Arts of Dying. Literature and Finitude in Medieval England, Paperback - D Vance Smith

DescriptionPeople in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.Publishe...

A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings ...

Drawing on a wide array of sources, including plea rolls, guides for confessors, and popular literature of the era, this book argues that issues of...

Fun and informative guide for the historical traveller, finding themselves living in Medieval England.Illustrations: Integrated black and white ill...

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Conor McCarthyNumbe...

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryAn overlooked aspect of the iconography of the A...

The Man of Law's Tale of terror and intrigue in the Canterbury Tales seriesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Paul DohertyNumber of pag...

In the Canterbury Tales series, the Knight's Tale reveals disturbing and macabre eventsPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Paul DohertyN...

DescriptionFor people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures tha...

The Clerk of Oxford's unnerving tale of mystery and murder from Paul Doherty's exceptional Canterbury pilgrimage series

Reducere. This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into d...

This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the...

Reducere. A moving illumination of the final transition of our lives.

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

Reducere. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine prese...

Vance's fantasy masterpiece, available for the first time in the UK as one volume.

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Ele...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

New paperback edition - The perfect almanac for lovers of all things medieval. A detailed picture is gathered from original sources.

Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns - a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-b...

First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Thijs PorckIllustr...

Presents a systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some five hundre...

Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Soren LilyNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 111 x 155 x 15Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul...

The Legitimacy of Bastards is the first book to consider the individuals who had illegitimate children, the ways in which they provided for them an...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Henr...

Subtitled: }A Handbook For Visitors To The Fourteenth Century{. A history lesson in the guide of a chatty, funny guidebook which prepares the reade...

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The impact of global trade on early American visual and material culturePublisher: University Press of New EnglandIllustration(s): 136 illus. (27 c...

A unique addition to the increasingly popular trend of looking at the ordinary lives of people. Provides an important perspective from the ground u...

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against sham...