De scientia Dei (On God's Knowledge) is one of the few major texts by John Wyclif that has not already been published. According to John A. Robson, the De scientia Dei is 'in some way, the most import ... Read more
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Provides a significant new interpretation of the life and reign of this controversial King
Sets Edward VIII in the context of Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century
Moves away from t ... Read more
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Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church b ... Read more
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Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating ... Read more
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The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice
Offers an original interpretation of a fundamental period in the history of English law
Treats law not as an isolat ... Read more
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There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance ... Read more
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In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages i ... Read more
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Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of an extremely important and somewhat neglected figure in British life. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) was somewhat overshadowed by his wife, ... Read more
Offers the definitive study on the re-discovered da Vinci masterpiece, Salvator Mundi, the world's most expensive painting Recounts the story of the painting's modern-day discovery and restoration Del ... Read more
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It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" ... Read more
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