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A concise yet detailed examination of the Normans

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These essays make a case for how unified and well-governed Anglo-Saxon England was, and how numerous and wealthy its inhabitants were. By asking questions about the Anglo-Saxons, and by offering answers to people that question historical orthodoxy, this work demands the rethinking of assumptions.

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Like most other peoples, Spaniards have long wondered about God and the saints--what they want from mortals, how they affect human affairs, even what they look like. The most direct evidence has come from face to face meetings with the holy ones. These meetings are the subject of this book.

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Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. -- .

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Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period.

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Bede the Scholar distils a decade of research by leading scholars on the Northumbrian monk, the Venerable Bede (c. 673-735). Considering his place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world, the book demonstrates the centrality of the Bible to Bedes writings and the coherence and clarity of his scholarly programme.

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Tells the tale of one of the most peculiar incidents of medieval history, and the background to the real Blondel and his fellow troubadours. This title also talks about the courts of love, the Holy Grail, emergence of gothic cathedrals like Notre Dame and Chartres, and the moment of tolerance in the West when Europe shared a language, and more.

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Donald Matthew describes the interactions between Britain and the Continent during the period 1000-1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front.

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Donald Matthew describes the interactions between Britain and the Continent during the period 1000-1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front.

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The first millennium in British history, a period framed by two invasions and conquests from across the Channel, is given a fresh portrayal in this account.

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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Librarys extensive special collections.

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William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84), whose insistence on critical methods for reconstructing the past revolutionized the study of ancient Roman history and the Italian Middle Ages. An internationally published

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Aims to assess the spiritual state of England under Catholicism, before the onslaught of the Reformation. It covers the Latin and the Wycliffite bibles, the way Catholicism was disseminated, the mass, parish celebrations, pilgrimage, indulgences, security for the dead and more. -- .

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The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. -- .

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The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. -- .

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The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. This book examines how medieval writers such as William of Malmesbury and Adam of Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains.

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This collection of essays discusses aspects of church life in each of the three dioceses of Carlisle, Durham and York, identifying the main features of religion in the north and placing contemporary religious attitudes in both a social and a local context.

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Considers many facets of the medieval church, dealing with institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. The text explores the origins of the diocese and the parish, the arrival of the archdeacon, the Normans as cathedral builders and the kings of England and Scotland as monastic patrons.

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