Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter, Paperback - Janet Backhouse

Reducere. The Luttrell Psalter is one of the best-known English manuscripts. Written and illuminated in the early 14th century for Sir Geoffey Luttrell, it i...

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

The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fou...

Part childhood memoir, part biopic of rural life, the journey take place during the first two decades of the 21st century, through the referenda on...

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

Supravietuitorul. Povestea Operatiunii Redwing si a eroilor din Echipa SEAL 10 cazuti la datorie Intr-o seara de iunie 2005, patru soldati Navy SEA...

Reducere. This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rura...

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

Reducere. Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC. He was the...

DescriptionA year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife...

Reducere. As a young man, the author unfolds his profound and vibrant reflections of his luminous, candid, and intensely personal account of living in rural ...

The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective ...

Reducere. For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave tra...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

Reducere. Declining or plateauing rural churches do not have to die They can live and become an influence for good in their communities.Unfortunately, many r...

A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours. Brings together medicine, art, poetr...

Contributor(s): Author: Janet E. EspositoIn The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing is a perfect book for those who are...

Reducere. DescriptionNow with Metrical Tunes The Scottish Psalter was written anonymously in 1635. It was published and appointed for worship in 1650 by the ...

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 ...

``Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention... Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval Ci...

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.

There is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventual...

Reducere. This fascinating book combines the creative fun of coloring with an exciting sense of discovery as it realistically portrays many facets of life du...

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and betwe...

Reducere. August, 1968. Fifteen-year-old preacher's kid leaves her small Midwestern town (where pronouncing "tortilla" correctly meant you were bilingual, an...

This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres t...

New York Times Bestseller The beloved actress and star of One Tree Hill, White Collar, and Lethal Weapon, Hilarie Burton Morgan, tells the story of...

Reducere. She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog...but Daisy taught her to be a better person. When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend "Prison PU...

Reducere. Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

Reducere. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives w...

Reducere. Medieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies s Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating t...

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...

Reducere. Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard's thought and his life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots.Kierkegaard, like Einst...

Part memoire, part ethnography, readers are taken through moments of life, death, and midwifery in the Gurage lands of Ethiopia.Publisher: Pinter &...

Reducere. This book is about the art and architectural treasures in the Veneto, a province in Northern Italy. A primary focus is the work of Renaissance arch...

Reducere. Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either ...

Publisher: Henry Bradshaw SocietyNumber of pages: 272Collection: Henry Bradshaw SocietyPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 19Cover type: ...

Reducere. The idea of a messianic meta-narrative in the Book of Psalms is now widely accepted. But this is the book which, in 1997, established the hermeneut...

Myles Coverdale's translation of the Psalms is one of the most enduring-although the rest of the Bible was replaced by the Authorized Version in th...

Jon Pearce is the only police officer on two small islands off of the coast of England. He finds himself in over his head after a series of unexpla...

Reducere. An entire psalter of one hundred fifty psalms in The Book of Common Prayer translation set to Anglican chant in the time-honored "speech rhythm" po...

Reducere. This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, go...