"Beyond the Difference" is a celebration of the work of Wales s leading literary critic M. Wynn Thomas, with contributions from internationally acclaimed writers and poets, as well as significant critics working in the field.
Looking initially at the relationships between the English and Welsh language literatures of Wales, the volume proceeds to explore the interactions of nationhood and gender from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the politics of translation in Wales as compared to Ireland and America, and the intriguing connections between Welsh literature and American,...
"Beyond the Difference" is a celebration of the work of Wales s leading literary critic M. Wynn Thomas, with contributions from internationally acc...
The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over the past thirty years of dramatic change: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the growth of white-collar employment and unions, the Thatcher and Major years of high unemployment and industrial law reform, and the increasing numbers of low-paid part-time workers, most of them women.Throughout the period the Wales TUC has negotiated with a succession of Secretaries of State of varying persuasions,...
The Wales TUC is the national institution representing the organised workers of Wales. Joe England seeks to explain and assess its achievements over t...
The "Glossa Ordinaria" is an extensively annotated Bible that was printed in circa 1841 and has been a rich source of biblical commentary ever since. In the form in which it was originally circulated, the accompanying patristic commentary was handwritten in the margins of an edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible of Saint Jerome. This exhaustive study, the first of its kind, serves as a primer on the "Glossa Ordinaria" and a readable overview of the history of the work, from its genesis in the twelfth century through its final printed edition in the nineteenth century. In addition, David A....
The "Glossa Ordinaria" is an extensively annotated Bible that was printed in circa 1841 and has been a rich source of biblical commentary ever sinc...
Medieval anchorites embraced the most extreme and punishing form of solitude known to the medieval world enclosure in the same four walls for life in order to forge a closer connection with God. As a way of understanding the lives, beliefs, and experiences of anchorites, "Reading Medieval Anchoritism" explores guides to the anchorite life that were published in England throughout the Middle Ages. Mari Hughes-Edwards surveys five centuries of the guides negotiations of four anchoritic ideals enclosure, solitude, chastity, and orthodoxy as well as two vital spiritual practices, asceticism...
Medieval anchorites embraced the most extreme and punishing form of solitude known to the medieval world enclosure in the same four walls for life ...
"Anchoritism in the Middle Ages" approaches medieval anchoritism from a variety of critical angles. Individually, the essays challenge perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic rule and guidance, study the interaction between language and linguistic forms in anchoritic texts, address the connection between anchoritism and other forms of solitude, and explore the influence of anchoritic literature on lay devotion. As a whole, the volume, which ranges from the third century to the sixteenth and spans all of Europe, illuminates the richness and fluidity of anchoritic works and shows...
"Anchoritism in the Middle Ages" approaches medieval anchoritism from a variety of critical angles. Individually, the essays challenge perceived notio...
