Codex Ashmole 61

Codex Ashmole 61 PDF

Author: George Shuffelton

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 1580444423

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Since its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.

Objects of affection

Objects of affection PDF

Author: Myra Seaman

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1526143836

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Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages – human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible – collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript’s material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.

Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum

Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum PDF

Author: Elias Ashmole

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1602068941

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"To All Ingeniously Elaborate Students, In the most Divine Mysteries of Hermetique Learning." Or so British politician and Freemason ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692) dedicated this curious artifact of the esoteric and spiritual philosophy of alchemy. An avid collector of antiquaries and other oddities (they were, upon his death, bequeathed to Oxford University, which used them to found the Ashmolean Museum), Ashmole counted among his treasures volumes of metaphysical poems available only in private, and fiercely guarded, manuscripts. In 1652, though, he collected many of these writings in this hefty tome, annotated with his own comments. Included are: . "The Ordinall of Alchimy" by Thomas Norton . "The Compound of Alchymie" by Sir George Ripley . "Liber Patris Sapientiae" . "The Tale of the Chanons Yeoman" by Geoffry Chaucer . "The Worke of John Dastin" . "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon" by the Viccar of Malden . "Bloomsfields Blossoms: Or, The Campe of Philosophy" . "Sir Ed Kelley Concerning the Philosopher's Stone" . and much more. Once a resource for such natural philosophers as Isaac Newton, the Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum remains an astonishing album of arcania.

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript PDF

Author: M. E. D'Imperio

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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In spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have accumulated over the nearly fifty-five years since the manuscript was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912. This report pulls together all the information the author could obtain from all the sources she has examined, and to present it in an orderly fashion. The resulting survey will provide a firm basis upon which other students may build their work, whether they seek to decipher the text or simply to learn more about the problem.

Practising Shame

Practising Shame PDF

Author: Mary C. Flannery

Publisher: Manchester Medieval Literature

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781526110077

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Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Middle English Texts in Transition

Middle English Texts in Transition PDF

Author: Simon Horobin

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1903153530

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Chaucer, Gower and Langland -- Lyrics and romances -- Devotional writings -- Owners and users of medieval books -- A tribute to Professor Takamiya

Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States

Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States PDF

Author: Bernard Hamilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1108915922

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Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East in the period c.1050-1300. Bernard Hamilton and Andrew Jotischky follow the parallel histories of new Latin foundations alongside the survival and revival of Greek Orthodox monastic life under Crusader rule. Examining the involvement of monasteries in the newly founded Crusader States, the institutional organization of monasteries, the role of monastic life in shaping expressions of piety, and the literary and cultural products of monasteries, this meticulously researched survey will facilitate a new understanding of indigenous religious institutions and culture in the Crusader states.

The Middle English Breton Lays

The Middle English Breton Lays PDF

Author: Anne Laskaya

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 1995-11-01

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1580444679

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This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

Sir Orfeo: Ein Englisches Feenmärchen Aus Dem Mittelalter

Sir Orfeo: Ein Englisches Feenmärchen Aus Dem Mittelalter PDF

Author: Oscar Zielke

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-22

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780469405370

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