"Invaluable."--Choice "Shopkow's translation . . . should be included in all courses on aristocratic society and culture in the Middle Ages."--Parergon "This will join the handful of translated medieval chronicles that now hold canonical status."--Theodore Evergates, author of Aristocratic Women in Medieval France The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, a work made famous by Georges Duby, now appears in an expert translation by Leah Shopkow. Consisting of 154 surviving chapters, Lambert's chronicle is just one of many local genealogies produced in...

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks - the places where students get stuck - that impede learners' paths to expert thinking in a discipline. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them.

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks - the places where students get stuck - that impede learners' paths to expert thinking in a discipline. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them.

In 1220 Abbot William of Andres, a monastery halfway between Calais and Saint-Omer on the busy road from London to Paris, sat down to write an ambitious cartulary-chronicle for his monastery. Although his work was unfinished at his death, William's account is an unpolished gem of medieval historical writing.