This volume is a companion to the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474, edited in two parts under the aegis of the Suffolk Records Society. It provides comprehensive, separate indexes to bo
The extraordinary voyages of Pero Tafur throughout the Mediterranean basin from 1435 to 1439 abound with the expectation of discovery. This remarkable narrative derives from a single manuscript in a p
The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few, and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque pe
In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thou
Discovered in 1934, the Book of Margery Kempe recounts the experiences of Kempe (ca.1373-1439)--a married, middle-class English woman--as she traveled throughout Europe and the Holy Land on spiritual
This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative works in the Renaissance on the use of language, Lorenzo Valla's Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae (1439) and Rudolph Agricola
