Itineraries [of] William Worcestre
Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
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Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
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Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,10 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 : 14,35 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 : William Worcester
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Somer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,64 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.
Author : Bodleian Library Staff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802036131
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.
Author : William Worcester
Publisher : Bristol Record Society
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bristol (England)
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Author : Alfred Hiatt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802089519
In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Hiatt discusses the impact of the advent of humanism on the acceptance of forgeries and stresses the importance of documents to medieval culture, offering a discussion of the relation of the various versions of the chronicle of John Hardyng to the documents he forged, as well as documents pertaining to the charters of Crowland Abbey and various bulls and charters connected with the University of Cambridge. A considerable portion of the book concerns the Donation of Constantine, which involves many continental writers, German, French, and Italian. The Making of Medieval Forgeries further discusses the 'multiplicity of audiences' for forgeries: those that produce, those that approve, and those that are hostile.
Author : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : 9780719059902
This is the third and final volume in the trilogy by Colin Richmond on the Paston family in the 15th century, completing the sequence which began with The First Phase and continued with Fastolf's Will. This volume deals with the later years of the century and those topics and themes which arise at that point in the family's history. The principal characters are John Paston II, his younger brother John Paston III, and their mother, Margaret Paston. Richmond deals with a variety of issues, some of which have arisen in previous volumes and attempts some judgements on the role of the English gentry in the later middle ages.