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Medieval Monasticism (Hardcover): Giles Constable Medieval Monasticism (Hardcover)
Giles Constable
R4,161 Discovery Miles 41 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1064 This collection of Giles Constable's key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history provides nothing less than a comprehensive overview of research in the field. The book provides an insight into monastic life in the Middle Ages - from Germany to Normandy and from England to Sicily.

Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Paperback): Giles Constable Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
Giles Constable
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in the crusades, including not only those who took the cross but many others who shared the costs and losses, as well as the triumphs of the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the crusades in the twelfth century, but a group of studies illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over in narrative histories, including the courses and historiography of the crusades, their background, ideology, and finances, and how they were seen in Europe. Included are revised and updated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. They provide an opportunity to meet some individual crusaders, such as Odo Arpinus, whose remarkable career carried him from France to the east and back again, and whose legendary exploits in the Holy Land were recorded in the Old French crusade cycle. Other studies take the reader to the boundaries of Christendom in Spain and Portugal and in eastern Germany, where the campaigns against the Wends formed part of the wider crusading movement. Together they show the range and depth of crusading at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.

Medieval Thought and Historiography (Hardcover): Giles Constable Medieval Thought and Historiography (Hardcover)
Giles Constable
R4,148 Discovery Miles 41 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1065 We assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality this is a subject of enormous complexity of which conclusions can only be drawn via painstaking archival research and decades of study. Giles Constable has spent a career analysing these forces and impulses and this new collection draws together his major findings on a host of topics including frontiers, metaphors, religious life and spirituality, and concepts of political theory.

Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Hardcover, New Ed): Giles Constable Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Hardcover, New Ed)
Giles Constable
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in the crusades, including not only those who took the cross but many others who shared the costs and losses, as well as the triumphs of the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the crusades in the twelfth century, but a group of studies illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over in narrative histories, including the courses and historiography of the crusades, their background, ideology, and finances, and how they were seen in Europe. Included are revised and updated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. They provide an opportunity to meet some individual crusaders, such as Odo Arpinus, whose remarkable career carried him from France to the east and back again, and whose legendary exploits in the Holy Land were recorded in the Old French crusade cycle. Other studies take the reader to the boundaries of Christendom in Spain and Portugal and in eastern Germany, where the campaigns against the Wends formed part of the wider crusading movement. Together they show the range and depth of crusading at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.

Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries - Further Studies (Hardcover, New Ed): Giles Constable Cluny from the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries - Further Studies (Hardcover, New Ed)
Giles Constable
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organisation and spirituality, from its foundation in 910 until the end of the twelfth century. After an opening article on the early history of Cluny, relating it to previous monasticism and the monastic world of the tenth century, there are a group of articles on how monks were admitted to Cluny, how they were organised, what they did, and on the monastery's privileges. Two articles are concerned with Cluny's relations with the abbey of Baume and another with Cluny and the First Crusade. Finally there are a group of articles on Cluny in the twelfth century. One deals with the relations between the abbots and the increasingly assertive townsmen of Cluny and another with the confused period following the death of Peter the Venerable, when there were a series of relatively short-term abbots, and one apparent anti-abbot.

Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed): Giles Constable Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Giles Constable
R3,984 Discovery Miles 39 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies in the present selection of Giles Constable's work concentrate on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries, though they also touch on the early and late Middle Ages. The cultural articles are concerned respectively with perceptions of time and the past, forgery (seen as a reflection of social and religious concerns), entry to religious life, preaching, and letters and letter-writing. The articles on spirituality deal with the themes of suffering and attitudes towards the self, especially the growing concentration on the individual in the religious life of the 12th century.

Medieval Monasticism (Paperback): Giles Constable Medieval Monasticism (Paperback)
Giles Constable
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1064 This collection of Giles Constable's key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history provides nothing less than a comprehensive overview of research in the field. The book provides an insight into monastic life in the Middle Ages - from Germany to Normandy and from England to Sicily.

Medieval Thought and Historiography (Paperback): Giles Constable Medieval Thought and Historiography (Paperback)
Giles Constable
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1065 We assume that we have a clear understanding of how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck but in reality this is a subject of enormous complexity of which conclusions can only be drawn via painstaking archival research and decades of study. Giles Constable has spent a career analysing these forces and impulses and this new collection draws together his major findings on a host of topics including frontiers, metaphors, religious life and spirituality, and concepts of political theory.

How to Defeat the Saracens - Guillelmus Ade, Tractatus Quomodo Sarraceni Sunt Expugnandi; Text and Translation with Notes... How to Defeat the Saracens - Guillelmus Ade, Tractatus Quomodo Sarraceni Sunt Expugnandi; Text and Translation with Notes (Hardcover)
William Of Adam William Of Adam, Giles Constable, Ranabir Chakravarti, Olivia Remie Constable, Tia Kolbaba
R861 R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Save R69 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fall of Acre in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover Jerusalem. One of these proposals is How to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of Adam, a Dominican who traveled in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. Extensive notes guide the reader through the historical context of this fascinating work.

The World of Medieval Monasticism - Its History and Forms of Life (Paperback): Gert Melville The World of Medieval Monasticism - Its History and Forms of Life (Paperback)
Gert Melville; Translated by James D. Mixson; Foreword by Giles Constable
R1,292 R1,079 Discovery Miles 10 790 Save R213 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe's move toward modernity.

Mediaeval Monasticism - Select Bibliography (Paperback): Giles Constable Mediaeval Monasticism - Select Bibliography (Paperback)
Giles Constable
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Monastic Tithes - From their Origins to the Twelfth Century (Paperback): Giles Constable Monastic Tithes - From their Origins to the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
Giles Constable
R1,603 Discovery Miles 16 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No tax in Europe can compare with tithes in its duration, the extent of its application and the economic burden it imposed. In this study Professor Constable considers the tithes paid to and by monks in the Middle Ages. In particular he examines why, by the twelfth century, most monks received tithes and many of them were freed from payment, in spite of earlier theory and practice by which monks, as distinct from the clergy, were usually forbidden to receive tithes and required to pay them. In the early Middle Ages monastic tithes were a matter not only of economics, but of doctrine, canon law and monastic theory. Their history lies in the borderland between theory and practice and Professor Constable studies them against a background of changes in property relationships, in the theory of tithing and in the nature of the monastic order.

The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Paperback, Revised): Giles Constable The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Paperback, Revised)
Giles Constable
R1,604 Discovery Miles 16 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is concerned with the changes in religious thought and institutions from the late eleventh century to the third quarter of the twelfth. It concentrates on monks and nuns, but also takes into consideration hermits, recluses, wandering preachers, crusaders, penitents, and other less organized forms of religious life. In particular it studies the variety of reform movements, the relation of the reformers to each other and the outside world, and their spirituality and motivation as reflected in their writings and activities.

Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought - The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, the Ideal of the Imitation of... Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought - The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, the Ideal of the Imitation of Christ, the Orders of Society (Paperback, Revised)
Giles Constable
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume concentrates on the changes in religious thought and institutions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes not only monks and nuns but also less organised types of life such as hermits, recluses, crusaders, and penitents. It is complimentary to Professor Constable's subsequent book, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (now also published as a paperback), but is dissimilar to it in examining three themes over a long period, from late Antiquity to the seventeenth century, in order to show how they changed over time.

Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought - The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, the Ideal of the Imitation of... Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought - The Interpretation of Mary and Martha, the Ideal of the Imitation of Christ, the Orders of Society (Hardcover, New)
Giles Constable
R3,476 Discovery Miles 34 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These three studies concentrate on the changes in religious thought and institutions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and include not only monks and nuns but also less organized types of life such as hermits, recluses, crusaders, and penitents. "The Interpretation of Mary and Martha" deals primarily with the balance of action and contemplation in Christian life; "The Ideal of the Imitation of Christ" studies the growing emphasis on the human Christ, especially His body and wounds; and "The Orders of Society" looks at the conceptual divisions of society and the emergence of the modern idea of a middle class.

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