This book brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. By focusing on images of St Anne and the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs, it reassesses the role of the female viewer as an active agent in the interpretation of pictures and popular devotional rites. Holy motherhood combines an innovative methodology that draws on art-historical and contemporary gender studies with empirical evidence from fifteenth-century manuscripts, to show how images worked not only to...
This book brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. By focusing on images of St Anne and the ...
Current explanations of long-run changes in the medieval English economy have largely used models in which changes in the money supply play very little part. Here a fresh approach is taken and the money supply is seen as one of the main variables in the workings of the economy. In Part One, theories and problems in using monetary theory and numismatic evidence to model the medieval economy are fully discussed, as are the coins in circulation and the practical challenges faced in putting into circulation millions of coins struck by hand. The aim is to provide the reader with an informed...
Current explanations of long-run changes in the medieval English economy have largely used models in which changes in the money supply play very littl...
Paraphrases of Gregory the Great's dictum permeate scholarship on the medieval Bible, arguing that the Bible was known to the laity through image, through sermons or liturgy. This book traces the mechanisms and impact of such mediated knowledge. It demonstrates - through an extensive survey of biblical manuscripts, court records, sermon collections, visual images and liturgical rites - how the Bible assumed rhythm and image, locations and gestures; how means of transmission shared space and time, and complemented one another in shaping popular and elite perceptions of the biblical text. The...
Paraphrases of Gregory the Great's dictum permeate scholarship on the medieval Bible, arguing that the Bible was known to the laity through image, thr...
This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fresh look at lordship and the interplay between aristocracy and crown from 1166 to 1241. Hugh de Lacy (d.1186) traded on his military usefulness to King Henry II of England in Wales and Normandy to gain a speculative grant of the ancient Irish kingdom of Mide (Meath). Hugh was remarkably successful in Ireland, where he was able to thwart the juvenile ambitions of the future King John...
This book examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational ...
How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way? This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. An extensive and interdisciplinary survey of biblical manuscripts and visual images, sermons and chants, reveals how the unique qualities of each medium became part of the way the Bible was known and recalled; how oral, textual, performative and visual means of transmission joined to present a surprisingly...
How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in...
