Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century, Paperback - Johanna Dale

Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and...

This is a fresh approach to the familiar story of the rise and fall of the Angevins, providing an insight into personal relationships of the kings ...

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life ...

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In this collection the multidimensional story of children's literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, quest...

The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century - Dr Conrad Rudolph

Ancient stories invoking contemporary questions and providing insight for an uncertain futureThe Road to Kingship is the second volume in the A Peo...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

This collection offers bold new readings of the images, composition, reception, and contexts of the beautiful, twelfth-century Markyate Psalter.Pub...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

This study discusses how depictions of etymology and ancient documents were employed by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and histori...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

DescriptionThe Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century whi...

Brings together a selection of Cistercian Order's works. Featuring writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153), this bvolume also includes a...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

The dramatic story of a tumultuous period of English history - a time when kings fell, families were split and a way of life was lost forever. Pack...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of t...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Hans-Dietrich FischerNumber of pages: 242Collection: Pulitzer Prize PanoramaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x...

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, ma...

Reducere. The essays in this volume revisit issues of exile and occupation during the sixth century BCE through texts, iconography, and material culture. Unl...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

Reducere. Johann Christoph Arnold, admired by such prominent spiritual and inspirational leaders as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Cardinal Dolan, Pete Seege...

This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Oliphant"As Mercury dwelleth near the Sun, so I abide in the heart of my Lord. My feet run upon His errands and by my ...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

Reducere. Now Back in PrintJohanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentie...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. Yet the primary sources show that parties with disputes got on with the...

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examin...

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but comple...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inco...

Reducere. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the impo...

Reducere. 2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner A decade after the untimely death of renowned Scripture scholar Father Raymond E. Brown, SS, he contin...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

DescriptionIn this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised th...