Volume 24 in Papers in Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies is an unusual book. It is the result of a conference on the results of an interdisciplanary project to reconst
Reflecting the strong aesthetic turn in literary studies, these powerful, persuasive essays keep an eye on the seductions of beauty while offering fresh approaches to medieval poetics. Significant new
This volume rounds out an important trilogy of studies by Pierre Payer on the topic of sex in the ecclesiastical thought and writings of the middle ages. His first volume,Sex and the Penitentials: The
This gathering of eighteen essays explores a period in Britain when the world of letters was brought under harness by the political centre as it had never been before or has been since. The importance
The twelve essays in this volume all began their existence as contributions to workshops held between 2009 and 2011 by a Danish-Swedish research network called The Aristotelian Tradition: The receptio
The essays in this volume show how the teaching of law and theology in the medieval schools was part of a pastoral project to foster a just Christian society and to lead souls to contemplation of God.
The 21 chapters are enlarged from presentations at the November 2008 international conference "Tradition and the Individual Talent: Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages," held in Bergen, Norway. In
William of Auvergne's work on morals (translated by Roland Teske in this second in a series) has been an absorption in the philosophical world since William served as bishop from 1228 to 1249. He used
By the early thirteenth century, European Jewish life was firmly rooted in the directives and doctrines of the Babylonian Talmud. In 1236, however, an apostate named Nicholas Donin appeared at the cou
The principal signs and instruments of grace available to Christians as a result of Christ's redeeming work are the sacraments of the Church - baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme un
Roger Bacon's Opus maius represents an attempt to create a whole new vision of what Christian education should be, one centered on service to the Church. One chapter of this work, "On Signs," is the m
Book 3 of the Sentences deals with the mystery of the Word made flesh: Christ's incarnation, passion, and death, the consequent restoration of humankind, and the virtues to be practised in imitation o
This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 2 of the Sentences. It consists of forty-four Distinctions and contains an introduction to Book 2, a list of the maj
This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 1 of Peter Lombard?s Sentences, the work that would win the greatest teacher of the twelfth century a place in Dante
The allusion in the title to the dwarf on the shoulders of the giant underscores the central themes of this collection: the debt each generation owes to the intellectual achievements of those that pre
From the deep sea to the waters above the sky, from the world beneath our feet to the promised land across the ocean - this volume represents a search for traces of cosmologies in Celtic sources, espe
This volume makes "The Moral Treatise on the Eye" available for the first time in English, and also contains an introduction to Peter of Limoges, his intellectual interests, the sources of the "Treati
This volume brings together the knowledge of a number of distinguished scholars whose contributions to the field of Poema de mio Cid studies have been widely recognized. It provides an informed introd
A classic account of Charles the Great and the heyday of Frankish rule in Europe, evaluating the achievements and failures of the empire which has been called ?the first Europe.? Reprinted from the 19
1217: Commoner-turned-earl’s-man Edwin Weaver joins the earl’s army as it marches for the Kent coast to defend the realm against an invading French fleet. But when a series of accidents pu
1217: The war for the throne of England is far from over but as commoner-turned-earl’s-man Edwin Weaver waits to see where his lord’s loyalties lie, a messenger arrives from Roche Abbey: one of the mo
The third book in a trilogy of medieval mysteries featuring commoner-turned-earl's-man, Edwin Weaver 1217: Edwin Weaver has returned to Conisbrough from his blood-soaked adventure in Lincoln, but he h
