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Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 - Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow (Hardcover): David Bates, Julia Crick, Sarah Hamilton Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250 - Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow (Hardcover)
David Bates, Julia Crick, Sarah Hamilton; Contributions by Barbara Yorke, Christopher J. Holdsworth, …
R2,987 Discovery Miles 29 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD. Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and from individual to the collective biographies,this collection investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK and DrSARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: JANET L. NELSON, ROBIN FLEMING, BARBARA YORKE, RICHARD ABELS, SIMON KEYNES, PAULINE STAFFORD, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, DAVID BATES,JANE MARTINDALE, CHRISTOPHER HOLDSWORTH, LINDY GRANT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, EDMUND KING, JOHN GILLINGHAM, DAVID CROUCH, NICHOLAS VINCENT

Charters of St Albans (Hardcover, New): Julia Crick Charters of St Albans (Hardcover, New)
Julia Crick
R2,348 Discovery Miles 23 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Seat of the oldest saint's cult in Britain, St Albans has a remarkable claim to continuity of cult from Romano-British times. The recent discovery of previously unknown charters, most of them in the vernacular, has provided significant new information about the history of this important medieval monastery and its region.
These texts are presented here, mostly for the first time, together with new editions of all other known charters relating to the house, including three single-sheet originals, with full historical commentaries and translations of vernacular charters. An extended introduction offers a reassessment of the history of St Albans and its region in the early Middle Ages and, in particular, an analysis of the workings of the monastery, its economy, and its relationship with its locality in the century before the Norman Conquest. Particular attention is devoted to the management of the assets of the house, both material (an assessment of their estates and their management) and symbolic (involvement with forgery and enhancement of their documentary record).

Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth III - A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts (Hardcover): Julia Crick Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth III - A Summary Catalogue of the Manuscripts (Hardcover)
Julia Crick
R2,978 Discovery Miles 29 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fine research tool which has so many applications.' SPECULUM

The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (Hardcover, New): Julia Crick, Alexandra Walsham The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (Hardcover, New)
Julia Crick, Alexandra Walsham
R2,903 Discovery Miles 29 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval and early modern Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and politics. They assess ascribal activity both before and after the advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of these three media. In sum, this collection will help to refine the boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to represent.

Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source - The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Hardcover,... Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source - The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Hardcover, New)
J.E. Cross; Contributions by Denis Brearley, Julia Crick, Thomas N. Hall, Andy Orchard
R2,907 Discovery Miles 29 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the course of this work Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. Together with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery, in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not only into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

A Social History of England, 900-1200 (Hardcover, New): Julia Crick, Elisabeth van Houts A Social History of England, 900-1200 (Hardcover, New)
Julia Crick, Elisabeth van Houts
R2,767 Discovery Miles 27 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this formative period of English history.

A Social History of England, 900-1200 (Paperback): Julia Crick, Elisabeth van Houts A Social History of England, 900-1200 (Paperback)
Julia Crick, Elisabeth van Houts
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this formative period of English history.

The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (Paperback): Julia Crick, Alexandra Walsham The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (Paperback)
Julia Crick, Alexandra Walsham
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval and early modern Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and politics. They assess scribal activity both before and after the advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of these three media. In sum, this collection helped to refine the boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to represent.

Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source - The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Paperback):... Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source - The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Paperback)
J.E. Cross; Contributions by Denis Brearley, Julia Crick, Thomas N. Hall, Andy Orchard
R1,698 Discovery Miles 16 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not simply into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

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