Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium. The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses, New ed, Paperback - ***

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

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

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A pioneering exploration of the performance of hymns in Byzantium over a period of almost four centuries, investigating how hymnody wove together f...

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in th...

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

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

Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Mary B. (University of Nottingham) CunninghamIllustration(s): Worked examples or ExercisesNumber of...

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

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

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

DescriptionThis book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in ...

The remarkable 1, 000-year history of one of the world's greatest and most misunderstood empiresPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): John Hal...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

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

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

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

Reducere. Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-ma...

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an an...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

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

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing assumptions around genre and...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

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 ...

Reducere. No one can speak for Bob Dylan except Bob Dylan. Fiction, however, has other thoughts and in Songs from a Voice, Being the Recollections, Stanzas a...

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...

Reducere. EMF (electromagnetic fields) cannot be seen, therefore it is hard to imagine they would have an impact on our health. However, the evidence outline...

The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance prac...

Reducere. ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...