‎Language‎

‎Petrarch;‎

‎Book Without a Name,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1973 Paperback, 128 p., 140 x 210 mm. ISBN 9780888442604.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39536

‎Eckhart;‎

‎Parisian Questions and Prologues, Translated with an introduction and notes by Armand A. Maurer,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1974 Paperback, 123 pages ., 140 x 210 mm. ISBN 9780888442642.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39539

‎N/A;‎

‎Life of Cola Di Rienzo,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1975 Paperback, 166 pages., 140 x 210 mm. ISBN 9780888442673.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39541

‎Peter Abelard;‎

‎Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew, and a Christian,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1979 Paperback, 195 p., 140 x 210 mm. ISBN 9780888442697.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39543

‎Thomas Aquinas;‎

‎On the Supreme Good. On the Eternity of the World. On Dreams,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1987 Paperback, 165 p., 140 x 210 mm. ISBN 9780888442826.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39546

‎N/A;‎

‎Letters of Gregory the Great Volume 1: Books 1-4; Volume 2: Books 5-9; Volume 3: Books 10-14,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Paperback, XXXIV+996 p., 155 x 230 mm. Languages : English. ISBN 9780888442901.‎

‎This translation of the Registrum epistularum of Gregory the Great, the first complete version in English, and only the second in any modern language, will provide all medievalists access to one of the most important documentary collections to have survived from the period. All fourteen books of the letters are presented in three volumes, each with a preface of its own but sharing the introduction found in the first volume. Books 1-4 appear in volume 1, Books 5-9 in the second volume, and Books 10-14 (and appendices) in the concluding volume, which also contains a glossary, bibliography, and indices. The Introduction provides a brief biography of Gregory and discussions of the historical background, as well as detailed exposition of a range of topics, from Gregory's missions and his relationship with Augustine of Canterbury, to the pope's major correspondents and his use of Scripture. A section on the stylistic features of the letters shows the range of Gregory's literary and rhetorical art.‎

Bookseller reference : 39561

‎P. Lombard;‎

‎Sentences - Book 1: The Mystery of the Trinity,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Paperback, LVIII+278 p., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9780888442925.‎

‎Peter Lombard's major work, the four books of the Sentences, was written in the mid twelfth century, and as early as the 1160s, the text was glossed and commented on in the schools. There is hardly a theologian of note throughout the rest of the Middle Ages who did not write a commentary on the Sentences. Yet in spite of its importance in Western intellectual history and its capacity to excite many generations of students and teachers, the Sentences has received little attention in more recent times. Indeed, it has been called 'one of the least read of the world's great books'. This volume makes available for the first time in English a full translation of Book 1 of the Sentences. It consists of forty-eight Distinctions, the bulk of which deal with God in his transcendence and with the mystery of the Trinity. The person of God the Father is the topic in Distinction iv, that of God the Son in v-ix, that of God the Holy Spirit in x-xviii. Distinctions xix-xxxiv are deeply concerned with the language that can be used in describing the Trinity and the relations among the divine persons. The remaining distinctions deal with the divine attributes as they become manifest in God's action towards creatures. An important concern is the preservation of God's sovereign freedom and the avoidance of any confusion regarding the absolute transcendence of God, despite his graceful self-disclosure in creation and revelation. The volume contains an introduction to Peter and to the Sentences and its first book, a list of the major chapter headings, and a bibliography. Languages : English, Latin.‎

Bookseller reference : 39564

‎Balderich;‎

‎Warrior Bishop of the Twelfth Century The 'Deeds of Albero of Trier', by Balderich,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2008 Paperback, VI+92 p., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9780888442949.‎

‎Balderich's Deeds of Albero offers important insight into the conflicts between church and state during the twelfth century. The Gesta Alberonis records the exploits of Albero von Montreuil (Archbishop of Trier, 1131-1152), portrayed as a daring hero doing battle on behalf of the 'Liberty of the Church'. During the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, political and ecclesiastical rulers alike sought to clarify the responsibilities, rights, and obligations they had in common and those that were unique to their different but related kinds of rule. Balderich opens the Deeds with explicit reference to these struggles for power, which later came to be known as the Investiture Controversy. This conflict between the church and the German emperor centred on the question of control over the appointment of bishops: clergy and princes alternately allied with and fought against one another, seeking to consolidate their respective powers through different structures of governance. As a young cleric in Metz, Albero resisted an imperially appointed bishop. His audacious use of disguise while travelling on secret missions for his church show him to be very much a folk-hero. And once Albero had been appointed archbishop, Balderich characterizes him as the lynchpin in the actions of popes and kings. Albero ensured the election of King Conrad III, and led troops on campaigns in Italy and northern Germany. But it was Albero's rule as prince-bishop that proved paramount. Albero directed the spiritual affairs of the church in Trier while exercising political rule over the principality, and it is this aspect that is Balderich's principal focus, and which makes the Deeds the remarkable document that it is. Languages : English, Latin.‎

Bookseller reference : 39566

‎Geoffrey of Vinsauf; / Nima / Camargo‎

‎Poetria nova, Revised edition, Geoffrey of Vinsauf‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Paperback, VI+96 PAGES ., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9780888442994.‎

‎The medieval literary heritage is inextricably connected with the theory and practice of rhetoric. Rhetoric provided not only a technical repertoire but informed the very habits of mind of medieval writers and readers. Among the many rhetorical treatises of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Poetria nova holds an especially important place. When this translation by Margaret Frances Nims was published in 1967, scholarship on the Poetria nova had yet to progress much beyond the point to which Edmond Faral had brought it in his 1924 edition of the Latin text. Since then, the theory and practice of medieval rhetoric have claimed a space within the broader historiography of rhetoric, and the Poetria nova has benefitted from this development at multiple levels. There are excellent studies that focus on specific features of the work's teaching, place it in relation to the other 'arts of poetry' or, more accurately, 'arts of poetry and prose' composed between the late twelfth and the fourteenth centuries, and situate that genre within the context of medieval rhetoric as a whole. In a new introduction written especially for this revised edition, Martin Camargo surveys and critically analyzes these developments. He has also added explanatory and textual notes, and emended the translation where necessary. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39573

‎N/A;‎

‎Mediaeval Studies 69 (2007),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2008 Paperback, IV+327 p., 170 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780888446718.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39685

‎N/A;‎

‎Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Paperback, XX+300 p., 170 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780888446732.‎

‎Texts ARSENIO FERRACES RODRIGUEZ, 'Remedia Bodleiana de taxone: Una retractacion cristiana de la epistola de Hiparco a Octavio sobre el tejon'; DARREN HOPKINS, 'Le salut d'Enfer: A Short Satire Modelled on Raoul de Houdenc's Songe d'Enfer'. Articles MICHAEL E. MARMURA, 'Avicenna on Meno's Paradox: On "Apprehending" Unknown Things through Known Things'; A. B. KRAEBEL, 'Grammatica and the Authenticity of the Psalms-Commentary Attributed to Bruno the Carthusian'; MICHAEL McVAUGH, 'Towards a Stylistic Grouping of the Translations of Gerard of Cremona'; PETER GODMAN, 'The World of the Archpoet'; F. N. M. DIEKSTRA, 'Confessor and Penitent: Robert de Sorbon and the Cura animarum'; MARTIN HOWLEY, 'Relics at Glastonbury Abbey in the Thirteenth Century: The Relic List in Cambridge, Trinity College R.5.33 (724), fols. 104r?105v'; MARY DZON, 'Cecily Neville and the Apocryphal Infantia salvatoris in the Middle Ages'. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39687

‎N/A;‎

‎Mediaeval Studies General Index, volumes 1-25 (1939-1963),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1964 Paperback, 208 p., 170 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780888446251.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39689

‎N/A;‎

‎Mediaeval Studies Second Supplement Index, volumes 31-40 (1969-1978),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1985 Paperback, 168 p., 170 x 255 mm. ISBN 9780888446480.‎

‎Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39691

‎P. Gwynne;‎

‎Poets and Princes The Panegyric Poetry of Johannes Michael Nagonius,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, XXIV+552 p., 30 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 4 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503531601.‎

‎Poets and Princes offers a richly textured interdisciplinary survey of late medieval and early Renaissance court cultures across Europe as they are reflected in the neo-Latin verse of the itinerant poet, Johannes Michael Nagonius. Poets and Princes offers a richly textured interdisciplinary survey of late medieval and early Renaissance court cultures across Europe as they are reflected in the neo-Latin verse of the itinerant poet, Johannes Michael Nagonius. In 1496 the poet laureate Nagonius presented Henry VII with a manuscript of Latin panegyric poetry. This elaborate diplomatic gift from Pope Alexander VI solicited the King's support against Charles VIII of France. The verse emphasized the mutual benefit of an alliance: if Henry supported him the Pope would acknowledge disputed Tudor claims to England's throne. For Henry, the gift represented a literary and political coup. With all the rhetorical skill of a learned poet, Nagonius presented the King as a classical hero on an epic scale in the latest Italian style. The work thus acknowledged Henry's international significance. Other recipients of Nagonius's panegyric verse include Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Vladislav II of Bohemia, Louis XII of France, Doge Leonardo Loredan, the condottieri Niccolo Orsini and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Giovanni Bentivoglio, lord of Bologna, and Duke Ercole d'Este of Ferrara. The presentation of a deluxe manuscript to Julius II, celebrating the pontiff 's campaign in the Romagna, marked the climax of the poet's career. This analysis of the life and works of Nagonius thus provides a fascinating insight into the world of late medieval and early Renaissance court cultures. It contributes to the growing field of neo-Latin scholarship, examining the manuscripts and para-texts, studying the relationship between volume and dedicatee, placing these manuscripts within the wider literary and artistic cultures of the courts where they were presented, and investigating the role of neo-Latin verse within court cultures. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39696

‎A. Buckley, D. Billy (eds.);‎

‎Etudes de langue et de litterature medievales offertes a Peter T. Ricketts a l'occasion de son 70eme anniversaire,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Paperback, XIV+744 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503516400.‎

‎Peter T. Ricketts, Honorary Professor of French at the University of Birmingham, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London, has led a long and distinguished career in the field of Romance Philology, and in Occitan studies in particular. In addition to his leading role in the Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (AIEO), he has devoted many years in the service of Occitan Studies. Peter T. Ricketts is perhaps especially noted for an in-progress edition (with Cyril P. Hershon) of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud, and for the Concordance of Medieval Occitan (CMO), a vast database the aim of which is to document the entire corpus of medieval Occitan texts and to make them available in electronic format as an active and exhaustive working tool for all scholars in the field. The first tranche of this project, on the poetry of the troubadours (Brepols 2001), has already been received with wide critical acclaim. The present publication includes articles by 63 specialists in fields as wide-ranging as history, literature, linguistics, philology, musicology, metrics and philosophy, addressing sources and topics from a variety of provenances in Old French and Old Occitan, as also in Medieval Latin, Castilian, Catalan, Middle High German, Hispano-Arabic, and Hebrew. It is divided into two major sections. The first is concerned with narrative texts: romance, epic, and religious literature; the second with the poetry of the troubadours: firstly their lyric legacy, its sources and influences, the vidas which accompany their transmission, the troubadours themselves, but also instances of their non-lyric output such as proverbs and ensenhamens. Also among the articles are editions of texts, some hitherto unpublished. Taken together, this collection represents a very broad panorama of current research, and offers a major contribution to the advancement of Medieval Studies. " Honorary Professor " de Francais a l'Universite de Birmingham, et Professeur Emerite a Queen Mary and Westfield, Universite de Londres, Peter T. Ricketts a mene une carriere longue et remarquable dans le domaine de la Philologie Romane, et dans les etudes occitanes en particulier. Outre son role majeur dans l'animation de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (AIEO), Peter T. Ricketts a consacre de nombreuses annees aux etudes occitanes. Son ?uvre est plus specialement marquee par l'edition encore inachevee (avec Cyril P. Hershon) du Breviari d'Amor de Matfre Ermengaud, et l'elaboration de la Concordance de l'Occitan Medieval (COM), vaste banque de donnees appelee a terme a couvrir l'ensemble des textes occitans du moyen age et mettant a la disposition des chercheurs un outil de travail exhaustif et performant. La publication de la premiere tranche consacree a la poesie des troubadours (Brepols 2001) a deja recueilli un accueil tres favorable de la critique. Le present recueil de Melanges reunit les travaux de 63 specialistes de la litterature medievale, dans des domaines aussi varies que l'histoire, la litterature, la linguistique, la philologie, la musicologie, la metrique ou la philosophie, explorant des materiaux et des sources de diverses provenances, en ancien francais et en ancien occitan, mais aussi en latin medieval, castillan, catalan, moyen-haut-allemand, hispano-arabe, hebreux. L'ouvrage est divise en deux sections principales, la premiere etant consacree aux textes non lyriques : roman, epopee et litterature religieuse, la seconde a la poesie des troubadours, soit naturellement a leur production lyrique, a ses sources et son influence, aux vidas qui accompagnent leur transmission, aux troubadours eux-memes, mais aussi a leur production non lyrique tels que textes proverbiaux et ensenhamens. Ces Melanges incluent egalement quelques editions de textes, quelquefois inedits. Leur ensemble constitue un panorama tres complet des recherches actuelles, avec des avancees capitale dans le domaine des etudes medievales. Languages : French, Occitan.‎

Bookseller reference : 39865

‎T. de Hemptinne, V. Fraeters, M. E. Gongora Diaz (eds.);‎

‎Speaking to the Eye Sight and Insight through Text and Image (1150-1650),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 Hardback, approx. X+298 p., 37 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503534206.‎

‎This volume takes as its focus the paradoxical double-bind of textuality and visuality in the culture of the high and late Middle Ages and early modernity. In a series of case studies contributors explore the historical and theoretical implications of the idea that texts and images alike ?speak to the eye?. Some scholars have proclaimed the coming of a ?visual turn? to explain the boom in conferences, books, and even specialized journals that take as their topic the theoretical or historical study of visual culture. The notion of visual culture may seem self-evident, not merely from our own twenty-first-century perspective but also when applied to earlier periods of western European history. However, the nature and status of the visual media, as well as the ways in which these were received, experienced, and appropriated, underwent several major changes between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries. Contemporary sources describe and define the experience of reading texts and images as involving a mixture of visual and aural impulses that address both the inner eye and the outer senses. This volume sets out explicitly to investigate the specific, sensuous nature of this experience. It also addresses the question of whether, and if so to what extent and in which ways, this ?reading experience? was engendered. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39878

‎A. Berteloot, G. Claassens, W. Kuiper (eds.);‎

‎Petrus Naghel Gulden Legende De Middelnederlandse vertaling van de 'Legenda aurea' door Petrus Naghel, uitgegeven naar handschrift Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 15140. Deel II,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, 621 pages ., 156 x 234 mm. deel 2 only ISBN 9782503542720.‎

‎The importance of the Legenda aurea for the Late Middle Ages can hardly be overestimated, as witness the impressive manuscript tradition of the original Latin text as well the different vernacular versions. This huge hagiographic collection, organised per circulum anni, can be considered as a compendium of the medieval religious worldview: it offers insights into the (deuterocanonic) tradition of the New Testament, the lives and deaths of the most important saints, the history of the church of Rome, and it can be read as a catechism in narrative form. But the Legenda aurea is also a treasure-trove of stories, motifs and themes splendidly reflecting medieval mentality in its entirety. The influence of the Legenda aurea on literature and iconography is so far-reaching, that the book is an indispensable aid for the 'reading' of countless medieval texts, paintings and sculptures. The text was translated several times into Middle Dutch and of the first southern Dutch translation (ca. 1357), made by Petrus Naghel (? 1395) in the Charterhouse of Herne, a modern edition is now available. This edition of the Gulden legende - the second volume of a set of two - contains the legends of Pope Urban to the Feast of Church Dedication, and carries a concise introduction. The first volume of the set will appear in print in 2013; it contains the remaining legends and an expansive introduction comprising an introduction of text and translator, a description of the manuscript used for the edition, a statement of editorial policy and indices of names. Het belang van de Legenda aurea in de late Middeleeuwen kan moeilijk overschat worden, getuige de indrukwekkende handschriftelijke overlevering van zowel de oorspronkelijke Latijnse tekst als van de verschillende volkstalige versies. Deze omvangrijke hagiografische verzameling, georganiseerd per circulum anni, kan beschouwd worden als een compendium van het middeleeuwse religieuze wereldbeeld: het biedt inzicht in de (deuterocanonieke) traditie van het Nieuwe Testament, het leven en sterven van de belangrijkste heiligen, de geschiedenis van de Kerk van Rome en het kan gelezen worden als een catechismus in narratieve vorm. Maar de Legenda aurea is ook een schatkamer van verhalen, motieven en themata waarin de gehele middeleeuwse mentaliteit een schitterende weerspiegeling vindt. De invloed van de Legenda aurea op de literatuur en de beeldende kunsten is zo verregaand dat het boek een onmisbaar hulpmiddel is voor het ?lezen? van talloze middeleeuwse teksten, schilderijen en sculpturen. De tekst werd meermaals in het Middelnederlands vertaald en van de eerste, Zuidnederlandse vertaling, rond 1357 vervaardigd door de Hernse kartuizer Petrus Naghel (?1395) is nu een kritische uitgave beschikbaar. Deze editie van de Gulden legende - het tweede deel van wat een tweedelige uitgave wordt - bevat de legenden van paus Urbanus tot en met Kerkwijding, en wordt voorafgegaan door een beknopte inleiding. Het eerste deel zal volgens plan in 2013 verschijnen en de resterende legenden bevatten, maar ook een uitvoerige inleiding met, onder andere, een introductie van tekst en vertaler, een beschrijving van het gebruikte basishandschrift, editieprincipes en indices op namen. Languages : Dutch, Middle Dutch.‎

Bookseller reference : 39880

‎C. Galderisi (ed.);‎

‎Translations medievales. Cinq siecles de traductions en francais au Moyen Age (XIe-XVe siecles ). Etude et Repertoire SET volumes I et II,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, 3 volumes, 2191 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528335.‎

‎Translations medievales : cinq siecles de traductions en francais (xie-xve siecle) a ete elabore par trois laboratoires francais : Centre d'Etudes Superieures de Civilisation Medievale (CNRS - Universite de Poitiers) ; Etudes et editions de textes du Moyen Age (CNRS - Universite de la Sorbonne) ; Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS Paris) - associes sous la direction du CESCM dans un projet qui a ete officiellement reconnu par l'Agence National de la Recherche (ANR). Les clercs medievaux ont sauvegarde tout un pan des savoirs du passe, en les copiant dans les premiers siecles, puis en les translatant en latin, et dans les langues vernaculaires a partir du XIe siecle. Mais on ne connaissait pas jusqu'ici la veritable penetration de ces textes, leur diffusion, leur influence sur la langue et la culture francaises. On connaissait moins encore l'impact des autres langues vernaculaires sur les langues gallo-romanes et sur la langue d'oil en particulier ; on savait tres peu de l'interpenetration entre langue d'oc et langue d'oil. On ne possedait pas une vue d'ensemble sur les traductions concernant les sciences. C'est de ce constat d'insuffisance, de cette conscience que par-dela ce qui a ete sans doute definitivement perdu, le premier obstacle a la comprehension de la genese de la culture et de la sciences francaises, et dans une certaine mesure de l'Europe occidentale, venait de la segmentation des informations dont dispose la communaute scientifique, qu'est ne le projet de mettre en reseau les connaissances individuelles et disciplinaires. Transmedie est un corpus bibliographique et analytique des traductions dans les langues gallo-romanes qui propose a travers son repertoire, se trois annexes et son volume d'eclairages critiques une histoire pratiques et des theories de la traduction. Le corpus bibliographique recense, ordonne et etudie les informations philologiques sur les oeuvres traduites en francais entre le XIe et le XVe siecle. Tous les domaines de la civilisation antique et medievale sont concernes par le corpus : droit, grammaire, hagiographie, histoire, litterature, philosophie, science, theologie. Plus de 1 200 oeuvres-sources, relevant d'une dizaine de langues de l'Atlantique et du Haut et du Bas Moyen Age, environ 2 800 traductions, une dizaine de milliers de references bibliographique concernant les manuscrits, plus de 600 incunables medievaux, ont ainsi ete etudies et classes par des specialistes francais et internationaux. L'histoire de ces translations ainsi que celle non moins interessante de la traduction empechee, que le repertoire dessine en creux, permet egalement de mieux eclairer par-dela les frontieres des langues les caracteristiques des autres idiomes et cultures medievales. Car, comme le rappelle Derrida, ? Traduire, au Moyen Age comme aujourd'hui, signifie avant tout ecrire, et ecrire au seuil de deux monolinguismes ? . Sans l'expliciter vraiment, les ecrivains medievaux reflechissent deja a la question que posera quelques siecles plus tard Walter Benjamin : ? une traduction peut-elle etre faite pour les lecteurs qui ne comprennent pas l'original ? Ceux qui s'etaient imagines en nains juches sur les epaules de ces geants de l'Atlantique qu'ils translataient n'ont certes pas pousse si loin la provocation, mails ils se sont interroges sur le sens et la portee de la translatio, sur sa necessite et sa gratuite, sur ses beneficiaires directes et indirectes, sur la difficulte d'un ars qui est deja un opus. La logique dont s'inspire Transmedie est la meme, mais l'ordre du processus est inverse : le trois volets du projet (volume d'etudes, corpus et base en ligne) constitueront le socle sur lequel pourra s'edifier d'une maniere plus ample la connaissance progressive de la translatio studii. Languages : French, Latin.‎

Bookseller reference : 39882

‎W. Blockmans, A. Janse (eds.);‎

‎Showing Status Representation of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 1999 Hardback, X+492 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503507668.‎

‎This publication brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. The premise of the volume is that medieval social change may only be fully understood if hierarchies of wealth and power are examined alongside literary and artistic sources. Medieval texts and material culture expressed social standing and gave meaning to the experience of social change. The aim of the study is to recognise and translate the language of symbols used to encode and display status in the late Middle Ages. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39884

‎J. Adams, K. Holman (eds.);‎

‎Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350 Contact, conflict and co-existence,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Hardback, XXII+369 p., 60 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510859.‎

‎This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods; (ii) by examining the ways in which mainland Europe influenced Scandinavia (e.g. kingship, law and social organisation; and classical and continental literary traditions); and (iii) by synthesising all the material for an English-language readership for the first time. The broader timespan of investigation illustrates the changing nature of contact and the gradual integration of Scandinavia into European society: by 1350 Scandinavia was no longer a heathen outpost on the periphery of the known world, but an integral part of Western Christendom. The cultural impact of mainland Europe on Scandinavia, frequently mediated through religious channels, although less dramatic, is shown to have had a more significant long-term impact than the earlier viking raids. The volume is structured around the following sections: Historical and Archaeological Evidence for [Scandinavian] Contact with the British Isles; Evidence for the Linguistic Impact of Scandinavian Settlement; Evidence for the Impact of Christianity on Scandinavia; Textual Evidence for Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39886

‎B. Bandlien;‎

‎Strategies of Passion Love and Marriage in Medieval Iceland and Norway,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Hardback, XIV+345 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503521633.‎

‎This book is concerned with the social and gendered meanings of love in medieval Norway and Iceland. In the Viking Age, to love would most often imply a submissive social position, while being loved by a woman could elevate a man above the status of her family. Women were supposed to love upwards in the social hierarchy, but could also use their desire to negotiate the social position of men. A close reading of the skaldic poetry shows the dilemma men faced when longing for women's love and approval. These ideas of love relations shaped Norse interpretations of courtly love and marriage formation by consent in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, new ideas of sexuality, gender and aristocratic culture changed several aspects of love and marital affection in the later middle ages. Men became the loving subject, but in a way that did not challenge the social order. For women, ideal love was attached to humility and submission to parents and husband. But even though the new ideology of love and marriage to some extent neutralized the tensions between consent and parental control, the sources show that both men and women could use the new conceptions of love to serve their own marital and social strategies. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39888

‎A. Mand;‎

‎Urban Carnival Festive Culture in the Hanseatic Cities of the Eastern Baltic, 1350-1550,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Hardback, XXVI+374 p., 17 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503515212.‎

‎This is a significant new study of the festival culture of northern Europe in the later Middle Ages: more specifically of the German-speaking communities of the great cities of the eastern Baltic littoral in what was then called Livonia, corresponding roughly to the territories of present-day Estonia and Latvia. While subject to a degree of Scandinavian influence, the festival culture of Livonian cities such as Riga, Reval (Tallinn), and Dorpat (Tartu), which were members of the Hanseatic League, substantially overlapped with that of other German-speaking areas, not least the Hanseatic cities of northern Germany. The major part of the book is devoted to the main annual festivals of the merchants' guilds: Christmas, Carnival, the popinjay shoot, and the May Count celebrations. There follows an analysis of specific aspects of the festivals: spatial contexts, finances, food and drink, entertainments (dances, jousts, games), customs and rituals. There is also a concluding glance at changes in festival culture after the Reformation. The study combines close scrutiny of local customs (made possible by the almost miraculous survival of uniquely detailed documentation), contextualization within the wider comparative context of festival culture in late-medieval Europe, and an alterness to significant recent scholarship in both English and German. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39897

‎W. Scase (ed.);‎

‎Essays in Manuscript Geography, Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XII+296 p., 16 b/w ill., 1 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503516950.‎

‎The medieval English West Midlands has long been associated with the production of vernacular texts, in Old and Middle English, and with the making of several famous manuscripts. The aim of this volume is to re-think assumptions about medieval literature and the region in the light of new research in medieval book history. A series of specially commissioned essays in 'manuscript geography' examines the making and use of texts and books in relation to cultural networks in the region and beyond. Included are case studies of manuscripts of Worcester and the Worcester diocese from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; investigations of manuscript production in fourteenth-century Shropshire and its wider regional links; and essays on textual cultures in Warwickshire from the activities of the aristocrats and gentry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the projects of later antiquarians. Essays in the final section of the volume reflect on the possibilities of large-scale, corpus-based research on medieval manuscript books. Collectively the essays identify and explore some of the investments of traditional regionalist accounts of vernacular literary culture and model new theoretical and methodological approaches. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39902

‎E. Strietman, P. Happe (eds.);‎

‎Urban Theatre in the Low Countries 1400-1625,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XII+320 p., 67 b/w ill., 2 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503517001.‎

‎This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Reflecting social, religious, and economic realities at a time of fundamental change, the Rhetoricians' plays also reveal a range of poetic and theatrical conventions that make them an important source of information both on practical stagecraft and on the role of theatre in the urban community, as seen in their involvement in civic processions or the organization of drama competitions. The volume sets the Rhetoricians' drama in the cultural life of the provinces of the Low Countries during a period dominated by ruling foreign dynasties: the Burgundian dukes and then the Habsburg dynasty, most prominently the Emperor Charles V and his son King Philip II of Spain. It was a time of intense religious controversy which gave rise to debates both on and off stage. These debates, far from damaging Rhetorician culture, actually stimulated its activities and development to such an extent that Rhetoricians became representative voices for their time. The admixture of entertainment and education offered by the Chambers to their own members - and to a wider public - was one which, though originating in a medieval context, soon became linked with humanist and Renaissance thinking. This volume illustrates how, as a consequence, the Chambers of Rhetoric contributed to the development in the Low Countries of an increasingly articulate society. Languages : English.‎

Bookseller reference : 39904

‎D. Crouch, K. Thompson (eds.);‎

‎Normandy and its Neighbours, 900-1250 Essays for David Bates,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, XXIV+310 p., 3 b/w ill., 1 b/w tables, 2 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503520629.‎

‎One of the most important aspects of David Bates's distinguished career has been his readiness to engage ' as few of his predecessors did ' with the world of modern French scholarship. The outcome of this engagement and of his familiarity with French archives has been the reshaping of our understanding of the Anglo-Norman realm founded by William the Conqueror. The Norman Conquest has always been seen as a defining event in medieval English history, and David's work has enabled us to place it in its broader European context. He has also welcomed insights from other disciplines, including archaeology, architectural history, and numismatics. His impact as a scholar has been profound. His writings have made academic debate accessible to the general public and the scholar alike, and he has conveyed his enthusiasm and commitment to both. He has brought together a generation of academics of various nationalities and from a broad range of disciplines to forge a new understanding of the relationship of England and Normandy in the central Middle Ages. This collection ' offered in recognition of his contribution ' acknowledges the many strands of his scholarship. It brings together specialist studies of Anglo-French culture, law, gender, and historiography. Languages : English, French.‎

Bookseller reference : 39906