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The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513 (Hardcover): William Hepburn The Household and Court of James IV of Scotland, 1488-1513 (Hardcover)
William Hepburn
R1,857 Discovery Miles 18 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its centrality to the effective government for which James IV is renowned. James IV is regarded by many historians as the most charismatic and politically successful of Scotland's rulers, with his royal court, and the institution of the royal household which underpinned it, at the heart of his reign. This book, the first comprehensive examination of the subject, takes the structures and personnel of the household - from councillors to stable-hands - as the foundation for its study of the court and its role. Beginning by looking at the distinction between household and court and the structures imposed by the household on the court, Hepburn utilises this framework to explore the lives of the people moving within it, both in terms of their duties as royal servants and their broader social and political worlds. The book argues that these people were both audience and performer in the court, receiving and producing messages about the king, royal government and the status of groups and individuals. Association with the household also became a feature of life for people away from the court, through the household-related terms in which they were described and through the lands they held. Overall, it highlights the central role of the court in the effective conduct of royal government for which James IV is renowned.

Coins in Churches - Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe (Hardcover): Svein H. Gullbekk,... Coins in Churches - Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe (Hardcover)
Svein H. Gullbekk, Christoph Kilger, Steinar Kristensen, Hakon Roland
R4,310 Discovery Miles 43 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the formative period of Church reform in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, when the Church paved the way for the development of money economy on its own doorstep. Church archaeology provides evidence for patterns of monetary use related to liturgy, church architecture and devotional culture through the centuries. This volume encompasses Alpine European evidence, with emphasis on Gotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, which opens up a new field of research on religion and money for an international audience. Based on 100,000 single finds of coins from the 11th to 18th centuries from 650 Scandinavian churches, the volume offers an in-depth discussion of the concepts of ritual, liturgy and devotional uses of money, monetary space and spiritual economy within the framework of Christendom, the medieval church and church architecture. Written by international scholars, Coins in Churches will be a valuable resource for readers interested in the history of religion, money, the economy, and church architecture in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages.

Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions - Analysis and Catalogue (Hardcover): Philip Butterworth Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions - Analysis and Catalogue (Hardcover)
Philip Butterworth
R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* This book offers an exciting examination of the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. * Would be recommended reading in for any undergraduate or master's level students studying the medieval period in Performance studies, English Literature or in History (in particular in the UK and the US). * The closest competitors focus on after 1560 so this project is a first in its time period coverage.

William Marshal - The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived (Paperback): Robin Griffith-Jones William Marshal - The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived (Paperback)
Robin Griffith-Jones
R184 R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Save R43 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

William Marshal, born about 1147, was the son of a minor lord who held the hereditary title of 'Marshal', or head of the king's security. He became a knight loyal to five kings, the most powerful man in the kingdom, the hero of Magna Carta and a saviour of England. At his funeral in the Temple Church, London, on 20 May 1219, he was described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as 'the greatest knight in the world'. William's son commissioned a biography of his father, The History of William Marshal, which brings William vividly to life and is the fullest and most dramatic such biography to reach us from the Middle Ages. The Rotunda of the Temple Church still contains eight 13th-century effigies of knights in armour. Three of the Marshals - William and two of his sons - are known to have been buried in the Church. By the late 16th century, antiquarians were trying to identify William's effigy among them; and since 1843 one effigy in particular has been universally accepted to be William's. This has recently been disputed by a set of drawings, dating to c. 1610, discovered in Washington, DC. These drawings show all the medieval effigies in the Temple Church - and a further, long-lost gravestone which matches the earliest descriptions of William's tomb. This raises a fascinating question: has the real monument to William been lost? This book will uncover the details of this latest discovery and commemorate the greatest knight that ever lived.

Kings and Queens of the Medieval World - From Conquerors and Exiles to Madmen and Saints (Hardcover): Martin J. Dougherty Kings and Queens of the Medieval World - From Conquerors and Exiles to Madmen and Saints (Hardcover)
Martin J. Dougherty
R646 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R153 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Great, the Pious, the Fair; the Wise, the Lame, the Mad. Imprisoned, deposed, exiled. Excommunicated, assassinated; devout, debauched; loved, loathed - the Middle Ages produced a fascinating array of monarchs. From Britain to Russia, from Scandinavia to Sicily, from the 9th century CE to the completion of the Reconquista of Spain in 1492, Kings & Queens of the Medieval World explores the captivating stories of monarchs from all across Europe. Arranged thematically, the book groups the kings and queens by their achievements - military leaders, law-makers, religious reformers, patrons of the arts. These are stories of monarchs leading their armies into battle to expand or defend their territory, and of kings - and queens - going on crusade - both within Europe and to the Holy Land. These, too, are stories of, on the one hand, countries united by marriage, and, on the other, sons scheming against fathers in an effort to gain - and maintain - power. And yet these are also the stories of the people who constructed beautiful cathedrals, who founded universities and supported artists, of religious kings who were later canonised, of kings who created more just legal systems, established parliaments and permanent armies, and laid the foundations for more modern governments and societies. Featuring the major European dynasties, Kings & Queens of the Medieval World is a lively account of monarchs from Charlemagne to Alexander Nevsky to Ferdinand and Isabella. Illustrated with 180 colour and black-and-white artworks, photographs and maps, this is a colourful, accessible history.

Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover): Andrew Dowling Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover)
Andrew Dowling
R4,057 Discovery Miles 40 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.

Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover): Neil Murphy Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover)
Neil Murphy
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider political and social conditions which predominated in the borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the populations on either side were closely connected, these neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature prominently.

The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover): Janet H. Stevenson The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover)
Janet H. Stevenson
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edition of the register of a late-medieval bishop's register sheds fascinating light on life at the time. Edward Story, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460 to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with the county of Sussex, contained several exempt jurisdictions, notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling. The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his diocese.The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary actionsrequired of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation, natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the kingdom. The documents are presented here in translation with full notes and introduction. Janet Stevenson, formerly an assistant editor of the Victoria History of Wiltshire, has edited The Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Record Society, 42, 1987) and The Durford Cartulary (Sussex Record Society, 90, 2006).

From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Paperback): Gerard Gouiran From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Paperback)
Gerard Gouiran; Edited by Linda Paterson
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this collection of essays Gerard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval Europe, he studies topics such as the representation of alterity through female figures and Saracens in opposition to the ideal of the Christian knight; the ways in which the narrating of history can become resistance and propaganda discourse in the clash between the Catholic Church and the French on the one hand, and the Cathar heretics and the people of Occitania on the other; questions of intertextuality and intercultural relations; cultural representations fashioning the West in contact with the East; and Christian dissidence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Written in an approachable style, the book will be of historical, literary and philological interest to scholars and students, as well as any reader curious about this hitherto little-known Occitan literature. (CS1087).

Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology (Paperback): Scott M. Williams Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology (Paperback)
Scott M. Williams
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call 'disability.' The chapters also compare what these medieval authors say with modern and contemporary philosophers and theologians of disability. This dual approach enriches our understanding of the history of disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology and opens up new avenues of research for contemporary scholars working on disability. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One addresses theoretical frameworks regarding disability, particularly on questions about the definition(s) of 'disability' and how disability relates to well-being. The chapters are then divided into two further parts in order to reflect ways that medieval philosophers and theologians theorized about disability. Part Two is on disability in this life, and Part Three is on disability in the afterlife. Taken as a whole, these chapters support two general observations. First, these philosophical theologians sometimes resist Greco-Roman ableist views by means of theological and philosophical anti-ableist arguments and counterexamples. Here we find some surprising disability-positive perspectives that are built into different accounts of a happy human life. We also find equal dignity of all human beings no matter ability or disability. Second, some of the seeds for modern and contemporary ableist views were developed in medieval Christian philosophy and theology, especially with regard to personhood and rationality, an intellectualist interpretation of the imago Dei, and the identification of human dignity with the use of reason. This volume surveys disability across a wide range of medieval Christian writers from the time of Augustine up to Francisco Suarez. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in medieval philosophy and theology, or disability studies.

The Ganitatilaka and its Commentary - Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts (Paperback): Alessandra Petrocchi The Ganitatilaka and its Commentary - Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts (Paperback)
Alessandra Petrocchi
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Ga?itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga?itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si?hatilakasuri (13th century CE). Si?hatilakasuri's commentary upon the Ga?itatilaka is a key text for the study of Sanskrit mathematical jargon and a precious source of information on mathematical practices of medieval India; this is, in fact, the first known Sanskrit mathematical commentary written by a Jaina monk, about whom we have substantial information, to survive to the present day. In presenting the first annotated translation of these two Sanskrit mathematical texts, this volume focusses on language in mathematics and puts forward a novel, fresh approach to Sanskrit mathematical literature which favours linguistic, literary features and textual data. This key resource makes these important texts available in English for the first time for students of Sanskrit, ancient and medieval mathematics, South Asian history, and philology.

Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback): Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume's organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Medieval Canon Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition): James A. Brundage, Melodie H. Eichbauer Medieval Canon Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
James A. Brundage, Melodie H. Eichbauer
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Melodie H. EICHBAUER is Professor of Medieval History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the editor of A Cultural History of Genocide, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021) and The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018) with Danica Summerlin and other volumes. Her research focuses on the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500 James A BRUNDAGE (1929-2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at the University of Kansas, USA. His publications included The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts (2008), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996) edited with Vern L. Bullough, and Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (1987).

Making Miracles in Medieval England (Hardcover): Tom Lynch Making Miracles in Medieval England (Hardcover)
Tom Lynch
R4,055 Discovery Miles 40 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Making Miracles in Medieval England will appeal to all those interested in religious practices in medieval England, medieval English culture, and medieval perceptions of miracles.

Medieval Panjab in Transition - Authority, Resistance and Spirituality c.1500 - c.1700 (Hardcover): Surinder Singh Medieval Panjab in Transition - Authority, Resistance and Spirituality c.1500 - c.1700 (Hardcover)
Surinder Singh
R4,550 Discovery Miles 45 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reconstructs the historical transition in the undivided Panjab during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the assertion of Mughal and Afghan suzerainty faced sustained resistance from local elements, particularly the autonomous tribes and hill chiefdoms. In central plains, Dulla Bhatti mobilized the toilers of his ancestral domain and, leading a relentless fight against the Mughal oppression, became an abiding symbol of resistance in the collective memory. The multicultural legacy of Panjab evolved through diverse strands of spirituality. The jogis, wedded to monastic discipline, supernatural abilities and land grants, gained acceptance through their exertions for social betterment. The Sabiri and Qadiri silsilas channelized mystical urges towards the technique of prime recitation. The popular verses of Shah Husain, Baba Lal and Sultan Bahu proposed a loving relation with God. The legendary lovers, perishing in the struggles against patriarchal forces, promoted a merger of dissent with spirituality. In the city of Lahore, the material pursuits and cultural life were visible in a mosaic of descriptions, including episodes of social tension. The book understands the upliftment of depressed castes as a defining feature of Sikhism. It places egalitarian concern of the Sikh Gurus alongside the anti-caste protests of Namdev, Kabir and Ravidas. Owing to scriptural authority and congregational equality, the members of depressed castes attained a numerical majority in the Sikh warrior bands that shook the foundations of the Mughal state. The work relies on evidence from the Persian chronicles, Mughal newsletters, Sufi writings, Sikh literature and Punjabi folklore. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Paperback): Luigi Andrea Berto Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Paperback)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past through the lens of the history of Italy during the post-Roman/early Middle Ages, this book guides postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students through these new research areas and explores the importance of their study. The book focuses ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were sometimes influenced by their own "present" in their reconstruction of the past. Enabling students to see how the past was 'used' by those who recorded it. The volume also assesses the challenges that the features of the primary sources and sometimes their scarcity poses to their interpretations, providing a useful guide for students engaging with these sources for the first time.

Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover): Grzegorz... Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover)
Grzegorz Bartusik, Radoslaw Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text / This will appeal to all those interested in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum / This volume contains essays from leading researchers bring forward the latest studies in this topic.

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback): David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback)
David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.

The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Paperback, illustrated edition): Andrew Palmer The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Andrew Palmer; Commentary by Andrew Palmer
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles" makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history. The general introduction enables a newcomer to the field to establish his bearings before tackling the texts.

The Huns (Paperback): Hyunjin Kim The Huns (Paperback)
Hyunjin Kim
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated as a footnote in the histories of the later Roman Empire and early Germanic peoples. Kim addresses this imbalance and challenges the commonly held assumption that the Huns were a savage people who contributed little to world history, examining striking geopolitical changes brought about by the Hunnic expansion over much of continental Eurasia and revealing the Huns' contribution to European, Iranian, Chinese and Indian civilization and statecraft. By examining Hunnic culture as a Eurasian whole, The Huns provides a full picture of their society which demonstrates that this was a complex group with a wide variety of ethnic and linguistic identities. Making available critical information from both primary and secondary sources regarding the Huns' Inner Asian origins, which would otherwise be largely unavailable to most English speaking students and Classical scholars, this is a crucial tool for those interested in the study of Eurasian Late Antiquity.

Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Hardcover): Luigi Andrea Berto Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages' (Hardcover)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past through the lens of the history of Italy during the post-Roman/early Middle Ages, this book guides postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students through these new research areas and explores the importance of their study. The book focuses ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were sometimes influenced by their own "present" in their reconstruction of the past. Enabling students to see how the past was 'used' by those who recorded it. The volume also assesses the challenges that the features of the primary sources and sometimes their scarcity poses to their interpretations, providing a useful guide for students engaging with these sources for the first time.

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover): Stefano Trovato Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture (Hardcover)
Stefano Trovato
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses Julian from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture and will therefore appeal to all those interested in Byzantine perspectives on Late Roman history / Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture will appeal to researchers and students alike in Byzantine perspectives on Julian, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the Later Roman Empire / This book will also appeal to those interested in Byzantine Historiography.

A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback): Irina Metzler A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback)
Irina Metzler
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people might have today can already be traced back to medieval social institutions and cultural attitudes. This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people, and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and charity in the support and care of disabled people.

Blood Theology - Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk (Hardcover): Eugene F. Rogers, Jr Blood Theology - Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk (Hardcover)
Eugene F. Rogers, Jr
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The unsettling language of blood has been invoked throughout the history of Christianity. But until now there has been no truly sustained treatment of how Christians use blood to think with. Eugene F. Rogers Jr. discusses in his much-anticipated new book the sheer, surprising strangeness of Christian blood-talk, exploring the many and varied ways in which it offers a language where Christians cooperate, sacrifice, grow and disagree. He asks too how it is that blood-talk dominates when other explanations would do, and how blood seeps into places where it seems hardly to belong. Reaching beyond academic disputes, to consider how religious debates fuel civil ones, he shows that it is not only theologians or clergy who engage in blood-talk, but also lawmakers, judges, generals, doctors and voters at large. Religious arguments have significant societal consequences, Rogers contends; and for that reason secular citizens must do their best to understand them.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 48 (Hardcover): Rosalind Love, Simon Keynes, Rory Naismith Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 48 (Hardcover)
Rosalind Love, Simon Keynes, Rory Naismith
R2,835 R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Save R207 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contributions to the forty-eighth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the twelfth century. This volume begins with an examination of Beowulf fitt II and the Andreas-poet, and ends with a study of St Dunstan and the heavenly choirs of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, as related in Goscelin's Historia translationis S. Augustini. Also included are articles on Leofric of Exeter and liturgical performance as pastoral care, legal culture under Dena lage with reference to III AEthelred, an Agnus Dei penny of King AEthelred the Unready and self-seeking in The Metres of Boethius. Latin verse in an Old English medical codex is examined with reference to Bald's Colophon, the figure of Beow is explored in a Scandinavian context and a new solution is provided for Exeter Riddle 55. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.

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