Medieval Texts in Translation Series – serie
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Handbook for William
A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for Her Son
Av Dhuoda
Häftad, 1999
252 kr
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A book of moral and religious reflections written by a Carolingian noblewoman for her teenage son in the middle of the 9th century. Intended as a guide to right conduct, the book was to be shared in time with William's younger brother. Dhuoda's situation was poignant. Her husband, Bernard, the …
Robert of Arbrissel
A Medieval Religious Life
Av Bruce L. Venarde, Bruce L. Venarde
Häftad, 2003
261 kr
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Contemporaries hailed the preacher and reformer Robert of Arbrissel (c 1045-1116) as a thunderclap of holy eloquence that lit up the Church - or they castigated him as a sponsor of sexual license. Robert has remained a controversial figure ever since, seen as a missionary to all manner of …
Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna
Häftad, 2004
389 kr
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Agnellus' ""Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna"", written in the ninth century, is a source for the study of Italian history from the fourth to the ninth centuries. Agnellus seems to have been a well-born priest in the church of Ravenna, and his work is strongly coloured by his personal …
Between God and Man
Six Sermons on the Priestly Office
Häftad, 2004
276 kr
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When Innocent III became pope in 1198 he announced that he had been elevated to a position ""between God and man"". This audacious claim has often been quoted to characterize the papal monarchy over which he presided and the secular powers he wielded for the 18 years of his controversial tenure. …
Queenship and Sanctity
The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid
Häftad, 2004
353 kr
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At the dawn of the second millennium, authors from monasteries in Burgundy and northern Germany recorded the lives and deaths of two powerful and pious women, Mathilda (d. 968) and Adelheid (d. 999). Both were extolled as saints, exemplary figures guided by God and witnessing to His grace. Unlike …
Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona
Av Bishop of Cremona Liudprand
Häftad, 2008
379 kr
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This modern English translation of all the surviving literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, offers unrivaled insight into society and culture in western Europe during the ""iron century."" Since Liudprand enjoyed the favor of the Saxon Roman emperor Otto …
Preaching in the Age of Chaucer
Selected Sermons in Translation
Häftad, 2008
448 kr
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Introducing modern readers to the riches of preaching in later medieval England, distinguished scholar Siegfried Wenzel offers translations of twenty-five Latin sermons written between 1350 and 1450. These carefully selected and previously untranslated sermons demonstrate how preachers constructed …
