This is the first English translation of the eleventh-century Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, often described as the foremost Latin chronicler of the Middle Ages. The work includes an introduction and a detailed commentary, particularly concerned with the long disputed question of the credibility of Lampert's account. The introduction deals with the career of the author, the date of his composition, his literary personality and world-picture. Lampert produced the most detailed narrative source of the Central Middle Ages in his account of the crisis years 1056-77 in the kingdom of...
This is the first English translation of the eleventh-century Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, often described as the foremost Latin chronicler of...
This is the first English translation of the eleventh-century Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, often described as the foremost Latin chronicler of the Middle Ages. The work includes an introduction and a detailed commentary, particularly concerned with the long disputed question of the credibility of Lampert's account. The introduction deals with the career of the author, the date of his composition, his literary personality and world-picture. Lampert produced the most detailed narrative source of the Central Middle Ages in his account of the crisis years 1056-77 in the kingdom of...
This is the first English translation of the eleventh-century Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, often described as the foremost Latin chronicler of...
John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe, an outspoken controversialist and critic of the church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. Throughout his academic career, he produced a vast number of scholarly works in Latin, ranging from his early logical and philosophical writings to his mature theological texts, pastoral writings and polemical tracts. To date, however, very little of this scholarly writing has been made available in English translation. This new collection of translations represents...
John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe, an outspoken controversialist and critic of the church, and, in hi...
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. Concentrating on the relatively well-documented centuries between 1100 and 1500, it draws on a variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development. Taking account of recent research on material and social aspects of urban life, the book invites students to consider for themselves the challenges and opportunities presented by a wide range of sources. The merchant, for example, is seen from different angles - as an economic agent, as a religious patron and in Chaucer's...
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. Concentrating on the relatively well-documented centuries between ...
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. It concentrates on the relatively well-documented centuries between 1100 and 1500, drawing on the rich variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development. Taking account of recent research on material and social aspects of urban life, the volume invites students to consider for themselves the challenges and the opportunities presented by a wide range of sources. The merchant, for example, is seen from different angles --as an economic agent, a religious patron and in...
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. It concentrates on the relatively well-documented centuries between 1...
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them....
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-centu...
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them....
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-centu...
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field. -- .
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been publis...
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field. -- .
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been publis...
