cambridge studies in medieval life

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature: Vernacular Translation in Dante s Italy: Illiterate Literature (Hardcover)

Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point... more

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender Book 40 (Paperback)

Christine de Pizan s Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine s... more

Cambridge Studies in Latin American and The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain Book 10 (Paperback)

The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain examines the medical underpinnings of two major misogynist works from the 15th-century Iberian: Alonso de Martínez s Arcipreste de Talavera and Jacme Roig s Spill. Michael Solomon argues that these works... more

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer Book 71 (Paperback)

After the late fourteenth century English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer William Langland John Clanvowe Margery Kempe Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate far... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Gilbert Crispin Abbot of Westminster: A Study of the Abbey Under Norman Rule (Paperback)

Gilbert Crispin (c. 1045-1117/18) fourth abbot of Westminster Abbey was a scion of an important Norman family. Trained at Bec under St Anselm later archbishop of Canterbury he was a noted scholar and theologian. Under his rule Westminster Abbey began... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions (Paperback)

First published in 1905 H. Munro Chadwick s Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions applied his study of philology to a re-analysis of the historical evidence for early English law and administration. In the first part he examines the development of the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Xith and Xiith Centuries (Paperback)

John Horace Round (1854-1928) published Feudal England in 1895. The volume is a collection of Round s articles on feudalism most of which had been previously published in the English Historical Review. The essays cover the period 1050-1200. They are... more

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature The Cantar de Mio Cid Book 5 (Paperback)

In this study Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy then into genealogical values. Considering the poem s distortions of history more significant than its... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: George Eliot: A Critical Study of Her Life Writings and Philosophy (Paperback)

American Unitarian minister George Willis Cooke (1848-1923) worked for almost thirty years in Unitarian churches across the United States before turning full-time to scholarly pursuits in 1900. Cooke a voracious reader who was largely self-taught... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of Bohemia: Including a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg Misc. Hist. 146 E. VII 19): And a F

Walter Seton s 1915 book focuses on one of the key understudied figures of the early Franciscan movement. Abbess of the Convent of Prague Blessed Agnes was central to the establishment of the Order of Saint Clare. She presented persuasive arguments to... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation (Paperback)

First published in 1918 and re-issued with forty pages of illustrations in 1919 Social Life in Britain marked a turning point in Coulton s writings. Although a rigorous academic who stressed the importance of using primary sources Coulton was skilled... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century (Paperback)

J. R. H. Moorman was one of the foremost Anglican scholars of the English church in the middle ages and especially of the Franciscan order. First published in 1945 Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century provides a social history of the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History: Medieval English Nunneries: C.1275 to 1535 (Paperback)

Eileen Power best known for her posthumously published Medieval Women was one of the foremost scholars of medieval economic and social history in the first half of the twentieth century. This 1922 work is a substantial study of medieval English... more

Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England 1660-1800 (Paperback)

Drawing upon vivid court records and newspaper advertisements this study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It reveals husbands and wives expectations and experiences of marriage to expose the extent of... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: Life in Shakespeare s England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose (Paperback)

Entertaining and informative this 1956 anthology paints a vivid picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived. Using the playwright s life as the framework - his birth his education his move to London his life in theatre his death - the book uses... more

Cambridge Studies in Opera Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Paperback)

Best remembered for such light-hearted works as Il barbiere di Siviglia Gioachino Rossini produced a sequence of large-scale serious French operas after his move to Paris in 1824 which overwhelmed audiences with their musical power and responded to the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: The Life of John Ruskin: Volume 1 1819-1860 (Paperback)

In 1911 the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming authoritative biography of Ruskin with the words out of a life s devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: Caxtoniana 2 Volume Paperback Set: A Series of Essays on Life Literature and Manners (Other)

In 1849 Edward Bulwer Lytton published the popular novel The Caxtons about an eccentric family who claimed descent from the printer William Caxton. Its hero Pisistratus Caxton was named as the author of two subsequent works My Novel (1853) and What... more

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Publ Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics (Paperback)

How should modern medicine s dramatic new powers to sustain life be employed? How should limited resources be used to extend and improve the quality of life? In this collection Dan Brock a distinguished philosopher and bioethicist and co-author of... more

Cambridge Classical Studies Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch s Life and Arrian s Anabasis Alexandrou (Paperback)

Plutarch and Arrian are the ancient writers who tell us most about Alexander the Great. This book is the first attempt to analyze and evaluate in detail the sources of information they themselves drew on a necessary first step to appreciating the value... more

Cambridge Studies in Music Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna (Paperback)

This book examines the impact of the daily life political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 1815 and 1830. Emphasis is given to Beethoven Schubert Paganini and Johann Strauss where their careers... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: The Life of John Ruskin: Volume 2 1860-1900 (Paperback)

In 1911 the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming authoritative biography of Ruskin with the words out of a life s devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: Landmarks of a Literary Life 1820-1892 (Paperback)

Camilla Crosland (1812-1895) was a British author whose literary career spanned sixty years of the nineteenth century. Although best known as a poet she was also a prolific writer of short stories novels and articles. In the late 1850s she became... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: My Long Life: An Autobiographic Sketch (Paperback)

Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-1898) was the daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello. Charles and Mary Lamb were family friends and under the inspiration of their Tales from Shakespeare Mary became a noted Shakespeare scholar her major work being the... more

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life Book 75 (Paperback)

In their pursuit of emotional extremes writers of the Romantic period were fascinated by experiences of pain and misery and explored the ability to derive pleasure and produce creative energy out of masochism and submission. These interests were... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies: Children s Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life (Paperback)

From fables to fairy tales romances to nursery rhymes this highly influential 1932 study analyses the evolution of children s literature. Publisher and writer F. J. Harvey Darton (1878-1936) draws upon his family s involvement in children s publishing... more

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Paperback)

Lynne Rudder Baker presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. In contrast to leading metaphysical views that take everyday things to be either non-existent or reducible to micro-objects the Constitution View... more

Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine A Theology of Public Life Book 17 (Paperback)

What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics no one has explored the religious benefits and challenges of public engagement for Christian believers - until now. This book defends... more

Cambridge Studies in Chinese History Li Poetry and Politics: The Life and Works of Juan Chi A.D. 210-263 (Paperback)

Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker Juan Chi (AD 210-263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi s important works in verse and prose his letters and all the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Classics: Agricola: A Study of Agriculture and Rustic Life in the Greco-Roman World from the Point of View of Labour (Paperback)

William Emerton Heitland (1847-1935) was a Cambridge classicist who was described as having a passionate desire to attain the truth . His most distinguished work Agricola published in 1921 is a detailed study of agricultural labour in classical times.... more

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Family and Public Life in Brescia 1580-1650: The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State (Paperback)

This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families of Brescia a rich and strategically vital city under Venetian rule during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The first part of the book conceptualizes the civic leadership of... more

Cambridge Studies in Ecology Life Strategies of Succulents in Deserts: With Special Reference to the Namib Desert (Paperback)

Deserts provide a seemingly hostile environment in which plants can nevertheless survive and grow. This book originally published in 1992 considers the ecological strategies adopted by desert succulents to overcome these problems. Much fresh data on... more

Cambridge Studies in American Literature Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work Book 70 (Paperback)

In Emerson and the Conduct of Life David M. Robinson describes Ralph Waldo Emerson s evolution from mystic to pragmatist stressing the importance of Emerson s undervalued later writing. Emerson s reputation has rested on the addresses and essays of the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies: Life in the Niger Or the Journal of an African Trader (Paperback)

First published in 1862 William Cole s journal records his experiences in the highly challenging circumstances of a trading expedition to Africa. Cole outlines in graphic detail the dangers he had to endure and describes how he surmounted the most... more

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Keats Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing Book 6 (Hardcover)

This original study offers clear but conceptually sophisticated readings of Keats major poems that are informed by contemporary literary theory. Drawing on the recent growth in interest in the Romantic poets and their audiences the book focuses on the... more

Cambridge Classical Studies Authorised Lives in Early Christian Biography: Between Eusebius and Augustine (Paperback)

What was distinctive about Christian biography in late antiquity? In this book Dr Williams examines a range of biographies of prominent Christians written in the fourth and fifth centuries and suggests that they share a purpose and function which sets... more

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Keats Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing Book 6 (Paperback)

This original study offers clear but conceptually sophisticated readings of Keats major poems that are informed by contemporary literary theory. Drawing on the recent growth in interest in the Romantic poets and their audiences the book focuses on the... more