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This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together
with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented
in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato",
enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the
evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has
been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully
accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An
introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and
assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical
and literary context. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early
fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most
important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her
Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely
studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman,
their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many
aspects of both her life and thought remain enigmatic. This
exciting new collection offers a comprehensive, accessible coverage
of the key aspects of debate surrounding Julian. It places the
author within a wide range of contemporary literary, social,
historical and religious contexts, and also provides a wealth of
new insightsinto manuscript traditions, perspectives on her writing
and ways of interpreting it, building on the work of many of the
most active and influential researchers within Julian studies, and
including the fruits of the most recent,ground-breaking findings.
It will therefore be a vital companion for all of Julian's readers
in the twenty-first century. Dr Liz Herbert McAvoy is Senior
Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea
University. Contributors: Denise M. Baker, Alexandra Barratt,
Marleen Cre, Elisabeth Dutton,Vincent Gillespie, Cate Gunn, Ena
Jenkins, E.A. Jones, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Laura Saetveit Miles, Kim
M. Philips, Elizabeth Robertson,Sarah Salih, Annie Sutherland,
Diane Watt, Barry Windeatt.
Fully-annotated edition of English mystic Margery Kempe's life and
divine revelations [dated 1436-8]. [This edition previously
published by Longman.] The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest
surviving autobiography in English (dated 1436-8), is a unique
account of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of a
fifteenth-century Norfolk housewife and mother, pilgrim,prophet and
visionary; it is one of the most compelling and significant English
texts of the middle ages. This volume presents the original text in
accessible form for modern readers, with on-page glossing and a
glossary of common words. It is accompanied by on-page annotation
of and commentary on the Book, bringing together scholarship on
Kempe and setting her life in the social, political and spiritual
context of her time. An introduction provides information on and
context for the further interpretation of the text, and the volume
is completed by a chronology of Kempe's life. [This edition
previously published by Longman.] Professor BARRY WINDEATT is a
Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together
with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented
in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato",
enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the
evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has
been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully
accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An
introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and
assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.
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St. Rose of Lima (Paperback)
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The story for children 10 and up of St. Rose of Lima, who became a
hermit in her own home--rather than go to a convent--and how she
became a great Saint. At her confirmation in 1597, she took the
name of Rose, because, when an infant, her face had been seen
transformed by a mystical rose. As a child she was remarkable for a
great reverence, and pronounced love, for all things relating to
God. Impr. 132 pgs 13 Illus, PB
Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle
English prose. The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and
authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and
genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the
subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary,
history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with
bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of
the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group;
Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich;
Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald
Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances,
saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historicalprose,
anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms
of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of
Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA
MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A.
WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT
GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN
COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD
BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Shows how St. Thomas was big, quiet and slow to speak, thus being
called the \"Dumb Ox\" by fellow students. Shows for children 10
and up how this \"Dumb Ox\" became the greatest teacher in the
history of the Church. Impr. 81 pgs 16 Illus, PB
New approaches to religious texts from the Middle Ages,
highlighting their diversity and sophistication. From the great age
of pastoral expansion in the thirteenth century, to the
revolutionary paroxysms of the English Reformation, England's
religious writings, cultures, and practices defy easy analysis. The
diverse currents of practice and belief which interact and conflict
across the period - orthodox and heterodox, popular and learned,
mystical and pragmatic, conservative and reforming - are defined on
the one hand by differences as nuanced as the apophatic and
cataphatic approaches to understanding the divine, and on the other
by developments as profound and concrete as the persecution of
declared heretics, the banning and destruction of books, and the
emergence of printing. The essays presented in this volume respond
to and build upon the hugely influential work of Vincent Gillespie
in these fields, offering a variety of approaches, spiritual and
literary, bibliographical and critical, across the Middle Ages to
the Protestant Reformation and beyond. Topics addressed include the
Wycliffite Bible; the Assumption of the Virgin as represented in
medieval English culture; Nicholas Love and Reginald Pecock; and
the survival of latemedieval piety in early modern England. LAURA
ASHE is Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow,
Worcester College, Oxford; RALPH HANNA is Professor of Palaeography
(emeritus), Keble College, Oxford. Contributors: Tamara Atkin,
James Carley, Alexandra da Costa, Anne Hudson, Ian Johnson, Daniel
Orton, Susan Powell, Denis Renevey, Michael G. Sargent, Annie
Sutherland, Nicholas Watson, Barry Windeatt.
\"Sister, it couldn\'t have happened \" declared the priest. \"It
was all a dream, like the other time.\" But Sister Catherine was
sure she had truly seen Our Lady. And then Our Lady came again
Would the priest ever believe her--and would he ever have the
Medals made, as Our Lady has asked? Here are the answers and the
wonderful story of what happened when the Blessed Virgin Mary came
to St. Catherine Laboure.
New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation
of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature
of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the
cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and
reimaginings, including its contexts and engagements with other
discourses and forms, as they were "rewritten" during the Middle
Ages and beyond. Ranging across popular, anonymous English and
courtly romances, and taking in the works of Chaucer and Arthurian
romance (rarely treated together), in connection with continental
sources and analogues, the chapters probe this fluid and creative
genre to ask just how comfortable, and how flexible, are its nature
and aims? How were Middle English romances rewritten toaccommodate
contemporary concerns and generic expectations? What can attention
to narrative techniques and conventional gestures reveal about the
reassurances romances offer, or the questions they ask? How do
romances' central concerns with secular ideals and conduct
intersect with spiritual priorities? And how are romances
transformed or received in later periods? The volume is also a
tribute to the significance and influence of the work of Professor
Helen Cooper on romance. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of
English Studies at Durham University; Megan G. Leitch is Senior
Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; Corinne
Saunders is Professor of English andCo-Director of the Centre for
Medical Humanities at Durham University. Contributors: Elizabeth
Archibald, Julia Boffey, Christopher Cannon, Neil Cartlidge, Miriam
Edlich-Muth, A.S.G. Edwards, Marcel Elias, Megan Leitch, Andrew
Lynch, Jill Mann, Marco Nievergelt, Ad Putter, Corinne Saunders,
Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager
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Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition - Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR & SPR 2012, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-9, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012)
Georgy Gimel'farb, Edwin Hancock, Atsushi Imiya, Arjan Kuijper, Mineichi Kudo, …
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint IAPR
International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern
Recognition (SSPR 2012) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern
Recognition (SPR 2012), held in Hiroshima, Japan, in November 2012
as a satellite event of the 21st International Conference on
Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2012. The 80 revised full papers
presented together with 1 invited paper and the Pierre Devijver
award lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from more than
120 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on structural, syntactical, and statistical pattern
recognition, graph and tree methods, randomized methods and image
analysis, kernel methods in structural and syntactical pattern
recognition, applications of structural and syntactical pattern
recognition, clustering, learning, kernel methods in statistical
pattern recognition, kernel methods in statistical pattern
recognition, as well as applications of structural, syntactical,
and statistical methods.
This edition brings together for the first time key texts
representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The
texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are
supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The
book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton,
the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of
Norwich, and Margery Kempe. Shorter works are presented whole,
where possible, and accompanied by extracts from the mystics'
longer works; extracts from contemporary translations into English
are also included to illustrate the reception of European mystical
texts in later medieval England. Overall, this volume makes
accessible some of the finest writing by English contemplatives and
visionaries of the Middle Ages.
Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his
works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative
response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian'
authors and to a body of comment about his writings. This book is
the first to describe Chaucer's literary influence across a wide
range of writers and periods. It takes as its theme the variety of
responses to Chaucer or 'Chaucer Traditions', and addresses topics
of special interest arising from the effects Chaucer's work had on
subsequent writers in the three centuries leading up to Dryden.
Each essay focuses on a certain writer or literary tradition
discussing these in the context of Chaucer's work and its
influence. The result is an important collection of essays which
will be of interest to all teachers and students of Chaucer, as
well as to scholars of poetry in later periods.
\"Papa, what\'s the new baby\'s name?\" asked one of the Martin
girls.
Little Therese was \"the baby\" of the Martin family. She was also
her Papa\'s \"Little Queen.\" With her Mama, her Papa and her 4 big
sisters to love her, Therese could have turned out to be a very
spoiled little girl. And indeed, it is true that sometimes she was
cross and naughty.
But Therese had hit upon a plan: she had decided to become a
saint. To do this, she would love God every minute and would always
say, \"Yes\" to whatever He asked of her.
Would this really make Therese into a saint? Wasn\'t it too easy?
Or maybe it would sometimes be too hard? And wouldn\'t Therese
forget about her plan as she grew older?
This book tells what happened to little Therese: It shows how
Therese received a second mother when she lost her first mother,
how she was teased at school, and how she was cured of being a
crybaby. It tells about her mysterious illness, her miraculous
cure, her First Holy Communion, the terrible criminal whose soul
she won back for God, and what she decided to do when she grew up.
All in all, here is the wonderful true story of what happened when
little Therese Martin set out to become a saint.
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Multiple Classifier Systems - 5th International Workshop, MCS 2004, Cagliari, Italy, June 9-11, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Fabio Roli, Josef Kittler, Terry Windeatt
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The fusion of di?erent information sourcesis a persistent and
intriguing issue. It
hasbeenaddressedforcenturiesinvariousdisciplines,
includingpoliticalscience, probability and statistics, system
reliability assessment, computer science, and distributed detection
in communications. Early seminal work on fusion was c- ried out by
pioneers such as Laplace and von Neumann. More recently, research
activities in information fusion have focused on pattern
recognition. During the 1990s, classi?erfusionschemes,
especiallyattheso-calleddecision-level, emerged under a plethora of
di?erent names in various scienti?c communities, including machine
learning, neural networks, pattern recognition, and statistics. The
d- ferent nomenclatures introduced by these communities re?ected
their di?erent perspectives and cultural backgrounds as well as the
absence of common forums and the poor dissemination of the most
important results. In 1999, the ?rst workshop on multiple classi?er
systems was organized with the main goal of creating a common
international forum to promote the diss- ination of the results
achieved in the diverse communities and the adoption of a common
terminology, thus giving the di?erent perspectives and cultural ba-
grounds some concrete added value. After ?ve meetings of this
workshop, there is strong evidence that signi?cant steps have been
made towards this goal. - searchers from these diverse communities
successfully participated in the wo- shops, and world experts
presented surveys of the state of the art from the perspectives of
their communities to aid cross-fertilizat
The refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2003, held in Guildford, UK in June 2003. The 40 revised full papers presented with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on boosting, combination rules, multi-class methods, fusion schemes and architectures, neural network ensembles, ensemble strategies, and applications
This edition brings together for the first time key texts
representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The
texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are
supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The
book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton,
the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of
Norwich, and Margery Kempe. Shorter works are presented whole,
where possible, and accompanied by extracts from the mystics'
longer works; extracts from contemporary translations into English
are also included to illustrate the reception of European mystical
texts in later medieval England. Overall, this volume makes
accessible some of the finest writing by English contemplatives and
visionaries of the Middle Ages.
`Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the
anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE The essays collected here on the
Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both
information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of
authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with
individual sections on particularly important features within them;
gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre,
vocabulary and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section
devoted to Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and
chivalry found within it, and explores some of its later
adaptations from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Afull
bibliography completes the volume. The late DEREK BREWER was
Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge;
JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as a lecturer in the Universities of
Exeter and Durham.
Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle
ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson,
and beast fable to devotional works. Jill Mann's writing, teaching,
and scholarship have transformed our understanding of two distinct
fields, medieval Latin and Middle English literature, as well as
their intersection. Essays in this volume seek to honour this
achievement by looking at entirely new aspects of these fields (the
relationship of song to affect, the political valence of classical
allusion, the Latin background of Middle English devotional texts).
Others look again at the literary kinds and ideas most important in
Mann's own work (beast fable, the nature of allegory, the nature of
"nature", the relationship of economic thought and literature,
satire, language as a subject for poetry) in the poets she hasbeen
most drawn to (Chaucer, Langland, Henryson). All of the essays
involve close readings of the most careful kind, taking as their
primary method Professor Mann's repeated injunction to attend,
above all, to the"words on the page". Christopher Cannon is
Professor of English, New York University; Maura Nolan is Associate
Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley.
Contributors: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Christopher Cannon,Rebecca
Davis, Peter Dronke, A.S.G. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Edwards, Maura
Nolan, Paul J. Patterson, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter, Paul Gerhard
Schmidt, James Simpson, Barry Windeatt, Nicolette Zeeman
Though written for children 12 and older, this is also the best
biography for adults of St. Louis De Montfort, the \"Apostle of
Mary, \" famous preacher and author of True Devotion to Mary and
The Secret of the Rosary. Truly inspiring Impr. 211 pgs 20 Illus,
PB
'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing
shall be well' Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated
figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the
subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her
account of the revelations that she experienced in 1373. Julian
lived as an anchoress in Norwich, and after recovering from a
serious illness she described the visions that had come to her
during her suffering. She conceived of a loving and compassionate
God, merciful and forgiving, and believed in our ability to reach
self-knowledge through sin. She wrote of God as our mother, and
embraced strikingly independent theological opinions. This new
translation conveys the poise and serenity of Julian's prose style
to the modern reader. It includes both the short and long texts,
written twenty years apart, through which Julian developed her
ideas. In his introduction Barry Windeatt considers Julian's
astonishingly positive vision of humanity and its potential for
spiritual transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical
context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal
voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much
critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing
almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws
significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to
contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her
work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern
Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade
in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic
tradition; female mystics and the body; women's roles and
lifecycle; religious drama and reenactment; autobiography and
gender. Contributors: JOHN H. ARNOLD, P.H. CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS,
ALLYSON FOSTER, JACQUELINE JENKINS, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, KATE
PARKER, KIM M. PHILLIPS, SARAH SALIH, CLAIRE SPONSLER, DIANE
WATT,BARRY WINDEATT.
Set of all 20 Children\'s Saints Lives. A $226 Value Impr. PB
For ages 10 and up. Great stories of the saints for youth that are
easy to read; yet extremely edifying and instructing We all need
good examples how to live a good Catholic life -- these books will
not overwhelm or turn off those who need them most.
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