British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period – serie
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Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations
Av Peter of Cornwall, Robert Easting m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
3565 kr
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This is the first book-length study of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London. His Liber Reuelationum (Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51), dated to the year 1200, is a compilation of over 1,100 chapters, excerpted from some 275 Latin texts, dealing with visions of the otherworld and …
Anglicanus ortus
A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century
Av Henry of Huntingdon, Winston Black
Inbunden, 2012
3009 kr
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Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (c 1088–c 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of …
John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events
Inbunden, 2011
2197 kr
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The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340–1408) wrote important Latin poems witnessing the two crucial political events of his day: the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and in 1399 the deposition of Richard II, in the Visio Anglie (A Vision of England) and Cronica tripertita (A Chronicle in Three Parts), …
John Leland: De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men
Av John Leland, James P. Carley
Inbunden, 2010
2396 kr
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Equipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispersed. His booklists were compiled as the primary resources for his comprehensive dictionary of British writers in four books, entitled De uiris …
From the Vulgate to the Vernacular
Four Debates on an English Question c.1400
Av Elizabeth Solopova, Jeremy Catto m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2590 kr
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Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles’ speaking in tongues after the Ascension, and historically, where arguments about it were dominant in Councils, such as those of Trent or the Second Vatican …
Historiae Britannicae Defensio / A Defence of the British History
Inbunden, 2015
2050 kr
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Sir John Prise (1501/2 – 1555), of Brecon, was an influential lawyer and administrator during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. In the 1530s he was brought under the aegis of Thomas Cromwell, to whose family he became connected by marriage, and was appointed visitor …
