First printed in 1850, The City of the Jugglers is a cautionary Victorian novel about futures trading in human souls following a financial crisis. Prior to this edition, only a handful of copies existed in U.S. library holdings. This volume is reproduced from the first edition in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.

The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds broadly conceived, and includes topics ranging from the origins of Welsh law and the evidence for the development of the chivalric tournament in the Norman chroniclers to the use of saints to cement regional power, the reception of Dudo of St Quentin, the regional divides in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and more. The volume is particularly noteworthy for several studies that bring together historical and archaeological evidence in new and challenging ways....

Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and the continent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Topics range from Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic and hagiographical texts, to Robert Curthose's interaction with the Norman episcopate and the revival of Roman legal studies, to the dynamics of...

William North is a distinguished painter carrying on the tradition of the great age of impressionism-working from life, painting landscapes in the field, and still lifes in the studio.Painting in oils for sixty years, the artist has been represented in galleries for more than forty years. His paintings are in hundreds of collections in the United States and abroad, as far away as Moscow and Tokyo.This book, a collaboration with his daughter, Colleen, gives an intimate, revealing look into the life and art of this prolific painter.

This volume of the Haskins Society Journal brings together a rich and interdisciplinary collection of articles. Topics range from the politics and military organization of northern worlds of the Anglo-Normans and Angevins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, to the economic activity of women in Catalonia and political unrest in thirteenth-century Tripoli. Martin Millett's chapter on the significance of rural life in Roman Britain for the early Middle Ages continues the Journal's commitment to archaeological approaches to medieval history, while contributions on AElfric's complex use of...

Continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research into the early and central Middle Ages, demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary sources can yield new insights into or important revisions of our understanding of the past.