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Kathy Galloway offers a series of reflections on living by the Rule of the Iona Community, exploring its history, inner life and public witness. They arise from her conviction that 'the Rule is, for us, a source of freedom and, in its outworking, contains something of our prophetic edge. It is not so much that I keep the Rule, as that the Rule keep

In a dangerous world it helps to know the face of your enemy. Briarly castle has been sacked by unknown forces, its defenders slaughtered. Now it is up to its new lord, Bryant Beringar, to refortify its walls and protect its people. No small task when the nameless enemies outside the walls may not be as dangerous as the madwoman within them. Duty demands sacrifice, and sacrifice he will to build a new life in a new home. But first he must survive long enough to discover what lies beyond all sorrow.

The first comprehensive analysis of English national identity in the late Middle Ages. During the late Middle Ages, the increasing expansion of administrative, legal, and military systems by a central government, together with the greater involvement of the commons in national life, brought England closer than ever to political nationhood. Examining a diverse array of texts--ranging from Latin and vernacular historiography to Lollard tracts, Ricardian poetry, and chivalric treatises--this volume reveals the variety of forms "England" assumed when it was imagined in the medieval West. These...