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This popular BEC series has been completely revised. PASS Cambridge
BEC is a practical course for students who wish to gain a
recognised business English qualification. Focusing on relevant
international business situations, the course has been structured
to provide students with a thorough preparation for the Business
English Certificates (BEC).
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The PASS Cambridge BEC Preliminary Workbook is an important
component of the course. It provides a language-focused supplement
to the Student's Book. Each four-page unit is split into a grammar
and vocabulary section.
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A comprehensive survey which begins with the rise of the Franks,
then examines the Merovingians.
Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in
Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He
is best known as the author of the Life of Columbanus and His
Disciples, one of the most important works of hagiography from the
early medieval period, that charts the remarkable journey of the
Irish exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (d. 615), through
Western Europe, as well as the monastic movement initiated by him
and his Frankish successors in the Merovingian kingdoms. In the
years following Columbanus's death numerous new monasteries were
built by his successors and their elite patrons in Francia that
decisively transformed the inter-relationship between monasteries
and secular authorities in the Early Middle Ages. Jonas also wrote
two other, occasional works set in the late fifth and sixth
centuries: the Life of John, the abbot and founder of the monastery
of Reome in Burgundy, and the Life of Vedast, the first bishop of
Arras and a contemporary of Clovis. Both works provide perspectives
on how the past Gallic monastic tradition, the role of bishops, and
the Christianization of the Franks were perceived in Jonas's time.
Jonas's hagiography also provides important evidence for the
reception of classical and late antique texts as well as the works
of Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours.This volume presents the
first complete English translation of all of Jonas of Bobbio's
saints' Lives with detailed notes and scholarly introduction that
will be of value to all those interested in this period.
Examines how great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and were not only agents of change, but also some of Europe's first historians. Missionaries brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. The roles and aims of the missionaries provide a starting point for the history of early medieval Europe. While spiritualism is examined Ian Wood also focuses on the darker side of missionary life - flagellation, starvation, torture - as well as sanctity. Contemporary willing and unwilling evangelism relates to some of these first Christian pioneers.
The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to
posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan
societies of Dark Age Europe. Not only agents of change, they were
also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record
of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in
England is just one example. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's equally
ambitious and compelling survey The Missionary Life, will
rediscover his ability to bring a remote age to life. The
unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled to
produce a uniquely wide-ranging account - giving a sense of the
individual experience and collective ethos of the mission, the
missionaries' influence on communities and their links to the rest
of Christendom.
This popular BEC series has been completely revised. PASS Cambridge
BEC is a practical course for students who wish to gain a
recognised business English qualification. Focusing on relevant
international business situations, the course has been structured
to provide students with a thorough preparation for the Business
English Certificates (BEC).
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Sergey Naboko
(1950-2020). In addition to original research contributions
covering the vast areas of interest of Sergey Naboko, it includes
personal reminiscences and comments on the works and legacy of
Sergey Naboko’s scientific achievements. Areas from complex
analysis to operator theory, especially, spectral theory, are
covered, and the papers will inspire current and future researchers
in these areas.
A comprehensive survey which begins with the rise of the Franks,
then examines the Merovingians.
Jonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in
Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He
is best known as the author of the Life of Columbanus and His
Disciples, one of the most important works of hagiography from the
early medieval period, that charts the remarkable journey of the
Irish exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (d. 615), through
Western Europe, as well as the monastic movement initiated by him
and his Frankish successors in the Merovingian kingdoms. In the
years following Columbanus's death numerous new monasteries were
built by his successors and their elite patrons in Francia that
decisively transformed the inter-relationship between monasteries
and secular authorities in the Early Middle Ages. Jonas also wrote
two other, occasional works set in the late fifth and sixth
centuries: the Life of John, the abbot and founder of the monastery
of Reome in Burgundy, and the Life of Vedast, the first bishop of
Arras and a contemporary of Clovis. Both works provide perspectives
on how the past Gallic monastic tradition, the role of bishops, and
the Christianization of the Franks were perceived in Jonas's time.
Jonas's hagiography also provides important evidence for the
reception of classical and late antique texts as well as the works
of Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours.This volume presents the
first complete English translation of all of Jonas of Bobbio's
saints' Lives with detailed notes and scholarly introduction that
will be of value to all those interested in this period.
Fragments of history: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle
monuments is an innovative study of the two premier survivals of
pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Both monuments are rich in
finely carved images and complex inscriptions. Though in some way
related, in this book, they have very different histories. This
ambitious study draws the reader in through a vivid exposition of
the problems left by earlier interpretations, shows him or her how
to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a
history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes
with a deeply persuasive discussion of their underlying premises.
Orton, Wood and Lees bring their research in art history and
antiquarianism, history and archaeology, medieval literature,
philosophy and gender studies into a successful and coherent whole,
organised around certain key notions, such as place, history and
tradition, style, similarity and difference, time, textuality and
identity. Theoretically astute, rigorously researched, vivid and
readable, Fragments of history is a model of how interdisciplinary
research can be conducted, written and published. It will be
required reading in a number of disciplines, including art history,
Anglo-Saxon studies, medieval language and literature, history and
ecclesiastical history, antiquarianism and archaeology. -- .
The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided
into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and
economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how
do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective
synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the
Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular
discourse. The Church was at the heart of the changes that look
place at the end of the Western Empire, not only regarding
religion, but indeed every aspect of politics and society. Wood
contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge
scale was a key factor in the transformation which began in the
early fourth century with an incipiently Christian Roman Empire and
ended three hundred years later in a world of thoroughly
Christianised kingdoms.
Encounters with wildlife are more accessible than ever, with a
bewildering array of adventures on offer. This inspiring guide
presents a range of ideas, from meeting the world's iconic wildlife
to more unusual encounters, highlighting the best and the most
ethical options. With nearly 20 years' experience travelling the
globe, Ian Wood picks his favourite animal hot spots, from tracking
mountain gorillas to kayaking with alligators in the Everglades;
from being up close with elephants on a walking safari to
snorkelling with whale sharks and climbing in search of condors.
Pointers on how best to encounter each animal, what to see when and
where, and what else you might see along the way, help you plan the
journey of a lifetime.
The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and
the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period
central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often
been drawn into a series of discourses that are more concerned with
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries than with the
distant past. In The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages, Ian
Wood explores how Western Europeans have looked back to the Middle
Ages to discover their origins and the origins of their society.
Using historical records and writings about the Fall of Rome and
the Early Middle Ages, Wood reveals how these influenced modern
Europe and the way in which the continent thought about itself. He
asks, and answers, the important question: why is early-medieval
history, or indeed any pre-modern history, important? This volume
promises to add to the debate on the significance of medieval
history in the modern world.
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Betahuman (Paperback)
Sean Patella-Buckley; Ian Wood
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R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne from c.494 to c.518, is
known for his poetic works, but his Latin prose style has led to
some neglect of his letters. This first complete translation of the
letters into English gives access to an important source for the
history of the Burgundian Kingdom in the early sixth century.
Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages is a collection of essays
presented to John Taylor, former Life Fellow and medieval scholar
at the University of Leeds. The essays in the volume have two clear
foci, also those of John Taylor's own work: the study of
history-writing in the middle ages and the late medieval church.
With contributions key scholars on topics such as the hagiography
of Saint-Wandrille, Swein Forkbeard and the historians, personal
seals in 13th-century England, women in the Plumpton Correspondence
and medievalism in counter-reformation Sicily, this volume is a
rich and varied collection of medieval scholarship and a fitting
tribute to Taylor's work from his friends and colleagues.
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