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The Item
Widowed Sam Price inherited the journals of his great-grandfather, and his great-grandfather's love of art. On a visit to a Parisian auction house, Sam sees a painting his great-grandfather once owned and questions its authenticity. This leads to the auction house offering him a job valuing artworks and establishing their provenance. When "the Item" is stolen, Sam helps to find it, but is it actually a forgery? While Sam researches its provenance, the story jumps from present to past to follow the lives it has touched. In the course of his research Sam comes into contact with four different women. Will one these become his new love? And what secrets do his great-grandfather's journals contain which may help to find the missing artworks and solve the crimes?
Bishop Æthelwold, His Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England
An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.
Kings of Conflict
The final, thrilling instalment in MJ Porter's The Brunanburh Series.Can King Edmund of the English banish the Norse invaders from England one final time? AD942 In the wake of the agreement reached at Lincoln between Edmund and Anlaf Sihtricson of the Norse, Edmund returns to Wessex to reflect and rebuild, impatient to reverse his losses at Lincoln. But this is the winter of discontent. In Jorvik and the kingdom of the Scots, those who’ve waited too long to become kings in their own right grow restless. As the enemies of the English turn on themselves, Edmund senses the opportunity to reclaim all his brother, the victor of Brunanburh, managed to gain before his untimely death plunged Engla...
Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages
This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.
The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959
Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and Æthelstan, and to the larger and integrated realm of their more distant successors, Edgar and Æthelred II. However, the English kingdom in the 940s and 950s, and its three kings, Edmund (939-946), Eadred (946-955), and Eadwig (955-959), the men who inherited and held together the kingdom created by their immediate predecessors, have been somewhat neglected, with little research being dedicated to these men as kings, or the era in which they ruled. This volume offers a variety of approaches to the period. Its contributors bring to light royal legal innovations to ecclesiastical law, oaths, heriot, complex factional politics, including the crucial role of queens, differing perspectives on the final era of an independent northern kingdom of York, and developments in literary culture outside the domineering trend of the later monastic reformers.
Three Monks from Florence
Auction House manager Sophie receives an oil painting and delves into its history. She enlists the help of Sam and Martijn and learn about three monks and their secretive journey over four-hundred years ago. Planned by a priest in the past, in the present world, clues come to light about a treasure and about others who will stop at nothing to possess it. Terri, a young Museum Curator, and Tammy from New York, join Sophie in a search that spreads from the Bosporus in the east to the Bay of San Francisco in the west. Their quest takes them to Florence, Italy, where they must use their combined knowledge that they have gathered to solve the ancient mystery surrounding a princess. Three keys, three clues, three locks to choose, will the riddle be solved? Will the treasure be found?
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.
The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict
Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Authors and Works Cited -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Rule of Saint Benedict as Translated by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester -- Appendix 1: I. Concerning the Kinds of Monks (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 2: LXII. Concerning the Monastery's Priests and Their Servants (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 3: "King Edgar's Establishment of Monasteries"--Appendix 4: Ælfric's Homily On Saint Benedict, Abbot -- Bibliography
Æthelred the Unready
The Massacre of St Brice's Day -- The 'Palace Revolution', 1005-6 -- Sin and society, 1006-9 -- Crime and punishment -- Apocalypse and atonement -- CHAPTER 6 A KINGDOM LOST AND WON 1009-16 -- From crisis to collapse: Thorkell's 'immense raiding army', 1009-12 -- Calamity and response, 1009-12 -- Faction, friction and conquest, 1013-16 -- CONCLUSION AN AGE OF ILL COUNSEL? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
