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
Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contempo
The series devoted to making Middle English texts available and affordable to modern students here presents one of the five scripts for morality plays that survive from the late 14th to the early 16th
For each of the 52 Sundays of the year, and for seven holy days in addition, the cycle summarizes the gospel reading for the day, then provides exemplars of sermons about it. It is composed in rhyming
Like Lydgate's original 1421 poem this classroom text is a companion and sequel to his Troy Book : Edwards (English, Pennsylvania State U.) has followed the same editing principles he did in his sele
Written around 1411, Thomas Hoccleve's poem The Regiment commented on the deposition of Richard II and the subsequent attempts by the Lancastrian crown to assert its authority and legitimacy.
Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-moder
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major to
Castle research witnessed a revival in recent years, and new theoretical and methodological approaches have massively changed our perception of medieval castles. But despite the fact that this renaiss
Kitab al-?Uqud fi Ta?arif al-Luga al-?Ibraniyya is the first Karaite grammar of Biblical Hebrew intended specifically for beginners. Nadia Vidro presents a critical edition of this treatise together w
"Guillaume de Machaut is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. His unique and inventive output is the subject of this new, integrated edition of Machaut's complete poetry and m
