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'Suicide' and 'the Middle Ages' sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? Alexander Murray takes the last question first, as a key to the testing of all other assumptions. Examining a wide range of documents he shows that there were indeed suicides, of types and configurations astonishingly modern, if not in numbers per capita. As for reactions, they were of two kinds. One was to heap suicide with every imaginable curse, natural and supernatural, and the author's search for their religious, anthropological, and legal background leads far outside medieval christendom. However, he also uncovers a less negative reaction as, from the eleventh century onwards, medicine, psychology, poetry, and the pastoral priesthood charted ever more assiduously the terra incognita of suicidal emotion.
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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
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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
351 kr
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History of the European Languages; or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
459 kr
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History of the European Languages; or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
348 kr
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348 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
389 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
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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
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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
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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
473 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
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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
237 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
279 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
293 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
279 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
271 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
265 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
279 kr
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564 kr
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