Medieval Oxford

Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192801333

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The Oxford History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes Pdf

Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now available in a compact, more convenient format, it offers the same text and many of the illustrations which first appeared in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, the book explores a period of profound diversity and change, focusing on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War. The Oxford History of the Medieval World also examines such intriguing cultural subjects as the chivalric code of knights, popular festivals, and the proliferation of new art forms, and the catastrophic social effect of the Black Death.

Author : Herbert Edward Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : UCAL:B3853067

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Medieval Oxford by Herbert Edward Salter Pdf

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198205023

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England by Nigel Saul Pdf

This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England. Written by expert scholars and drawing on the latest research, it offers an authoritative survey of the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth. The middle ages were a time of profound diversity and change. The main political themes are explored in three narrative chapters, covering the Anglo-Saxon period, the Normans and Angevins, and the late middle ages. Chapters on the social, cultural, and religious life of the period add context tothe political and institutional developments traced and cover topics as varied as the nature of national identity, urban life, art and architecture, religious practice, and the development of vernacular literature. 180 illustrations, maps, family trees, a chronology, guide to further reading, and a full index make this an indispensable guide to England in the middle ages. Contributors... Janet L. Nelson, Professor of History, King's College, London George Garnett, Fellow and Tutor in History, St Hugh's College, Oxford Chris Given-Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of St Andrews Christopher Dyer, Professor of Medieval Social History, University of Birmingham Henrietta Leyser, Lecturer in Medieval History, St Peter's College, Oxford Nicola Coldstream Derek Pearsall, Professor of English, Harvard University

Author : Frederic James Edward Raby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
ISBN : OCLC:252603831

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The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse by Frederic James Edward Raby Pdf

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192893246

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England by Nigel Saul Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.

Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192854356

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes Pdf

'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without loss of accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshingly unhackneyed.' -Times Literary Supplement

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521893984

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Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge by Miri Rubin Pdf

This is a detailed study of the forms in which charitable giving was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, unravelling the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the community offered it.

Author : Alan B. Cobban
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885799

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The Medieval English Universities by Alan B. Cobban Pdf

First published in 1988, this book traces the complex evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the early sixteenth centuries. In the process, the author incorporates new research on Cambridge University that has become available only recently. Alan B. Cobban is able to give an overall view of the functioning of the English universities, touching on the development of the academic hierarchy, the various features of the curriculum and the teaching offered by these institutions. The author also addresses the social and economic circumstances of students and the relations between the universities and their respective town and ecclesiastical authorities. Cobban draws on much recent work to supply new details and altered perspectives in this single-volume reappraisal of the history of these two distinguished educational institutions.

Author : Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker,William Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199229123

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker,William Green Pdf

Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Ælfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Author : Thomas Meacham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501512926

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The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University by Thomas Meacham Pdf

This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.

Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016936

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages by Karen A. Winstead Pdf

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and experimenting with ways to translate lives, their own and others', into literature. Their subjects included career religious, saints, celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets, and even a few 'ordinary people.' They relay life stories not only in chronological narratives, but also in debates, dialogues, visions, and letters. Many medieval biographers relied on the reader's trust in their authority, but some espoused standards of evidence that seem distinctly modern, drawing on reliable written sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts wherever possible. Others still professed allegiance to evidence but nonetheless freely embellished and invented not only events and dialogue but the sources to support them. The first book devoted to life-writing in medieval England, The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages covers major life stories in Old and Middle English, Latin, and French, along with such Continental classics as the letters of Abelard and Heloise and the autobiographical Vision of Christine de Pizan. In addition to the life stories of historical figures, it treats accounts of fictional heroes, from Beowulf to King Arthur to Queen Katherine of Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with, adapting, and expanding the conventions of life writing. Though Medieval life writings can be challenging to read, we encounter in them the antecedents of many of our own diverse biographical forms-tabloid lives, literary lives, brief lives, revisionist lives; lives of political figures, memoirs, fictional lives, and psychologically-oriented accounts that register the inner lives of their subjects.

Author : Patrick McGuinness
Publisher : Real Series
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781726205

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Real Oxford by Patrick McGuinness Pdf

Real Oxford shows that there's more than dreaming spires and bicycles to the city. The grand buildings of the university are here, but Patrick McGuinness charts a personal history of the place which radiates into the suburbs and into the everyday of people's lives, past and present. Surprising, quirky, Real Oxford presents the city anew.

Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521856898

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture by Andrew Galloway Pdf

A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.

Author : Nicola Coldstream
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0192842765

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Medieval Architecture by Nicola Coldstream Pdf

Medieval architecture comprises much more than the traditional image of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry. A great variety of buildings--synagogues, halls, and barns--testify to the diverse communities and interests in western Europe in the centuries between 1150 and 1550. This book looks at their architecture from an entirely fresh perspective, shifting the emphasis away from such areas as France towards the creativity of other regions, including central Europe and Spain. Treating the subject thematically, Coldstream seeks out what all buildings, both religious and secular, have in common, and how they reflect the material and spiritual concerns of the people who built and used them. Furthermore, the author considers how and why, after four centuries of shaping the landscapes and urban patterns of Europe, medieval styles were superseded by classicism.

Author : Ronald H. Fritze,William B. Robison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313011368

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Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485 by Ronald H. Fritze,William B. Robison Pdf

Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.