English Medieval Books

English Medieval Books
Author: Alan Coates
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198207566
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This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.

Ambition and Failure in Stuart England

Ambition and Failure in Stuart England
Author: Ian Atherton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719050916
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The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irène Némirovsky's Suite française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both rapidly translated into English, offer just two examples of this significant phenomenon. Gathering within one volume studies of genres, visual cultures, chronology, narrative theory, and a wealth of narratives in fiction and film, Framing narratives of the Second World War and occupation in France 1939-2009 brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. Now available in paperback, the book includes contributions by William Cloonan, Richard J Golsan, Leah Hewitt, Colin Nettelbeck and Gisèle Sapiro

John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England

John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England
Author: Charles Schmitt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1983-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0773564004
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Dr. Schmitt shows that Case was heir to both the traditions of scholastic interpretation of Aristotle and the new humanistic currents, that his Aristotelianism was strongly eclectic, and that he drew heavily upon Renaissance Neoplatonic and other intellectual traditions in compiling well-rounded philosophical manuals adapted to his age. Schmitt argues that, even though Case was the prime representative of peripatetic thought during Elizabeth's reign, he forged strong links with leading figures in such areas of English culture as drama, literature, art, and music, as well as with important ecclesiastical and political figures. He also contends that Aristotelian philosophy had a much more central position in England than has been previously admitted. Case's position in the scholastic revival which marked late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English intellectual life is charted, and the historical reality of this revival is firmly established.

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
Author: Ted Johnson South
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780859916271
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As well as being a traditional saint's life, this text is also a record of the political activities and property acquisitions of a powerful Anglo-Saxon monastery. It demonstrates the ongoing relationship between the monks and their patron saint.