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The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey

An Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's "Cronica Sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie"

By: James P. Carley

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The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey

An Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's "Cronica Sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie"

By: James P. Carley

John of Glastonbury's chronicle represents an attempt to summarise the lore and learning about Glastonbury Abbey and its past available in the fourteenth century, a body of knowledge which changed very little before the Reformation. The author drew on a large number of sources and edited these skilfully to form his narrative, while preserving the earlier text almost intact. The result is the fullest medieval account of the abbey and its legends. A translation is included, which makes the important text available in English for the first time, and the whole volume is designed as a companion to John Scott's edition and translation of William of Malmesbury's twelfth-century account of the abbey's history.

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390

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Boydell & Brewer

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0851158595

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9780851158594

Art in England

The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600

By: Sara N. James

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Art in England

The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600

By: Sara N. James

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.

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369

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Oxbow Books

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1785702262

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9781785702266

Permanent Revolution

The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

By: James Simpson

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Permanent Revolution

The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

By: James Simpson

How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism? The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and destructive iconoclasm. Yet by 1688, this illiberal early modern upheaval would deliver the foundations of liberalism: free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, readerly freedom, constitutionalism, and aesthetic liberty. How did a movement with such illiberal beginnings lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment? James Simpson provocatively rewrites the history of liberalism and uncovers its unexpected debt to evangelical religion. Sixteenth-century Protestantism ushered in a culture of permanent revolution, ceaselessly repudiating its own prior forms. Its rejection of tradition was divisive, violent, and unsustainable. The proto-liberalism of the later seventeenth century emerged as a cultural package designed to stabilize the social chaos brought about by this evangelical revolution. A brilliant assault on many of our deepest assumptions, Permanent Revolution argues that far from being driven by a new strain of secular philosophy, the British Enlightenment is a story of transformation and reversal of the Protestant tradition from within. The gains of liberalism were the unintended results of the violent early Reformation. Today those gains are increasingly under threat, in part because liberals do not understand their own history. They fail to grasp that liberalism is less the secular opponent of religious fundamentalism than its dissident younger sibling, uncertain how to confront its older evangelical competitor.

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465

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Belknap Press

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0674987136

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9780674987135

Musical Notation in the West

By: James Grier

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Musical Notation in the West

By: James Grier

A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.

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287

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Cambridge University Press

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0521898161

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9780521898164

Before Malory

Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England

By: Richard James Moll

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Before Malory

Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England

By: Richard James Moll

Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. Moll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802037224

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9780802037220

Wisdom's Workshop

The Rise of the Modern University

By: James Axtell,William R Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell

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Wisdom's Workshop

The Rise of the Modern University

By: James Axtell,William R Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell

An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre–Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.

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Princeton University Press

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0691247587

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9780691247588

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn

A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

By: Keagan Brewer,James Kane

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The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn

A critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

By: Keagan Brewer,James Kane

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when the city was besieged and captured, the Libellus fuses historical narrative and biblical exegesis in an attempt to recount and interpret the loss of the Holy Land, an event that provoked an outpouring of grief throughout western Christendom and sparked the Third Crusade. This book provides an English translation of the Libellus accompanied by a new, comprehensive critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.

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Routledge

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1351390694

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9781351390699

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

By: Stewart James Mottram

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Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

By: Stewart James Mottram

Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843841827

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9781843841821

Troubling Arthurian Histories

Court Culture, Performance and Scandal in Chrétien de Troyes's Erec Et Enide

By: James R. Simpson

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Troubling Arthurian Histories

Court Culture, Performance and Scandal in Chrétien de Troyes's Erec Et Enide

By: James R. Simpson

Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chrétien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.

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Peter Lang

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3039113852

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9783039113859

James P. Clarke (Late a Senator From Arkansas)

By: James P. Clarke

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James P. Clarke (Late a Senator From Arkansas)

By: James P. Clarke

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1010241958

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The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey

The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey

Art in England

Art in England

Permanent Revolution

Permanent Revolution

Musical Notation in the West

Musical Notation in the West

Before Malory

Before Malory

Wisdom's Workshop

Wisdom's Workshop

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Troubling Arthurian Histories

Troubling Arthurian Histories

James P. Clarke (Late a Senator From Arkansas)

James P. Clarke (Late a Senator From Arkansas)

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