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Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching
empowers students by providing them with the conceptual and
methodological tools to investigate the period. Throughout the
book, major research questions and historiographical debates are
identified and guidance is given on how to engage with and evaluate
key documentary sources as well as artistic and archaeological
evidence. The book's aim is to engender confidence in creative and
independent historical thought. This second edition has been fully
revised and expanded and now includes coverage of both Islamic and
Byzantine history, surveying and critically examining the often
radically different scholarly interpretations relating to them.
Also new to this edition is an extensively updated and closely
integrated companion website, which has been carefully designed to
provide practical guidance to teachers and students, offering a
wealth of reference materials and aids to mastering the period, and
lighting the way for further exploration of written and non-written
sources. Accessibly written and containing over 70 carefully
selected maps and images, Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 is an
essential resource for students studying this period for the first
time, as well as an invaluable aid to university teachers devising
and delivering courses and modules on the period.
This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies
and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia.
It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and
includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers
and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of
subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state
violence, new media and climate change. The 'Melanesian world'
assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in
the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways
in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand
human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a
valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching
empowers students by providing them with the conceptual and
methodological tools to investigate the period. Throughout the
book, major research questions and historiographical debates are
identified and guidance is given on how to engage with and evaluate
key documentary sources as well as artistic and archaeological
evidence. The book's aim is to engender confidence in creative and
independent historical thought. This second edition has been fully
revised and expanded and now includes coverage of both Islamic and
Byzantine history, surveying and critically examining the often
radically different scholarly interpretations relating to them.
Also new to this edition is an extensively updated and closely
integrated companion website, which has been carefully designed to
provide practical guidance to teachers and students, offering a
wealth of reference materials and aids to mastering the period, and
lighting the way for further exploration of written and non-written
sources. Accessibly written and containing over 70 carefully
selected maps and images, Early Medieval Europe 300-1050 is an
essential resource for students studying this period for the first
time, as well as an invaluable aid to university teachers devising
and delivering courses and modules on the period.
Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring
the importance of bishops' palaces for social and political
history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology.
It is the first book-length study of such sites since Michael
Thompson's Medieval Bishops' Houses (1998), and the first work ever
to adopt such a wide-ranging approach to them in terms of themes
and geographical and chronological range. Including contributions
from the late Antique period through to the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, it deals with bishops' residences in England,
Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, France, and Italy. It is
structured in three sections: design and function, which considers
how bishops' palaces and houses differed from the palaces and
houses of secular magnates, in their layout, design, furnishings,
and functions; landscape and urban context, which considers the
relationship between bishops' palaces and houses and their
political and cultural context, the landscapes and towns or cities
in which they were set, and the parks, forests, and towns that were
planned and designed around them; and architectural form, which
considers the extent of shared features between bishops' palaces
and houses, and their relationship to the houses of other Church
potentates and to the houses of secular magnates.
This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies
and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia.
It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and
includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers
and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of
subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state
violence, new media and climate change. The 'Melanesian world'
assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in
the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways
in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand
human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a
valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
First modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a
cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution. The importance of
the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the
eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition,
the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the
Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation
and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary,
William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to
previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed
commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against
other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and
its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the
cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those
described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light
on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate
understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices
contains a full edition of the related text which describes the
windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever
edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the
descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to
the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder
(1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving
manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form ofa paper roll. The
volume is completed by a comprehensive index.
All organisations need to respond to the challenges within today's
highly competitive global economy. Business analysts are at the
forefront of these responses, enabling the development of
practical, creative and financially sound solutions that address
business problems and grasp new opportunities. The fourth edition
of this bestselling publication provides comprehensive guidance for
business analysts, encompassing the essential concepts, frameworks
and techniques needed to provide professional business analysis
services. Key topics covered include the strategic context,
investigating business situations, managing stakeholders, improving
processes and defining requirements. New topics in this edition
include the service view of business analysis, the strategic
context and enterprise architecture, customer experience analysis
and design thinking.
The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of
kings, emperors, and popes--through the places that these rulers
created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy
places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all
of Europe from the first to the sixteenth centuries--from Prague
and Seville to Palermo and the Oslo Fjord--David Rollason examines
how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages
were. Rollason draws on the latest research in a range of
disciplines--principally archaeology, and the histories of art,
architecture, and landscape, as well as historical and literary
studies--to investigate what the power of rulers consisted of. Was
their power based on impersonal bureaucratic mechanisms, on
personal relationships between rulers and subjects, or on strong
beliefs in the quasi-divine status of rulers? How did impressive
edifices support and emphasize these practices of power? Rollason
takes readers to spectacular sites, including the remarkable
remains of the tenth-century city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba,
the remarkably preserved palace-church of the emperor Charlemagne
in Aachen, and the soaring shrine-church of the Saint-Chapelle of
King Louis IX. Giving readers the tools to analyze rulers' palaces,
landscapes, cities, and holy places, The Power of Place offers a
fascinating perspective on the development of power throughout
history.
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a prince who lived in a beautiful castle. He was rich and handsome,
but he was not kind. An enchantress changed him into a beast. To
break the spell, he must learn to love and to be loved. One day,
Belle, a smart, brave young woman, comes to the castle. Can she
break the spell? Can she love the Beast? * Audiobook accessed via
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Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have separately been
the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an
integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity, creating and
reinforcing the relationships which kept a community together, as
well as delineating status and even symbolising society as a whole.
They have, however, rarely been studied together despite the
prevalence of clothing gifts in many ancient texts. This book
addresses a gap in scholarship by focusing on gifts of elite male
clothing in late antique literature in order to show that, when
they appeared in texts, these items were not only functioning in an
historical or 'real-life' sphere but also as a literary space
within which authors could discuss ideas of social relationships
and authority. This book suggests that authors used items which
usually formed part of the costume of authority of the period - the
trabea of the consul, the chlamys of the imperial court and the
emperor, and the pallium of the Christian bishops - to 'over-write'
wearers and donors as confident figures of 'official' authority
when this may have been open to doubt.
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a
real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading
material for younger learners. This reader is based on the hit 2016
animated movie Trolls. After the Bergens invade Troll Village,
Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious Branch
set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Their mission is full
of adventure and mishaps, as this mismatched duo try to tolerate
each other long enough to get the job done.
Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book
offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering
taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon
offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance
emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it
appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding
collective life, as these means by which actors strive to
accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends
conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers
to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.
First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant
manuscript from medieval England. The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS
Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written
in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This liber vitae is
one of only three such compilations surviving frommedieval England,
the others being the Durham liber vitae (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A
vii) and the New Minster liber vitae (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at
Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and
continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the
names of confraters of the abbey, that is of those people who,
through their friendship and gifts to the abbey, were included in
the daily prayers of the monks of the community. The present volume
is the first complete edition of this important text, and includes
a complete facsimile of the pages. It also contains studies of the
manuscript context, of the names included and, where possible, the
identities and relationship to the abbey of those named, many of
whom are also entered in the priory cartulary known as the Red Book
of Thorney. The introduction provides a wide-ranging historical
context for the production of the liber vitae. Lynda Rollason is
Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Durham
University. With contributions from Richard Gameson, John Insley
and Katharine Keats-Rohan.
Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring
the importance of bishops' palaces for social and political
history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology.
It is the first book-length study of such sites since Michael
Thompson's Medieval Bishops' Houses (1998), and the first work ever
to adopt such a wide-ranging approach to them in terms of themes
and geographical and chronological range. Including contributions
from the late Antique period through to the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, it deals with bishops' residences in England,
Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, France, and Italy. It is
structured in three sections: design and function, which considers
how bishops' palaces and houses differed from the palaces and
houses of secular magnates, in their layout, design, furnishings,
and functions; landscape and urban context, which considers the
relationship between bishops' palaces and houses and their
political and cultural context, the landscapes and towns or cities
in which they were set, and the parks, forests, and towns that were
planned and designed around them; and architectural form, which
considers the extent of shared features between bishops' palaces
and houses, and their relationship to the houses of other Church
potentates and to the houses of secular magnates.
Impressive... for many readers of these papers their cumulative
effect will be very great indeed... Admirable collaborative volume.
JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY Specialists explore the influence
of twelfth-centuryDurham, in ecclesiastical affairs, Border
politics, architecture, art, and religious and literary culture.
Impressive... the cumulative effect [of these papers] is very great
indeed. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY This study of
Anglo-Norman Durham's history, architecture, art, and religious and
literary culture covers much ground, including the Cathedral Priory
and its relationship to monastic reform; the careers of the prince
bishops; studies of the spectacular castle; the relationship
between Durham and the Scottish kings; the architecture of the
cathedral; and Durham manuscripts and texts, featuring historical
compilations and the remarkable Old English poem De situ Dunelmi.
Contributors: DONALD MATTHEW, JULIA BARROW, JANET BURTON, MERYL
FOSTER,VICTORIA TUDOR, MICHAEL GULLICK, ALAN PIPER, DAVID BATES,
MARK PHILPOTT, ERIC CAMBRIDGE, MALCOLM THURLBY, J. PHILIP McALEER,
S.A. HARRISON, JOHN CROOK, THOMAS E. RUSSO, E.C. FERNIE, WILLIAM
AIRD, J.O. PRESTWICH, G.W.S. BARROW, VALERIE WALL, PAUL DALTON,
ALAN YOUNG, HENRY SUMMERSON, MARTIN ALLEN, P.D.A. HARVEY, MARTIN
LEYLAND, M.W. THOMPSON, BERNARD MEEHAN, CHRISTOPHER NORTON, ANNE
LAWRENCE, DOMINIC MARNER, DAVID HOWLETT
Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have separately been
the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an
integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity, creating and
reinforcing the relationships which kept a community together, as
well as delineating status and even symbolising society as a whole.
They have, however, rarely been studied together despite the
prevalence of clothing gifts in many ancient texts. This book
addresses a gap in scholarship by focusing on gifts of elite male
clothing in late antique literature in order to show that, when
they appeared in texts, these items were not only functioning in an
historical or 'real-life' sphere but also as a literary space
within which authors could discuss ideas of social relationships
and authority. This book suggests that authors used items which
usually formed part of the costume of authority of the period - the
trabea of the consul, the chlamys of the imperial court and the
emperor, and the pallium of the Christian bishops - to 'over-write'
wearers and donors as confident figures of 'official' authority
when this may have been open to doubt.
The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms,
which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work
undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a
cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to
trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural
reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or
worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific
Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific
would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the
futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to
achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From
Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to
reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this
volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives
with the future in mind.
Investigation of lives of the saint, Lindisfarneand its scriptorium
and Gospels, and the treasures of Cuthbert's coffin.Very fine
collection of essays...a rich feast of scholarship with many
discoveries and new interpretations of greatest value for
Anglo-Saxon history. SPECULUM `Very fine collection of essays - a
rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new
interpretations of greatest value for Anglo-Saxon history.'
SPECULUM St Cuthbert is known to many as the the saintly bishop of
Holy Island inthe 7th century, but he was also a figure of great
political and territorial power. The book is divided into four
sections, each dealing with different aspects of Cuthbert and his
milieu. Among the topics investigatedare the early Livesof the
Saint, two by Bede himself, and his cult; Lindisfarne, its
scriptorium and of course the famous Gospels; the sumptuous
treasures gathered round the coffin, such as a portable altar and
elaborately-worked silks, many of which are still preserved at
Durham; and St Cuthbert's community at Chester-le-Street and
Durham. Contributors: J. CAMPBELL, CLARE STANCLIFFE, MICHAEL
HERITY, BENEDICTA WARD SLG, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, WALTER BERSCHIN, ALAN
THACKER, DEIRDRE O'SULLIVAN, CHRISTOPHER D. VEREY, MICHELLE P.
BROWN, JANET BACKHOUSE, R. BRUCE-MITFORD, DAIBHI D CRDINN, NANCY
NETZER, ROSEMARY CRAMP, RICHARD N. BAILEY, J.M. CRONYN, C.V. HORIE,
R.I. PAGE, JOHN HIGGITT, ELIZABETH COASTWORTH, HERO GRANGER-TAYLOR,
CLARE HIGGINS, ANNA MUTHESIUS, ERIC CAMBRIDGE, GERALD BONNER,
LUISELLA SIMPSON, DAVID ROLLASON, DAVID HALL, A.J. PIPER, VICTORIA
TUDOR
This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of
Northumbria. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political,
social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the
Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the
Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful
kingdoms of early medieval England, and those which led to its
disintegration and its replacement by political structures of
northern England and southern Scotland. The story is set in a wider
European context so that the history of Northumbria is seen as
paradigmatic for an understanding of state formation and religious
and cultural change in the early medieval world. Full attention is
given to archaeological and art-historical material, and the extent
to which narrative sources were shaped by sectional interests and
created imagined visions of the past.
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original
fiction adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for
teenagers. London is a special city with a fascinating past and an
exciting present. Read about Shakespeare and shopping, the River
Thames and red buses, the Great Fire of 1666 and the Olympics of
2012, haunted Tube stations and bloody murders. Meet Londoners past
and present and find out how London started and what drives this
amazing city today. This paperback is in British English. Download
the complete audio recording of this title and additional classroom
resources at cambridge.org/experience-readers Cambridge Experience
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