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The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise
Av RADICE LUSCOMBE, David Luscombe
Inbunden, 2013
5789 kr
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The collected letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise provide an extraordinarily vivid account of one of the most celebrated love affairs in the western world. It was an affair that developed into a vigorous quarrel and raised fundamental questions about love, marriage, and religious life, and also …
Nigel of Longchamp, Speculum Stultorum
Av Jill Mann
Inbunden, 2023
3943 kr
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An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. This was one of the most popular works of the Middle Ages, a favourite of Chaucer, Gower, and Henryson, …
Peter Abelard: Collationes
Av Peter Abelard, John Marenbon
Inbunden, 2001
3794 kr
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Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the twelfth century, famed for his skill in logic as well as his romance with Heloise. Even among Abelard's writings, the Collationes - or Dialogue between a Christian, a Philosopher, and a Jew - are remarkable …
Libellus de Diversis Ordinibus et Professionibus qui Sunt in Aecclesia
Av Giles Constable, Bernard S. Smith
Inbunden, 1972
2329 kr
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The Libellus de Diversis Ordinibus was written in the 1130s or 1140s, probably in the diocese of Liège, a recognized centre of religious and intellectual activity at the time. It is a description of the similarities and differences among the various orders of monks, canons, and hermits, and, though …
Dondinus Papiensis OP
Dyalogus de potentia summi pontificis: A Dialogue on the Power of the Supreme Pontiff
Av Patrick Nold
Inbunden, 2025
2875 kr
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This volume presents the first edition and translation of the Dyalogus de potentia summi pontifices, a little known, fragmentary work of fourteenth-century political theory by the Dominican Dondinus of Pavia. Dedicated to the Avignon Pope John XXII (1316-1334), it provides theological, …
Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Historia Regum
Inbunden, 2022
3850 kr
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During the past generation, Byrhtferth of Ramsey (c. 970 - c. 1020) has emerged as one of the principal authors of late Anglo-Saxon England, whose writings - in both Latin and Old English - are among the most important sources for our understanding of early English history. This work, the Historia …
The History of Llanthony Priory
Inbunden, 2022
1688 kr
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The text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Monmouthshire, from its origin around 1100 as an isolated hermitage, through the introduction of the Augustinian Order and the semi-abandonment of the initial site in …
Gerald of Wales
On the Deeds of Gerald, De gestis Giraldi
Av Jacob Currie
Inbunden, 2023
2905 kr
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De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actually by Gerald himself, and framed as the biography of a bishop although Gerald never became a bishop. Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed Norman and Welsh descent and …
Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium
The Deeds of the Franks who Conquered Jerusalem, 1095–1106
Inbunden, 2026
2961 kr
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The Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium is a history of the First Crusade and the first years of Latin rule in the kingdom of Jerusalem (1095–1106) written before 1120, probably in Flanders. The anonymous author acknowledged that he had based his work on that of Fulcher of Chartres who was a …
William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella
The Contemporary History
Av William of Malmesbury, Edmund King
Inbunden, 1998, 6-9 år
4406 kr
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The Historia Novella is a key source for the succession dispute between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England to civil war in the twelfth century. William of Malmesbury was the doyen of the historians of his day. His account of the main events of the years 1126 to 1142, to some …
The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster
Attributed to a Monk of Saint-Bertin
Inbunden, 1992
5551 kr
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The anonymous Life of King Edward, written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provides a fascinating account of Edward the Confessor and his family: his wife Edith, his father-in-law …
Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, Ecclesie
Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham
Av Symeon of Durham, David Rollason
Inbunden, 2000
5606 kr
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The church of Durham, founded in 995, claimed in the Middle Ages to be in origin the church of Lindisfarne or Holy Island, the members of which had fled in the face of Viking raids and had wandered for long across northern England, before re-establishing their church at Chester-le-Street in Co. …
Adomnán's Life of Columba
Av Adomnán, Alan Orr and Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
Inbunden, 1991
4549 kr
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BL With revised Latin text and English translationBL New historical notes and rewritten IntroductionColumba is one of the best-known saints of the early Celtic church; through his foundation of the abbey of Iona he had a far-reaching influence on medieval Christianity. In about 700, a century after …
The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis: Volume II: Books III & IV
Av Orderic Vitalis, Marjorie Chibnall
Häftad, 1990
1935 kr
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The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called `the greatest of all medieval chronicles'. Written in Normandy between 1114 and 1141, it is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid, often penetrating portraits of the lives and characters of kings and …
Gervase of Tilbury: Otia Imperialia
Recreation for an Emperor
Av Gervase, S. E. Banks m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
7736 kr
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This is the first English translation and the first modern critical edition of Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia. Gervase wrote the Otia Imperialia in the early thirteenth century for his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. It presents an encyclopedic melange of cosmographical, historical, …
The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery
Inbunden, 1999
4414 kr
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The monastery of Walden was founded c.1136 by Geoffrey de Mandeville, a prominent baron in the civil war of Stephen's reign. Its site just outside the town of Saffron Walden in Essex is now occupied by the great Jacobean mansion known as Audley End House. The Book of the Foundation of Walden …
The Letters of Peter of Celle
Inbunden, 2001
5995 kr
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Peter of Celle, abbot of the great Benedictine houses of Montier-la-Celle (c.1145-62) and Saint-Remi, Reims (1162-81), and bishop of Chartres (1181-3), was a figure of considerable authority and influence in twelfth-century France. Close to the royal family and to the court of Champagne, a friend …
The St Albans Chronicle
The Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham: Volume I 1376-1394
Av TAYLOR
Inbunden, 2003
8652 kr
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Thomas Walsingham, a monk of St Albans, has been described as the last of the great medieval chroniclers. His major work, the Chronica maiora, covers the years 1376 to 1420, and is arguably the most important account of English history to be written in England at this time. Walsingham's text has …
Thomas of Marlborough: History of the Abbey of Evesham
Av Jane Sayers, Leslie Watkiss
Inbunden, 2003
6522 kr
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The Evesham History is one of the last important thirteenth-century texts to be translated. This is also the first completely new edition of the Latin since that of 1863. The author, Thomas of Marlborough, was an educated and much travelled man and his work was written not so much in terms of a …
The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377-1421
Av Adam Usk, Christopher Given-Wilson
Inbunden, 1997
4971 kr
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Adam Usk, the full details of whose remarkable life are here revealed for the first time, was born in Usk around the middle of the fourteenth century. Through the patronage of the Mortimer family - the earls of March - he studied law at Oxford, eventually rising to hold a chair in civil law there, …
Knighton's Chronicle 1337-1396
Av Henry Knighton, G. H. Martin
Inbunden, 1995
7501 kr
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Henry Knighton, a canon of St Mary's Abbey, Leicester, wrote his Chronicle between 1378 and 1396. Leicester was a fief of the duchy of Lancaster, and the abbey was closely in touch with the households of Henry of Grosmont and John of Gaunt. The Chronicle contains exceptionally vivid accounts of the …
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni: Volume II: Books V-VIII
Inbunden, 1995
4602 kr
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The Gesta Normannorum Ducum is one of the most important sources for the history of Normandy and England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and contains the earliest prose account of the Norman Conquest. It was written by a succession of authors, the first of whom was William of Jumieges, who …
Saxo Grammaticus (Volume I)
Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes
Av FRIIS-JENSEN, Karsten Friis-Jensen
Inbunden, 2015
5867 kr
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Saxo was probably a canon of Lund Cathedral, at that period a Danish cathedral, and lived at the end of the twelfth century. He was in the service of Archbishop Absalon, who encouraged him to write a history of his own country from the beginnings up to his own time, with a strong Christian bias. …
Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints' Lives
Vita S. Birini, Vita et Miracula S. Kenelmi, and Vita S. Rumwoldi
Inbunden, 1996
6447 kr
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This volume contains comprehensive and scholarly editions of three Anglo-Saxon saints' lives: Birinus of Dorchester-on-Thames, Kenelm of Winchcombe, and Rumwold of Buckingham. Rosalind Love provides the Latin texts, based on all known manuscript versions, with a facing-page English translation, …
The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers
Av William of Poitiers, R. H. C. Davis
Inbunden, 1998
4549 kr
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William of Poitiers began his career as a knight before studying in the schools of Poitiers and entering the Church. He became a chaplain in the household of William the Conqueror, and was able to give a first-hand account of the events of 1066-7. The Gesta Guillelmi, his unfinished biography of …
The Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum
Inbunden, 2019
4121 kr
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This volume presents, for the first time, an edition and facing English translation of all of the stories that belong to the Anglo-Latin corpus of the immensely popular and influential collection of moralized stories from the Middle Ages, known as Gesta Romanorum ('The Deeds of the Romans'). The …
Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna
Inbunden, 2002
3736 kr
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Geoffrey of Burton's Life and Miracles of St Modwenna (BHL 2097) is among the most substantial pieces of twelfth-century English hagiographic writing not previously to have appeared in print. It was produced by the abbot of Burton, where Modwenna's bones supposedly lay, in the period 1118-50, and …
William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings: Volume I
Av R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
6895 kr
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William of Malmesbury's Regesta Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle Ages. Although its focus is national, its scope encompasses most of Western Europe and beyond, providing a …
William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum: Volume II: General Introduction and Commentary
Av R. M. Thomson, Michael Winterbottom
Inbunden, 1999
4790 kr
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William of Malmesbury's Regesta Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle Ages. Volume II of the Oxford Medieval Texts edition provides a full historical introduction, a detailed …
The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume III: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with the Gloucester Interpolations and the Continuation to 1141
Av John of Worcester, P. McGurk
Inbunden, 1998
8133 kr
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The chronicle of John of Worcester is one of the most important sources for earlier English history. Completed at Worcester by 1140, it is of considerable interest to historians of both the Anglo-Saxon period and the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its annals complement and add significantly …
