The Life Of King Edward Who Rests At Westminster

Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198202032

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The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster by Frank Barlow Pdf

The anonymous Life of King Edward written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provides a fascinating account of Edward the Confessor and his family, including his wife Edith, his father-in-law Earl Godwin, and the queen's brothers Tostig and Harold (who became king in 1066). The foundations of the legend of St. Edward the Confessor are apparent from the version of the work supplied by the unique manuscript of circa 1100. Barlow explores the problems raised by this anonymous and now incomplete manuscript and examines the development of the cult of St. Edward. He also investigates the life and works of Goscelin of St. Bertin, a possible author. For this second edition, Barlow has not only undertaken a complete revision of the book, but recent discoveries have enabled him to reconstruct in part the lacunae in BL Harley MS 526 with texts closer to the original.

Author : Frank BARLOW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1128413057

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The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster, Attributed to a Monk at St. Bertin by Frank BARLOW Pdf

Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0177110546

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The Life of King Edward by Frank Barlow Pdf

Author : Textbook Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758178670

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The Life of King Edward, Who Rests at Westminster by Textbook Publishers Pdf

Author : Dyan Elliot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0691010889

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Spiritual Marriage by Dyan Elliot Pdf

"As a paradigm patterned after the chaste union of Mary and Joseph, spiritual marriage upheld Christian doctrine; as a spontaneous practice, however, it aroused the suspicion of the very church authorities who extolled its virtues. Through this union women could achieve a measure of spiritual and physical autonomy, which threatened not only their husbands' authority but also that of the clergy. Elliott shows how spiritual marriage could be manipulated by male-dominated institutions as well: it enabled early medieval kings to mask their unilateral repudiation of infertile wives, the church to establish the roots of a ritually pure priesthood, and the late medieval clergy to underline female submission to patriarchal authorities. Far from being a curiosity peripheral to the study of Christian sexuality, spiritual marriage emerges as far-reaching in its implications and long-lasting in its influences."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Emma Mason
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153968

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Westminster Abbey and Its People, C.1050-c.1216 by Emma Mason Pdf

This book surveys the monastic community at Westminster from the time when Edward the Confessor 1042-1066] adopted it as his burial church down to the end of the reign of king John. Originating according to legend during the Roman occupation, the West Minster was converted from a little collegiate church into a Benedictine monastery around 970. However, the growth of its significance largely dates from its massive endowment by king Edward, who commissioned a lavish rebuilding of the abbey church, a focal point in his programme of monarchical propaganda. Dr Mason covers every aspect of the abbey community in detail examining the careers of the abbots and priors, whilst ensuring that lesser figures are not neglected: monks; craftsmen; lay servants; the personnel of the royal court who were closely associated with the abbey. The author also considers the community's dealings with the growing ecclesiastical bureaucracy; the management of its properties, including its parochial churches; and its relationship with other religious houses. Dr EMMA MASON teaches in the Department of History, Birkbeck College.

Author : Tom Licence
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300211542

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Edward the Confessor by Tom Licence Pdf

An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Karen A. Winstead,Alan Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198707035

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The Oxford History of Life-writing by Karen A. Winstead,Alan Stewart Pdf

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.

Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Ruth Evans,Sarah Salih,Anke Bernau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802086373

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Medieval Virginities by Ruth Evans,Sarah Salih,Anke Bernau Pdf

The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.

Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469218

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She Wolves by Elizabeth Norton Pdf

Some of the queens featured in She Wolves are well known and have been the subject of biography – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example – others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft, murder, adultery and incest, is that because they were notorious they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. She-Wolves reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the evolution of the role that led, ultimately, to the reign of Elizabeth I and a new concept of queenship.

Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker,Maren Clegg Hyer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781783274741

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Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress by Gale R. Owen-Crocker,Maren Clegg Hyer Pdf

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475083

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The Medieval Chronicle III by Anonim Pdf

In the summer of 2002 the third international conference on the medieval chronicle was held, again in the vicinity of Utrecht, the Netherlands. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an international conference. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. This third volume of conference papers again aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843836285

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The Art of Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov Pdf

Providing a fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, this text looks at its influence upon the creation of an identity as a nation.

Author : Emma Mason,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1852853891

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The House of Godwine by Emma Mason,Robert Brink Shoemaker Pdf

Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was married to Harold’s sister Eadgyth, the Godwine family, led by Earl Godwine, had dominated English politics. In The Rise and Fall of the House of Godwine, Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which, until Harold’s unexpected defeat, looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest, an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.