Practising Shame. Female Honour in Later Medieval England, Paperback - Mary C. Flannery

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionMary's StoryOctober 21, 1949, in the bucolic little town of around 2, 000 souls, Beaver, Utah, all seemed right in my world. World War I...

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

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

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

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

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

A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings ...

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

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

Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with tho...

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...

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

Fun and informative guide for the historical traveller, finding themselves living in Medieval England.Illustrations: Integrated black and white ill...

Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 6 Map...

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. A mongrel pup helps two children unmask a clever deception! Kerry and Mark get a special excuse from school to spend ten days in Quebec with their ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary C. JaneWhat a lonely place for Elisabeth -- only empty summer cottages and sandy roads without cars and people. But sh...

Mary Murphy offers a detailed and in-depth analysis of Northern Ireland's relationship with the EU, the role the EU has played in rebuilding the re...

This interdisciplinary collection, which brings together new research on a range of patristic and medieval texts and visual materials, sets the cul...

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...

Tap into the magical way of unicorns with this unicorn-derived self help featuring a playful quiz and suggestions for establishing 'unicorn spaces'.

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

Publisher: The Highfield Press SouthamptonNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 300 x 211 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdito...

Reducere. Covering an extensive variety of grammatical constructions, A Little Latin Reader, Second Edition, is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses...

Reducere. This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries....

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

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'...

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

Contains fascinating details of the lives and crimes of women in Victorian England.

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...

Reducere. The author has captured the essence of Mrs. Buckallew's character and her life. This story is one that will appeal to all ages and walks of life. M...