Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England, Hardcover - Benjamin A. Saltzman

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...

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...

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

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Joshua C., J.D., Ph.D. TateIllustration(s): 9 b-w illus.Number of pages: 272Collection: Yale Law Library...

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...

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

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...

The Guardian best history book of 2016 - a fantastic story of an aristocratic family desperate to prove that one of their own is insane

Reducere. Connect with your higher nature-a practical guide to universal spirituality A spiritual awakening is taking place around the globe-and you can be a...

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...

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 ...

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

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth Carolyn MillerIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dim...

An exploration of how AEthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer...

DescriptionThis History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical ...

DescriptionThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performanc...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

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

Pigs were an integral part of society in the medieval West. Historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates how the working relationships between humans and p...

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how mag...

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...

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

Reducere. Saint Gregory of Tours' comprehensive history of the Frankish people, who ruled over much of what is modern-day France and Germany, is published he...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents ...

With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship w...

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Richard TaylorIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 202...

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

Biblical Law has been defined differently by different theological backgrounds. Largely ignored, or openly rejected, by many mainstream Protestant ...

Reducere. How One Man Created a Profession--and Entirely Transformed the World of Investing "The small list of investment books that must grace the library o...

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on grounds of ...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 6 b/w illus.Numb...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then keep reading...The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important ...

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

Reducere. The great eighteenth-century theorist of international law Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) was a key figure in sustaining the practical and theoretical ...

DescriptionThe medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts...

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This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Medieval England, then keep reading...Medieval England's history starts with the fall of the...

A double biography of two forgotten Early Medieval queens: Brunhild and Fredegund.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Shelley PuhakIllustration(s): 1...

In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustr...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

Reducere. Why a 'spectacle' of the body? Why not an 'imaginary' of the body or 'images' or perhaps 'concepts'? Even to the lay reader, the two sets - 'specta...

Boethius’ masterpiece, The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524) can be counted among the most popular books of the early Middle Ages: it was extensiv...