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A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part Suicide in the Middle Ages, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore –and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.
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Alexander Murray has long had an intellectual interest in the history of religion - struggling between his inbuilt anti-clericism and his pronounced monastic leanings. The five essays in Conscience and Authority in the Medieval Church take on this dialectic, addressing the difficult relationship between private conscience and public authority in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In any organization, political, military, commercial, or religious, the relationship of conscience and authority is always potentially fraught, and can create dilemmas both for those in authority and those without. This volume records how our European predecessors approached and dealt with the same dilemmas as we face in the modern world.
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This book concentrates on the 250 years beteen the late 11th and early 14th centuries and studies two key facets of the rationalistic tradition.
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A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.
Northern Flora; or, a Description of the Wild Plants Belonging to the North and East of Scotland, With an Account of Their Places of Growth and Properties
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
204 kr
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Northern Flora; or, a Description of the Wild Plants Belonging to the North and East of Scotland, With an Account of Their Places of Growth and Properties
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
353 kr
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History of the European Languages; or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
461 kr
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History of the European Languages; or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
350 kr
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350 kr
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Doings in China
Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in the Late Chinese Expedition, From the Recapture of Chu# in 1841, to the Peace of Mankin in 1842
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
391 kr
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484 kr
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History of the European Languages
Or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic, and Indian Nations; Volume 1
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
489 kr
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182 kr
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344 kr
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History of the European Languages
Or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic, and Indian Nations; Volume 1
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
377 kr
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Doings in China
Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in the Late Chinese Expedition, From the Recapture of Chu# in 1841, to the Peace of Mankin in 1842
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
280 kr
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Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ... Author of Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
475 kr
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Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ... Author of Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
360 kr
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The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to treat it with reference to personal relationships and archaic institutions. The present volume, instead, recognizes the Merovingian world not as an archaic, primitive intrusion on the Mediterranean civilization of the Roman Empire but simply as a participant in the wider commonwealth that existed before and remained after the dissolution of the western imperial system; in so doing, it serves to refute the scholarly tendency to primitivize Merovingian governance, its underlying institutions, and the broader culture upon which these rested.The collection is divided into four parts. Part I considers the question of whether Merovingian kingship should be viewed as a species of archaic, ‘sacral’ kingship. Part II, on institutions, has chapters that deal with various offices (the grafio and centenarius), public institutions (especially immunity and public security), and the broader makeup of the Merovingian state system. Part III, on charters, procedure, and law, has chapters on the profile of the charter evidence as now presented in the new MGH edition of the Merovingian diplomas and one on particular procedures before the royal tribunal, mistakenly referred to in scholarship as ‘fictitious’ trials; a final chapter provides a reflection on, and basic guide to, the law in general of the successor kingdoms, with an eye to the evidence of Merovingian Gaul. Part IV, a slight change of pace, deals with historiography, both the modern variety (Reinhard Wenskus) and the Merovingian (Gregory of Tours). All chapters deal extensively with the historiography of their subjects.This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Early Medieval European history, Merovingian history, Early Medieval law and society, Early Medieval historiography, and the influence of Merovingian law and governance on later centuries. (CS 1104).
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The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to treat it with reference to personal relationships and archaic institutions. The present volume, instead, recognizes the Merovingian world not as an archaic, primitive intrusion on the Mediterranean civilization of the Roman Empire but simply as a participant in the wider commonwealth that existed before and remained after the dissolution of the western imperial system; in so doing, it serves to refute the scholarly tendency to primitivize Merovingian governance, its underlying institutions, and the broader culture upon which these rested.The collection is divided into four parts. Part I considers the question of whether Merovingian kingship should be viewed as a species of archaic, ‘sacral’ kingship. Part II, on institutions, has chapters that deal with various offices (the grafio and centenarius), public institutions (especially immunity and public security), and the broader makeup of the Merovingian state system. Part III, on charters, procedure, and law, has chapters on the profile of the charter evidence as now presented in the new MGH edition of the Merovingian diplomas and one on particular procedures before the royal tribunal, mistakenly referred to in scholarship as ‘fictitious’ trials; a final chapter provides a reflection on, and basic guide to, the law in general of the successor kingdoms, with an eye to the evidence of Merovingian Gaul. Part IV, a slight change of pace, deals with historiography, both the modern variety (Reinhard Wenskus) and the Merovingian (Gregory of Tours). All chapters deal extensively with the historiography of their subjects.This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Early Medieval European history, Merovingian history, Early Medieval law and society, Early Medieval historiography, and the influence of Merovingian law and governance on later centuries. (CS 1104).
easy English grammar; for the use of schools. In three parts. ... By A Murray, ... The second edition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
238 kr
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412 kr
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The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delincated. the Arch Ological and Historical Section by G. V. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Se
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
280 kr
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The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delincated. the Arch Ological and Historical Section by G. V. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Se
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
294 kr
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Doings in China. Being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in the Late Chinese Expedition, from the Recapture of Chusan in 1841, to the Peace of Nankin in 1842.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
280 kr
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The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delincated. the Arch Ological and Historical Section by G. V. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Se
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
272 kr
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Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delincated. the Archaeological and Historical Section by G. V. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Section by A. Murray.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
266 kr
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Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delincated. the Archaeological and Historical Section by G. V. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Section by A. Murray. Volume Second
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
280 kr
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576 kr
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275 kr
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