Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300074482

The first major biography of its subject in more than thirty years makes use of new British manuscript sources to draw a rich portrait of Henry VIII's archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the Reformation. UP.

The Personal Rule of Charles I

The Personal Rule of Charles I
Author: Kevin Sharpe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 1996-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300065961

This authoritative reevaluation of Charles' personal rule yields new insights into his character, reign, politics, religion, foreign policy and finance. In doing so, the book offers a vivid new perspective on the origins of the English Civil War.

England's Long Reformation

England's Long Reformation
Author: Nicholas Tyacke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135360944

These essays examine the long-term impact of the Protestant reformation in England. This text should be of interest to historians of early modern England and reformation studies.

English Reformations

English Reformations
Author: Christopher Haigh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 381
Release: 1993
Genre: England
ISBN: 0198221622

English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explorethe religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Dr Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenthcentury as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of earlier religious changes. This is a scholarly and stimulating book, which challenges traditional ideas about the Reformation and offers a powerful and convincing alternative analysis.

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1066-1300: Monastic cathedrals, (Northern and southern provinces) compiled by D. E. Greenway

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1066-1300: Monastic cathedrals, (Northern and southern provinces) compiled by D. E. Greenway
Author: John Le Neve
Publisher: University of London Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1968
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The volumes in this series trace the process of re-organisation and reform that took place in the English cathedrals after the Norman conquest, with the building of new cathedrals, the establishment of new constitutions for their chapters, and the appointment of foreign clergy. In this period, when many documents are undated, the chronological framework provided by the careers of bishops, dignitaries, canons and cathedral priors, is an essential research tool for historians