Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society PDF Author: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society PDF Author: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The Stripping of the Altars

The Stripping of the Altars PDF Author: Eamon Duffy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300254415
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 785

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This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. "A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered; a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control."--J. J. Scarisbrick, The Tablet "Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work."--Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal "A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate."--Patricia Morison, Financial Times "Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated."--Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award

Turpines Story

Turpines Story PDF Author: Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197223253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Artur by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.

Proceedings

Proceedings PDF Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society PDF Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland PDF Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.

The Fifteenth Century XX

The Fifteenth Century XX PDF Author: Linda Clark
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 183765199X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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"This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW As is appropriate in a volume honouring the distinguished scholarship in this field of Dr Rowena E. Archer, wealthy and influential ladies, most notably Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk, take centre stage, alongside successive queens consort of the period, whose councils helped to implement justice. Alice's almshouse at Ewelme provides a fine example of the many institutions which offered care for the elderly in late medieval England, a period when Henry VII placed great emphasis on the burials of his kinsfolk, particularly in Westminster abbey, to ensure that their memory would endure. Pretenders to the throne of that king and his successor, who included Alice's grandson, bring into focus the riots of 1487 near the borders of Wales and portraits dating from the 1520s. Other themes of language (how Henry V employed English in France), law (the development of the concept of the body corporate) and taxation (levies imposed on imported wine) are added to an intriguing comparison of relations between English administrators and the nobility of Gascony with British imperialists and the princes of India.

Middle English Dictionary

Middle English Dictionary PDF Author: Hans Kurath
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472010011
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

Proceedings

Proceedings PDF Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Urban Bodies

Urban Bodies PDF Author: Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843838362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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"This first full-length study of public health in pre-Reformation England challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about the insanitary nature of urban life during "the golden age of bacteria". Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws on material remains as well as archives, it examines the medical, cultural and religious contexts in which ideas about the welfare of the communal body developed. Far from demonstrating indifference, ignorance or mute acceptance in the face of repeated onslaughts of epidemic disease, the rulers and residents of English towns devised sophisticated and coherent strategies for the creation of a more salubrious environment; among the plethora of initiatives whose origins often predated the Black Death can also be found measures for the improvement of the water supply, for better food standards and for the care of the sick, both rich and poor."--Provided by publisher.