The Antwerp London Glossaries are eleventh-century descendents of the earliest school text in the English language. In their earliest form they played a central role at the seventh-century school of C
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the ori
In the wake of religious conversion and the establishment of more stable political systems, the outskirts of Latin Christendom produced historical narratives providing their present identities with a
The image of Jesus suspended between the earth and eternal life is at once simple and remarkably adaptable and complex, state the editors in their introduction. The impetus for this volume came from a
British and American scholars explore aspects of the heavily illustrated 11th-century manuscript that contains one of the first efforts at translating the Bible into a European vernacular, and the ear
Ten papers which reflect a wide range of research interests into the Old English Hexateuch, an 11th-century manuscript (Claudius Biv) in the British Library which contains one of the earliest extended
This book is an edition of eight late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Latin texts that chronicle and/or comment upon events that led, in 1399, to the deposition of King Richard II.
The Cistercian hagiographer, Jocelin of Furness (fl.1175x1214), composed four important and influential saints' lives; varying widely in both subject and patron, they offer a rich corpus of medieval
The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, an issue which th
