Medieval Texts in Translation – serie
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Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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The Romantic Tale of Peter Abelard and Heloise has been widely known for centuries. The legend relates in part to the letters exchanged between the two, years after Abelard had been castrated at the behest of Heloise's vindictive uncle, Fulbert. These ""personal"" letters form the basis for …
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-century Saxony
The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the family's cloisters for religious women. She spent the last thirty years of her life in her cell, doing penance for her sins, fending off attacks by the devil, and …
Chronicle of the Czechs
Cosmas of Prague
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, it is the source of the oldest stories about the land, …
Handbook for Curates
A Late Medieval Manual on Pastoral Ministry
Häftad, 2011
389 kr
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Guido of Monte Rochen’s Handbook for Curates became the most popular pastoral manual at the close of the Middle Ages as thousands of copies were printed in Europe. Composed of a mixture of practical “how to” and theological instruction, the Handbook taught pastoral basics to everyday priests. As …
Deeds of the Saxons
Inbunden, 2014
357 kr
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Widukind, a monk at the prominent monastery of Corvey in Saxony during the middle third of the tenth century, is known to posterity through his Res gestae Saxonicae, an exceptionally rich account of the Saxon people and the reigns of the first two rulers of the Ottonian dynasty, Henry I (919–936) …
