Margaret of Anjou - Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England, Paperback - Helen E. Maurer

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award WinnerMargaret of Anjou remains a figure of controversy. As wife to the weak King Henry VI, she was on...

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 ...

Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.Illustrations: 4 Line drawing...

Reducere. B.M. Cron's thoroughly researched biography offers a reassessment of Margaret of Anjou's life, her character, her aims and her dealings with the me...

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 volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries, and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis and historical research. ...

Reducere. 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 ...

Set against the backdrop of Elizabethan England, Margaret Clitherow's story -her trial, execution and sainthood -gives a fresh perspective on one o...

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

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

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. It ...

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...

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

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 ...

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between th...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Caroline Walker BynumNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paperback / so...

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

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...