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The Deeds of Philip Augustus - An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" (Hardcover): Rigord The Deeds of Philip Augustus - An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" (Hardcover)
Rigord; Translated by Larry F Field; Edited by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Sean L. Field; Foreword by Paul R. Hyams
R2,904 R2,645 Discovery Miles 26 450 Save R259 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King Philip II of France (r. 1180–1223), a critical source about this pivotal figure in the development of the medieval French monarchy and an intriguing window into many aspects of the broader twelfth century. Rigord wrote his chronicle in Latin, covering the first two-thirds of Philip II's reign, including such events as Philip's fateful expulsion of the Jews in 1182, his departure on the Third Crusade in 1190, his governmental innovations, and his victory over King John of England. As Philip II transformed French royal power, Rigord transformed contemporary writing about the nature of that power. Presented in a lively and readable translation framed by an introduction that contextualizes the text and accompanied by annotations, maps, and illustrations, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes one of the most important documents of twelfth-century France available to a wide new readership.

To Govern Is to Serve - An Essay on Medieval Democracy (Hardcover): Jacques Dalarun To Govern Is to Serve - An Essay on Medieval Democracy (Hardcover)
Jacques Dalarun; Translated by Sean L. Field; Foreword by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Anne E. Lester
R2,904 R2,645 Discovery Miles 26 450 Save R259 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service. Dalarun undertakes meticulous textual analysis and historical research into twelfth and thirteenth-century religious movements—from Fontevraud and the Paraclete of Abelard and Heloise through St. Dominic and St. Francis—that sought their superiors from among the less exalted members of their communities to chart how these experiments prefigured certain aspects of modern democracies, those allowing individuals to find their way forward as part of a collective. Wide ranging and deeply original,To Govern Is to Serve highlights the history of the reciprocal bonds of service and humility that underpin increasingly fragile democracies in the twenty-first century.

The Deeds of Philip Augustus - An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" (Paperback): Rigord The Deeds of Philip Augustus - An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" (Paperback)
Rigord; Translated by Larry F Field; Edited by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Sean L. Field; Foreword by Paul R. Hyams
R615 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R66 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223), a critical source about this pivotal figure in the development of the medieval French monarchy and an intriguing window into many aspects of the broader twelfth century. Rigord wrote his chronicle in Latin, covering the first two-thirds of Philip II's reign, including such events as Philip's fateful expulsion of the Jews in 1182, his departure on the Third Crusade in 1190, his governmental innovations, and his victory over King John of England. As Philip II transformed French royal power, Rigord transformed contemporary writing about the nature of that power. Presented in a lively and readable translation framed by an introduction that contextualizes the text and accompanied by annotations, maps, and illustrations, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes one of the most important documents of twelfth-century France available to a wide new readership.

Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Hardcover): M. Cecilia... Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Hardcover)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R2,805 R2,524 Discovery Miles 25 240 Save R281 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Louis IX, king of France from 1226 to 1270 and twice crusader, was canonized in 1297. He was the last king canonized during the medieval period, and was both one of the most important saints and one of the most important kings of the later Middle Ages. In Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin presents six previously untranslated texts that informed medieval views of St. Louis IX: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and proper mass in his honor-the most commonly used liturgical texts composed for Louis' feast day-which were widely copied, read, and disseminated in the Middle Ages. Gaposchkin's aim is to present to a diverse readership the Louis as he was known and experienced in the Middle Ages: a saint celebrated by the faithful for his virtue and his deeds. She offers for the first time to English readers a typical hagiographical view of Saint Louis, one in counterbalance to that set forth in Jean of Joinville's Life of Saint Louis. Although Joinville's Life has dominated our views of Louis, Joinville's famous account was virtually unknown beyond the French royal court in the Middle Ages and was not printed until the sixteenth century. His portrayal of Louis as an individual and deeply charismatic personality is remarkable, but it is fundamentally unrepresentative of the medieval understanding of Louis. The texts that Gaposchkin translates give immediate access to the reasons why medieval Christians took Louis to be a saint; the texts, and the image of Saint Louis presented in them, she argues, must be understood within the context of the developing history of sanctity and sainthood at the end of the Middle Ages.

To Govern Is to Serve - An Essay on Medieval Democracy (Paperback): Jacques Dalarun To Govern Is to Serve - An Essay on Medieval Democracy (Paperback)
Jacques Dalarun; Translated by Sean L. Field; Foreword by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Anne E. Lester
R692 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service. Dalarun undertakes meticulous textual analysis and historical research into twelfth and thirteenth-century religious movements—from Fontevraud and the Paraclete of Abelard and Heloise through St. Dominic and St. Francis—that sought their superiors from among the less exalted members of their communities to chart how these experiments prefigured certain aspects of modern democracies, those allowing individuals to find their way forward as part of a collective. Wide ranging and deeply original,To Govern Is to Serve highlights the history of the reciprocal bonds of service and humility that underpin increasingly fragile democracies in the twenty-first century.

Invisible Weapons - Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology (Paperback): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Invisible Weapons - Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology (Paperback)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R773 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R64 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.

The Making of Saint Louis - Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin The Making of Saint Louis - Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R704 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R129 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (r. 1226 1270) was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ideological program that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation of France and underscored Capetian claims of sacred kingship.

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to the monarch's canonization and the consolidation and spread of his cult. Differing political and religious ideals produced competing images of the sanctity of Louis in late-thirteenth and early fourteenth-century France. Drawing on hagiography, sermons, and liturgical evidence the latter a rich but little-explored historical source Gaposchkin shows how various groups (including Dominicans, Cistercians, and Franciscans) and individuals (such as Philip the Fair and Joinville) used commemoration of the saint-king to sanctify their own politics and notions of identity and religious virtue. Louis' cult was disseminated to a wider, nonelite public through sermons in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and then revived by the Bourbon kings in the seventeenth century.

In deepening our knowledge of this royal saint, this elegantly written book opens the curtain on the religious sensibilities and secular politics of a transitional period in European history."

Invisible Weapons - Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology (Hardcover): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Invisible Weapons - Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology (Hardcover)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R1,726 R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Save R120 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Weapons, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin focuses on the ways in which Latin Christians communicated their ideas and aspirations for crusade to God through liturgy, how public worship was deployed, and how prayers and masses absorbed the ideals and priorities of crusading. Placing religious texts and practices within the larger narrative of crusading, Gaposchkin offers a new understanding of a crucial facet in the culture of holy war.

Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Paperback): M. Cecilia... Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings - Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France (Paperback)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R1,231 R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Save R406 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Louis IX, king of France from 1226 to 1270 and twice crusader, was canonized in 1297. He was the last king canonized during the medieval period, and was both one of the most important saints and one of the most important kings of the later Middle Ages. In Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin presents six previously untranslated texts that informed medieval views of St. Louis IX: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and proper mass in his honor—the most commonly used liturgical texts composed for Louis’ feast day—which were widely copied, read, and disseminated in the Middle Ages. Gaposchkin’s aim is to present to a diverse readership the Louis as he was known and experienced in the Middle Ages: a saint celebrated by the faithful for his virtue and his deeds. She offers for the first time to English readers a typical hagiographical view of Saint Louis, one in counterbalance to that set forth in Jean of Joinville’s Life of Saint Louis. Although Joinville’s Life has dominated our views of Louis, Joinville’s famous account was virtually unknown beyond the French royal court in the Middle Ages and was not printed until the sixteenth century. His portrayal of Louis as an individual and deeply charismatic personality is remarkable, but it is fundamentally unrepresentative of the medieval understanding of Louis. The texts that Gaposchkin translates give immediate access to the reasons why medieval Christians took Louis to be a saint; the texts, and the image of Saint Louis presented in them, she argues, must be understood within the context of the developing history of sanctity and sainthood at the end of the Middle Ages.

The Making of Saint Louis - Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover, 2 Ed): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin The Making of Saint Louis - Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Hardcover, 2 Ed)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
R1,293 R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Save R277 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (r. 1226 1270) was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ideological program that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation of France and underscored Capetian claims of sacred kingship.

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to the monarch's canonization and the consolidation and spread of his cult. Differing political and religious ideals produced competing images of the sanctity of Louis in late-thirteenth and early fourteenth-century France. Drawing on hagiography, sermons, and liturgical evidence the latter a rich but little-explored historical source Gaposchkin shows how various groups (including Dominicans, Cistercians, and Franciscans) and individuals (such as Philip the Fair and Joinville) used commemoration of the saint-king to sanctify their own politics and notions of identity and religious virtue. Louis' cult was disseminated to a wider, nonelite public through sermons in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and then revived by the Bourbon kings in the seventeenth century.

In deepening our knowledge of this royal saint, this elegantly written book opens the curtain on the religious sensibilities and secular politics of a transitional period in European history."

The Sanctity of Louis IX - Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres (Paperback): M. Cecilia... The Sanctity of Louis IX - Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres (Paperback)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Sean L. Field; Translated by Larry F Field
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures of early French history and the High Middle Ages. In The Sanctity of Louis IX, Larry F. Field offers the first English-language translations of two of the earliest and most important accounts of the king s life: one composed by Geoffrey of Beaulieu, the king s long-time Dominican confessor, and the other by William of Chartres, a secular clerk in Louis s household who eventually joined the Dominican Order himself. Written shortly after Louis s death, these accounts are rich with details and firsthand observations absent from other works, most notably Jean of Joinville s well-known narrative

The introduction by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Sean L. Field provides background information on Louis IX and his two biographers, analysis of the historical context of the 1270s, and a thematic introduction to the texts. An appendix traces their manuscript and early printing histories. The Sanctity of Louis IX also features translations of Boniface VIII s bull canonizing Louis and of three shorter letters associated with the earliest push for his canonization. It also contains the most detailed analysis of these texts, their authors, and their manuscript traditions currently available."

The Sanctity of Louis IX - Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres (Hardcover, New): M.... The Sanctity of Louis IX - Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres (Hardcover, New)
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Sean L. Field; Translated by Larry F Field
R3,599 Discovery Miles 35 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures of early French history and the High Middle Ages. In The Sanctity of Louis IX, Larry F. Field offers the first English-language translations of two of the earliest and most important accounts of the king s life: one composed by Geoffrey of Beaulieu, the king s long-time Dominican confessor, and the other by William of Chartres, a secular clerk in Louis s household who eventually joined the Dominican Order himself. Written shortly after Louis s death, these accounts are rich with details and firsthand observations absent from other works, most notably Jean of Joinville s well-known narrative

The introduction by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Sean L. Field provides background information on Louis IX and his two biographers, analysis of the historical context of the 1270s, and a thematic introduction to the texts. An appendix traces their manuscript and early printing histories. The Sanctity of Louis IX also features translations of Boniface VIII s bull canonizing Louis and of three shorter letters associated with the earliest push for his canonization. It also contains the most detailed analysis of these texts, their authors, and their manuscript traditions currently available."

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