Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature. Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity, Hardback - Juliette Vuille

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdA...

How was medieval English theatre performed? This book analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehears...

Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The ...

An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/wNumber of ...

From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritu...

This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the rol...

The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first...

Provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

Essays on the performance of drama from the Middle Ages, ranging from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran.Illustrations: 1 Line drawi...

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 260Collection: Theme...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts...

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Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in ...

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This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with...

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

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

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in...

Reducere. An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the...

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

My Little Album of Dublin takes the youngest of readers on a fun filled tour of the Fair City. Along the way, they will build up their vocabulary i...

First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle Ages, giving insights into classical reception.

Analyzing outlaw literature as a form of nature writing, Harlan-Haughey suggests that it often reveals more about medieval anxieties respecting hum...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Australia) BendallIllustration(s): 150 color and bw illusNumb...

The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced stude...

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water prov...

Henry V saw his reign and military efforts in France as a holy crusade to reclaim the French throne for his ancestors. Almost everything he did was...

Reducere. In the Middle Ages, the region of Tuscany and its surrounding area was, for around 150 years, home to a surprising number of holy women, from the b...

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

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Reducere. E curioasa. E curajoasa. E rebela. E moisterioasa. Ea e Twister. Aceasta este povestea unei fete curajoase si inteligente; a unei vrajitoare care t...

The lives and loves of some of the most extraordinary women in Georgian Britain.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Mike RendellIllustration...

A provocative and compelling illustrated cultural history of the world's oldest profession that recovers the stories of those who sold sex for a li...

A new Pew Bible using the ESV translation, in British English, with a large typeface and lightweight design, with classic blue cover

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary t...

Considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The wor...

This book investigates medieval concepts of authorship with reference to German narratives written between 1220 and 1290. It combines analyses of l...

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The Encounter Youth and Young Adults Bible is a modern and engaging edition of the anglicised ESV bible. This brand-new edition is perfect for all ...

Valla Moonring is a dragon hybrid assassin who is ordered on a mission into the Wastelands of Aria-a formidable, icy wilderness fraught with all ma...

Reducere. This veritable handbook of the Roman Liturgy for the so-called "Great Week, " or Holy Week, commemorating the chief historical events in the Christ...

Reducere. This book offers the entire text of the Holy Qur'an translated into modern, free-flowing English. It provides explanatory background information so...