Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony

Frederick S Paxton

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• Around the year 840, Liutbirga, the adopted daughter of a noble Saxon widow, asked to be walled into a cell in a church at one of the family's cloiste... Lees meer

Queenship and Sanctity

Sean Gilsdorf

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• At the dawn of the second millennium, authors from monasteries in Burgundy and northern Germany recorded the lives and deaths of two powerful and piou... Lees meer

Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal

Peter Abelard

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• The romantic tale of Peter Abelard and Heloise has been widely known for centuries. The legend relates in part to the letters exchanged between the tw... Lees meer

The Chronicle of the Czechs

Cosmas of Prauge

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• The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and ... Lees meer

Handbook for William

Dhuoda

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• "I send you this little book written down in my name, that you may read it for your education, as a kind of mirror." So wrote the Frankish noblewoman ... Lees meer

The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna

Agnellus

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• Agnellus' Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna) , written in the ninth century, is an essential source f... Lees meer

Preaching in the Age of Chaucer

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• Introducing modern readers to the riches of preaching in later medieval England, distinguished scholar Siegfried Wenzel offers translations of twenty-... Lees meer

Between God and Man

Innocent

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• When Innocent III became pope in 1198 he announced that he had been elevated to a position "between God and man." This audacious claim has often been ... Lees meer

The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona

Luidprand

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• This modern English translation of all the surviving literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, offers unriva... Lees meer

Handbook for Curates

Guido Of Monte Rochen

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• Guido of Monte Rochen's Handbook for Curates became the most popular pastoral manual at the close of the Middle Ages as thousands of copies were print... Lees meer