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  • Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625–786

    by Peter Darby ...
    Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers the first comprehensive study of Northumbria’s vibrant epistolary culture in the seventh and eighth centuries. Through a close examination of more than fifty surviving Latin letters—many written by or to figures such as Bede, Acca of Hexham, Ælfflæd of Whitby, and Alcuin —this book uncovers the literary, political, and spiritual dimensions of early ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Bede the scholar

    Edited by Peter Darby, Máirín MacCarron ...
    Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk’s place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world. Demonstrating the centrality of the Bible to his scholarship, chapters focus on Bede’s engagement with scriptural languages, his knowledge and use of earlier works of Latin literature, and a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bede and the End of Time

    by Peter Darby ...
    Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and his writings had a profound influence on the development of English Christian thought. Among the many issues he wrote about, eschatology - the study of the day of judgment and the end of time - was a recurring theme. Whilst recent research has furthered our knowledge of this subject in the later Middle Ages, Dr ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Bede and the Future

    Edited by Peter Darby, Faith Wallis ...
    Series series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
    Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England’s most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. Bede and the Future brings together an international group of Bede scholars to examine a number of questions about Bede’s attitude towards, and ideas about, the time to come. This encompasses the short-term future (Bede’s own ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Gimp

    by Peter Darby ...
    He despises his work, considers his co-workers to be cattle, and only hates himself marginally less than everyone else. Of an evening, he dresses in bondage gear and hangs around in alleyways waiting to beat up muggers. Because that's what his transcendental dominatrix tells him to do. Meet the Gimp. "Compelling and unexpectedly uplifting" - Cy Dethan, author of Cancertown. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    by Samu Niskanen ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

    Edited by E. A. Livingstone ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, this is an indispensable guide for both students and the general reader. Over 6,000 entries provide authoritative coverage of theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations across the world, canon law, and the church calendar, as well as entries on theologians, philosophers, artists, musicians, and mystics. The ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe

    by Alexander O'Hara ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
    The period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power networks. This collected volume of essays focuses on one of the central figures in this process, the ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

    by G.R. Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • John Wyclif

    by G. R. Evans ...
    The name of John Wyclif is surrounded by mythology. The ideas associated with his name had a huge influence and their effects were felt in the sequence of events which eventually led to the Reformation. This major biography offers fresh insights into Wyclif the man, his preoccupations and his achievements. The author follows Wyclif through his childhood and university days at Oxford to his life as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

    by Dirk van Miert ...
    The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-political ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • The European Book in the Twelfth Century

    Edited by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe ... Read more

    $43.99 USD