Itineraries [of] William Worcestre
Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
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Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
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Author : William Worcester
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William Worcester
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Manuscripts, Medieval
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Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
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Author : Dean K. Worcester
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Salisbury (Mass. : Town)
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Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108840574
Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.
Author : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521520287
The Paston family have long been famous for the large collection of letters and papers which bear their name. However, only recently have the 'Paston Letters' been used systematically by historians of fifteenth-century England: they are both attractive to read and fiendishly difficult to use as source material for the historian. This, the second volume in Colin Richmond's individual and compelling study of the Pastons, describes the bitter disputes over the will of Sir John Fastolf (d. 1459) which dogged the family for many years, and which hold a wider significance for the law, English country society, and the complex politics of the fifteenth century. Professor Richmond uses his mastery of the Paston documents to illuminate many obscurities surrounding the will, and at the same time creates an insightful and sympathetic picture of this fascinating, often troubled family.
Author : Robert R. Raymo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442659149
The allegories of the virtues and vices were a common teaching tool in the Middle Ages for both religious and lay audiences to learn the basic tenets of the Christian faith. The Mirroure of the Worlde makes available for the first time the unique text in the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS. Bodley 283, which is among the last and largest works in the tradition of lay religious instruction mandated by the Fourth Lateran Council. The Mirroure is derived from conflations of the Miroir du Monde and the Somme le Roi, both vernacular treatises on vices and virtues compiled in Northeast France in the thirteenth century. Translated into Middle English by, it is believed, Stephen Scrope, the foremost English translator of the mid-fifteenth century, this edition is one of the only books of virtues and vices that contains Latin text, an inclusion that points towards a more widespread knowledge of the language among the laypeople than previously thought. Complete with explanatory notes and a glossary, The Mirroure of the Worlde widens the understanding of medieval moral instruction, religion, reading practices, and education.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : John Somer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820320922
John Somer was one of the leading English astronomers of the late fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer likely consulted Somer’s Kalendarium to relate dates, times, and movements of the stars and planets to events in his tales. In her introduction to this scholarly edition, Linne Mooney discusses not only Somer’s importance but also Chaucer’s use of the Kalendarium in composing his texts from The Parliament of Fowls through The Canterbury Tales. She examines the thirty-three complete and nine fragmentary copies of the work known today and explains Somer’s innovative and influential eclipse tables, adopted by some scribes in later copies of the Kalendarium of Nicholas of Lynn, a contemporary of Somer’s. Somer’s Kalendarium itself is presented in the original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Mooney also provides full textual apparatus for the eleven complete manuscripts closest to the base text.