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The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of
handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the
Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through
documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE
to the present, individual lives and relationships are illuminated
through the writing that has been left behind. We see Elizabeth I
attempting to win over her new stepmother, Alan Bennett working out
the character of Mr Toad, Henry Moore advising soap and water for
cleaning sculpture and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin balancing childcare
with discovering the structure of penicillin. Here you will find
letters, first drafts, autograph albums and hastily scribbled
notes, fair copies, marked-up proofs and doodles. Divided into
themed categories, the entries feature novelists Jane Austen,
Charlotte BrontĂŤ, Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler;
scientists Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein;
reformers Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Mohandas
Gandhi; and explorers Walter Ralegh, T.E. Lawrence and Patrick
Leigh Fermor among many others. Each of these extraordinary people
has passed on a manuscript or document with a fascinating story to
tell.
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Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox
Joel Chandler Harris; Illustrated by Lesley Smith
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R132
Discovery Miles 1 320
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Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be
able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant
muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The
wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life
... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in
characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family
and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption.
Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life
of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we
have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles,
fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval
historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the
historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The
aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably
one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed
on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a
mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be
acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the
dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history,
beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice
served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their
situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame,
three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and
institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of
the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century
Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of
historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students
of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises
from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to
the central topic.
Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be
able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant
muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The
wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life
... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in
characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family
and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption.
Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life
of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we
have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles,
fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval
historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the
historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The
aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably
one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed
on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a
mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be
acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the
dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history,
beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice
served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their
situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame,
three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and
institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of
the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century
Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of
historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students
of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises
from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to
the central topic.
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study `From the Ordeal to
Confession', delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
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Henny Penny (Paperback)
Sophie Giles; Illustrated by Lesley Smith
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R135
Discovery Miles 1 350
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The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop
William of Auvergne. Â Today, William of Auvergne
(1180?â1249) is remembered for his scholarship about the
afterlife as well as the so-called Trial of the Talmud. But the
medieval bishop of Paris also left behind nearly 600 sermons
delivered to all manner of peopleâfrom the royal court to the
poorest in his care. In Fragments of a World, Lesley Smith uses
these sermons to paint a vivid picture of this extraordinary
cleric, his parishioners, and their bustling world. The first
modern biography of the influential teacher, bishop, and
theologian, Fragments of a World casts a new image of William of
Auvergne for our timesâdeeply attuned to both the spiritual and
material needs of an ever-changing populace in the medieval city.
Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious
life; essays explore literary evidence. Penance, confession and
their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important
topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a
wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's
background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of
the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early
medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the
ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed
women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing
on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for
demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study "From the Ordeal to
Confession", delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the
appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's
contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of
the spiritual conseil and penitence. PETER BILLER is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas
Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY,
LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons,
authors, readers, and characters in secular literature. This second
volume of proceedings from the `Women and the Book' conference,
held at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1993, brings together fifteen
papers dealing with women's experience in the secular literary
world. It covers the whole variety of roles women might take, as
patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature;
encompassed in its range are well-known characters, real and
fictional, such as Christine de Pisan and the Wife of Bath, and the
more obscure but no less fascinating topic of women in Chinese
medieval court poetry. Like its predecessor Women, the Book, and
the Godly(Brewer, 1995), this volume illuminates the world of
medieval women with carefulscholarship and attention to sources,
producing new readings and new materials which shed fresh light on
an increasingly important field of study. Contributors: PATRICIA
SKINNER, PHILIP E. BENNETT, JENNIFER GOODMAN, CHARITY
CANNON-WILLARD, BENJAMIN SEMPLE, ANNE BIRRELL, JEANETTE BEER, MARK
BALFOUR, CAROL HARVEY, HEATHER ARDEN, KAREN JAMBECK, JULIA BOFFEY,
JENNIFER SUMMIT, MARGARITA STOCKER
Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from
archive, manuscipt and early printed sources. Taking a variety of
critical approaches, the papers in Women, the Book and the
Godlyanalyse the subject of women and religion, illustrating
clearly the wealth of previously untapped material on this topic,
whether in archive, manuscript or early printed source. The volume
examines writing by women, writing which excludes women, and
writing which ignores them, as well as women readers, women
patrons, and women who were read to. Archaeology, canon and civil
law, and trial depositions are all represented. The common
determinants of marital and social status are, of course, explored,
but so also are the problems of women and language, women's various
roles as creators, recipients, and objects, and women's positions
on the sliding scale between the orthodox, the reforming, and the
heterodox churches. The essays thus represent something of the
variety and range of work being done on medieval women today.
Contributors: ALCUIN BLAMIRES, JACQUELINE MURRAY, WYBREN SCHEEPSMA,
ANNEM. DUTTON, ROSALYNN VOADEN, GRACE JANTZEN, ELIZABETH A.
ANDERSEN, THOMAS LUONGO, BENEDICTA WARD, GOPA ROY, GEORGES WHALEN,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, HELENPHILLIPS, SHANNON McSHEFFREY, PETER
BILLER
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