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Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Tradi - Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent by Jennifer N. Brown 9781903153963
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.84Michael G. Sargent's scholarship on late medieval English devotional literature has been hugely influential on the fields of Middle English literature, religious studies, and manuscript studies. His... -
Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015 Katherine Cross 9781903153970
Booksplease Price: $35.60Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the... -
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain - The French of England, c.1100-c.1500 by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne 9781903153277
Booksplease Price: $75.03With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of... -
Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England by Linne R. Mooney
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $118.25One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. Long regarded as mere textual repositories, and treated... -
The Revolt of Owain Glynd r in Medieval English Chronicles by Alicia Marchant
Booksplease Price: $117.88The revolt of Owain Glyndwr (1400-c.1415) was a remarkable event in both English and Welsh contexts, and as such was narrated by a number of chroniclers, including Adam Usk, John Capgrave, Thomas... -
Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities by Hollie L.S. Morgan 9781914049279
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $51.33First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages. The bed, and the chamber which... -
The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century: the Archbishops of York and their Records by Paul Dryburgh 9781914049156
Booksplease Price: $144.38Essays offering insights into the ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history in the north of England during the fourteenth century through an exploration of the administrative archives of... -
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700 by Professor Peter Biller 9781914049255
Booksplease Price: $42.85Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of... -
Piety, Fraternity and Power - Religious Gilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547 by David Crouch 9780952973447
Booksplease Price: $141.04The religious gild was central to the structure of late medieval society, providing lay people with a focus for public expressions of orthodox piety that accorded with the doctrinal views of... -
The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham - `Worldly Cares` at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century by Sylvia Federico 9781903153635
Booksplease Price: $105.46The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected - which this book... -
Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages by Helen Fulton
Booksplease Price: $123.98Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and... -
Inquisition and its Organisation in Italy, 1250-1350 by Jill Moore 9781903153895
Booksplease Price: $117.49A strikingly original approach to the inquisition movement in Italy, examining the roles of the protagonists. Inquisition against heresy in Italy was a partnership between the papal inquisitor,... -
The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel - Richard Sheale of Tamworth by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $87.63A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be flourishing well into the Tudor period. Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from Tamworth, is... -
Herbert of Bosham - A Medieval Polymath by Michael Staunton
Booksplease Price: $105.84In-depth study of an important writer and close associate of Becket. Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194) was one of the most brilliant, original and versatile thinkers of the twelfth century... -
Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire Johanna Dale 9781903153987
Booksplease Price: $35.60Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and onward. The long twelfth century heralded a... -
Heresy in Late Medieval Germany - The Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians by Reima Valimaki
Booksplease Price: $140.65First major survey of the German inquisitor Petrus Zwicker, one of the most significant figures in the repression of heresy. In the final years of the fourteenth century, waves of persecution... -
Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy by Caterina Bruschi
Booksplease Price: $117.49Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy. Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else was... -
Saints` Legends in Medieval Sarum Breviaries - A Catalogue and Studies by Sherry L. Reames
Booksplease Price: $143.99Comprehensive catalogue of the hagiographical lessons in Sarum breviaries, with key studies of the most crucial elements. Sarum Use was the most widely used form of the liturgy in late medieval... -
Youth in the Middle Ages P J P Goldberg 9781903153130
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $83.64Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Aries, these essays address evidence... -
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture - The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins by Richard G. Newhauser
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $144.84A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence. The tradition of the seven deadly sins played a considerable role in... -
Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England by Linda Tollerton
Booksplease Price: $117.88A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and commemorative arrangements adopted. A remarkable... -
Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century Nicola F McDonald 9781903153154
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.97A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as they affected individuals at all points of their lives. Rites of... -
Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care - Essays in Honour of Bella Millett by Cate Gunn
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England. Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations... -
Old English Poetics - The Aesthetics of the Familiar in Anglo-Saxon England by Elizabeth M. Tyler
Booksplease Price: $123.98A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and... -
Interpreting MS Digby 86 - A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire by Susanna Fein 9781903153901
Booksplease Price: $117.88A range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript. Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford, Bodleian... -
Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia c. 1470-1550 by Ken Farnhill 9781903153055
Booksplease Price: $123.98Evidence of parish organisation in late medieval England, and the impact of the Henrician Reformation at parish level. The parish and the guild were the two poles round which social and religious... -
Pilgrimage Explored by Jennie Stopford
Booksplease Price: $105.46The history and underlying ideology of pilgrimage examined, from prehistory to the middle ages. The enduring importance of pilgrimage as an expression of human longing is explored in this volume... -
The Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts by Richard Ingham
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.77Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms. The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of... -
Dudo of Saint-Quentin`s Historia Normannorum - Tradition, Innovation and Memory by Benjamin Pohl
Booksplease Price: $117.88Interdisciplinary study of one of the most important texts of the Anglo-Norman period. When Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum first appeared in or around 1015, written for the then Duke... -
The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England by James Bothwell
Booksplease Price: $95.42Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer... -
Rethinking Chaucer`s Legend of Good Women by Carolyn P. Collette
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.58A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works. Professor Collette's approach to this challenging and provocative poem reflects her wide... -
Henry IV - The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406 by Gwilym Dodd 9781903153123
Booksplease Price: $105.46The crucial first years of Henry IV's reign examined, to discover how he met and overcame the challenges created by his usurpation of the throne. Having seized the throne from his cousin Richard... -
Cathars in Question by Antonio Sennis 9781903153819
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.01The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism... -
Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages by Peter Biller
Booksplease Price: $140.65Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances. The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical... -
The Reign of Edward II - New Perspectives by Gwilym Dodd
Booksplease Price: $105.84A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively... -
Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600 by Merridee L. Bailey
Booksplease Price: $117.88An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the... -
Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England by Merridee L. Bailey
Booksplease Price: $35.86An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the... -
Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250 - Medicine, Power and Religion by Claire Weeda
Booksplease Price: $144.38An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages. Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans... -
MS Junius 11 and its Poetry by Carl Kears
Booksplease Price: $105.46A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 to discover some of the preoccupations of... -
Christians and Jews in Angevin England - The York Massacre of 1190, Narratives and Contexts by Sarah Rees Jones 9781903153642
Booksplease Price: $47.45The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies...