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		The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople
		Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire		Sandpiper Editions
		Paul J Alexander
		Oxford University Press 2001 304 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198264011
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	The subject of Alexander's study is the Iconoclastic Controversy: the arguments concerning the legitimacy of Christian images that raged in the Byzantine Empire during the 8th and 9th centuries. The Controversy is studied through the Emperor Nicephorus, who became Patriarch of Constantinople in 806. As well as providing a complete picture of the issues involved in the struggle over religious images in his own Refutatio et Eversio and other writings, Nicephorus was almost alone in preserving documents of the Iconoclasts. The volume includes a paraphrase of Nicephorus' (unpublished) Refutatio et Eversio. (1958)
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		St Edmund of Abingdon
		A Study in Hagiography and History		Sandpiper Editions
		CH Lawrence
		Oxford University Press 1999 339 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198212755
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	St Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. He is also the first member of the nascent university about whom anything considerable is known and an important figure in late 12th century political history. This study of the literary sources for Edmund's life presents a scrutiny of the primary texts - the Quadrilogus (from the canonization process), the Lives by Eustace of Faversham and Matthew Paris, the letters of postulation - and their relation to each other and to other Lives. Texts in Latin. (1960)
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		The Loss of Normandy
		1198-1204: Studies in the History of the Angevin Empire		Sandpiper Editions
		Sir Maurice Powicke
		Manchester University Press 1999 448 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 071905740X
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	In the early years of the 13th century, after three centuries of independence, Normandy fell to Philip Augustus of France. An advanced and self-sufficient state with good resources, a tradition of unity and an elaborate system of government, Normandy proved unable to protect itself against the French king. Focusing on this crisis in the reigns of Richard I and John, Powicke uses surviving sources to study a medieval state in action, to understand its military organisation, and to estimate the influence of personal and impersonal forces. (1913. Revised 1960)
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		Heresy in the Later Middle Ages
		The Relation of Heterodoxy to Dissent c1250-c1450		Sandpiper Editions
		Gordon Leff
		Manchester University Press 1999 800 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0719057434
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	In this history of heretical movements in medieval Europe, Leff's major premise is that 'heresy, far from being alien to Christian society, had its source in the tensions between Christian precept and religious practice.' With emphasis on the medieval outlook, the place of heretical beliefs within the intellectual and spiritual climate, and the role of heresy as 'the outlet of a society with no outlets', Leff examines the Franciscan disputes over the poverty of Christ; the prophecy of Joachim de Fiore; the mysticism of Meister Eckhart, Ockhamism and the Free Spirit; and the popular movements led by Wyclif and Hus. (1967)
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		Six Byzantine Portraits
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		Dimitri Obolensky
		Oxford University Press 1999 240 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198219512
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	In a biographical sequel to 'The Byzantine Commonwealth', Obolensky assesses the contribution of six outstanding personalities to the Byzantine international community between the 9th and 16th centuries: Clement of Ohrid, Theophylact of Ohrid, Vladimir Monomakh, Sava of Serbia, Cyprian of Kiev and Moscow, and Maximos the Greek. These men all belonged simultaneously to the Greek and Slav worlds and acted as bridges between the two. The study of their achievements and failures offers insights both into their individual roles in Byzantine cultural history and into the cosmopolitan Eastern Europe in which they lived. (1988)
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		The Italian Crusades
		The Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades against Christian Lay		Sandpiper Editions
		Norman Housley
		Oxford University Press 1999 303 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198219253
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	First published in 1982, this was the first detailed account of the crusades launched by the popes against their political opponents in the West. Drawing on contemporary sources, Housley analyzes the arguments used to justify the crusades and examines the papal crusade policy in practice; he describes how the crusades were preached and organised, and assesses the popular response to the preaching. He also looks in depth at the complex issue of financing the crusades, the sources of revenue and the problems of crusade taxation. (1982)
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		The Beneventan Script
		A History of the South Italian Minuscule		Sandpiper Editions
		EA Loew
		Oxford University Press 1998 424 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0199240159
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	A classic study in regional palaeography, Loew's essay traces the development and decline of the South Italian Miniscule script that originated in the Benedictine scriptorium of Monte Cassino in the 5th century. Working almost entirely from original sources, Loew studies the script, the milieu of its development, the books written in it, and the prominent centres and individuals engaged in the copying of manuscripts over a period of 500 years. An appendix lists over 600 Benevantan manuscripts. (1914)
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		Four Martyrdoms from the Pierpoint Morgan Coptic Codices
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		AEA Reymond; JWB Barns
		Oxford University Press 1998 290 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198154488
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	These four works, presented in Coptic with English translations, purport to record the acta of martyrs in the great persecutions of the 4th century. Three are 'epic' Egyptian martyrologies in which the hero defies a villainous persecuting judge, is subjected to incredible tortures and miraculously recovers several times before final execution. The text on St Coluthus, however, records his trial by Arianus without any embellishment and offers an insight into the process by which the words and deeds of historical people were elaborated into more or less stupendous stories. (1973)
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		The Letters of Osbert of Clare
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		EW Williamson (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 1998 232 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198206186
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	Osbert of Clare (fl.1136) was a monk of Westminster, elected Prior in 1136, and best known for his lives of saints Edmund, Ethelbert, Edburga and Edward. Osbert was an active ecclesiastical politician who was twice banished from the monastery and also went to Rome as an advocate for the canonization of Edward the Confessor. His letters reflect the active, though not always successful, part he played in 12th century ecclesiastical life. This volume presents the Latin texts of Osbert's letters, with critical introduction and notes and an essay on Osbert's career by Joseph Armitage Robinson. (1929)
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		Studies in the History of Old English Literature
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		Kenneth Sisam
		Oxford University Press 1998 314 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198113927
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	First published in 1953, this volume brought together papers spanning over thirty years of research - 'foraging among manuscripts' - by the medieval literary scholar Kenneth Sisam. Many of the essays are concerned with the then relatively unexplored problems of textual transmission in the Anglo-Saxon period. They include important studies of Cynewulf and his poetry, of the 17th century palaeographer and librarian Humfrey Wanley, and the influential essay, 'Dialect Origins of Earlier Old English'.
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		Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary
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		JD Pheifer (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 1998 258 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198111649
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	This is the first full critical edition of the 8th century Epinal- Erfurt Glossary, which constitutes the earliest Old English text of any length. The two manuscripts are printed in full in parallel columns with an apparatus designed to illustrate their relationship with later Old English glossaries. The Introduction deals at length with the sources of the Glossary and proposes a number of new interpretations as well as offering a unique insight into the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon literary culture. (1974)
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		Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles
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		Kenneth R Brooks (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 1998 237 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198114222
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	Despite its obvious stylistic defects, Andreas may justly be reckoned one of the most interesting Old English poems, notable for its vigorous narrative and varied vocabulary. This critical edition includes Cynewulf's short poem The Fates of the Apostles, once thought to be the conclusion of Andreas. Brooks's critical edition has a full textual commentary, a glossary and an introduction dealing with the sources of the poems, their language and metre, and the question of Beowulfian influence on Andreas. (1961)
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		A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages
		Two volumes		Sandpiper Editions
		FJE Raby
		Oxford University Press 1997 796 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143257
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	The standard work on secular Latin poetry, Raby's history follows the rhetorical tradition from classical Latin to the 13th century, demonstrating the continuity between the literary history of antiquity and that of the Middle Ages. Raby gives an account of secular lyrical poetry, its origins and its dependence on the vernacular. He also deals with historical, philosophical, epical, satirical and grammatical forms, and with the medieval genre of the versified tale or 'comoedia'. (1934, 1957)
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		The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons
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		George K Anderson
		Oxford University Press 1997 431 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0196286409
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	Anderson provides in this single volume a descriptive history of the entire canon of Old English literature, from its beginnings to the Norman Conquest. The emphasis throughout is more on literature than on linguistics, and readings from Anglo-Saxon writings are quoted extensively, mainly in Anderson's own translations. The extensive notes at the end of each chapter constitute a critical review of published research up to the time of writing. (1949)
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		Lives of the Irish Saints
		Two volumes		Sandpiper Editions
		Charles Plummer (Edited & Translated by)
		Oxford University Press 1997 750 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198213891
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	Intended as a supplement to Plummer's Latin Lives (Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae) published in 1910, these two volumes contain the lives of ten saints written in Irish: Abban, Bairre of Cork, Berach, Brendan of Clonfert, Ciaran of Saigir, Coemgen, Colman, Maedoc of Ferns, Mochuda and Ruadan. Volume I contains an introduction that deals with the details of the manuscript sources, the 17 Irish texts and a glossary. Volume II contains the translations, notes and indexes. (1922, second edition 1968)
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