continent in the Eighth Century

Download or read book England and the Continent in the Eighth Century written by Wilhelm Levison and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: