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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 The volume includes a paraphrase of Nicephorus' (unpublished) Refutatio et Eversio.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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		Anna Comnena
		A Study		Sandpiper Editions
		Georgina Buckler
		Oxford University Press 2000 576 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198214715
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	The first woman historian, Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I. Written in a monastery after the deaths of her father and husband, Nikephorus, her celebrated biography of her father, the Alexias is the only Greek contemporary account of the court of Alexius and of the First Crusade. First published in 1929, long before any English translation of the Alexias, Buckler's book remains the only full length study of Anna Comnena as a woman, a historian and a writer. (1929, reprinted 1968).
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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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		Trial By Fire and Water
		The Medieval Judicial Ordeal		Sandpiper Editions
		Robert Bartlett
		Oxford University Press 1999 182 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198219733
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	Trial by ordeal is a strange and alien custom to modern ways of thought, yet it has been an important legal procedure in many periods and many regions. This book examines the workings of trial by ordeal from its first appearance in the barbarian law codes, and traces its use by Christian societies down to the witchcraft trials of modern Europe and America. Bartlett presents a critique of recent theories about the operation and the decline of the practice and attempts to make sense of the ordeal as a working institution. (1986)
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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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		German Knighthood
		1050-1300		Sandpiper Editions
		Benjamin Arnold
		Oxford University Press 1999 320 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198219601
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	The medieval German empire founded by Otto the Great was led by emperors committed to pursuing martial glory abroad, and comprised a large number of regional powers engaged in constant feuding at home. Huge retinues of armed men - unfree knights - were maintained to sustain the level of conflict. This study focuses on the impact of unfree knighthood on German society, examining the knights' legal rights and obligations, their functions in peace and war, restrictions on knightly marriage, their habitual use of violence, and the role of the imperial knights within German politics. (1985)
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		Saracenic Heraldry
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		L A Mayer
		Oxford University Press 1999 302 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 019817120X
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	This volume presents a fully documented armorial roll of Saracenic sultans and emirs, designed to meet the requirements of students of Muslim archaeology and covering the geographical area of Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the period from the end of the Crusades to the Ottoman conquest. A comprehensive introduction discusses the origins and forms of Saracenic heraldry and its place in Ayyubid and Mamluk society. The armorial roll contains descriptions of blazons, explanations of inscriptions and bibliographic references. Inscriptions are given in Arabic with English translations. (1933)
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		Medieval Latin and Rise of European Love Lyric
		(Two volumes in one)		Sandpiper Editions
		Peter Dronke
		Oxford University Press 1998 634 pages		Qty
		Hardback 019814346X
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	An interpretation rather than a history of medieval lyrical love- poetry, Dronke's book illuminates certain modes of thought in medieval poetry, and certain kinds of language, particularly that of courtly love. Volume I investigates the beginnings of vernacular love poetry in Europe and explores its relation to the Latin poetry of the time and to the world of ideas that Latin made accessible. Volume II presents the texts of a large number of medieval Latin love poems with prose translations. (Second edition 1968)
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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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