Leprosy in Medieval England, Paperback - Carole Rawcliffe

A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings ...

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

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...

Description"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympath...

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

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...

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

This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.

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...

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

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eigh...

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

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...

First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdA...

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Reducere. 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...

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

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

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

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

Reducere. Description"At any rate, " ended Philippa-Dawn, staring up at the garland of silver monsters gently swaying above them in the evening sky, "at any ...

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...

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...

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows ho...

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

Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.Publisher: York Medieval PressIllustration(s): 1...

First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form, function, and significance.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Matthew J. WardIll...