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THE KNOWLEDGE
London, 1971. Tony Pinner, a cabbie stumbles upon the existence of a secret society within the ranks of the black cabs. The Knowledge could kill him. Tony comes from a long tradition of Black Cab drivers, with both his father and grandfather being cabbies before him. Tony’s life has stalled. His marriage stale and strained. When one of his regular fares is kidnapped and, later, fished out of the Thames, he decides to track down the killers. His search brings him to the attention of an ancient order, that is determined to silence him. Soon he is being hunted through the very streets he calls home. Pinner knows London like the back of his hand, but if he is to discover who his enemies really are, he will need all his knowledge. It might just keep him alive long enough to find out the truth and who he can truly trust.
The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia
An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.
Stages of Loss
An original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe that casts new light, from new angles, on major developments in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatre and drama.
Narratives of power: the episcopal figure in anglo/saxon monastic
The current research aims to analyze and understand how the narratives of power around Anglo-Saxon bishops were created in monastic environments during the Early Middle Ages. As relevant political and cultural characters of their time, the episcopal representatives deeply influenced the religious landscape and shaped a distinctive native ethos. The importance of this investigation comes from the lack of direct specialised treatment this topic has have as an integrated matter, taking in account it’s tripartite essence: bishops, the monastic phenomena and the writing derived from the interaction of the first two components.
Angles on a Kingdom
Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.
Stories in Glass
Norfolk's churches are home to some of the highest-quality and best-preserved medieval stained glass in Britain. Panels produced in the county's extensive and long-lasting workshops, centred in the historically important city of Norwich, can be found in some 270 buildings, including churches, museums and country houses. Moreover, recent research has revealed for the first time the original location of many of the panels now dispersed around the county. In Stories in Glass, Paul Harley and David King reveal these treasures to a new audience. Harley's exquisite photographs are set alongside historical and artistic explanations that illuminate the social, economic and religious background to the windows we see today. With 200 colour images, and maps showing the locations of the windows discussed, this beautifully illustrated guide will appeal to the explorer and collector alike.
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice
Contemporary arts, both practice and methods, offer medieval scholars innovative ways to examine, explore, and reframe the past. Medievalists offer contemporary studies insights into cultural works of the past that have been made or reworked in the present. Creative-critical writing invites the adaptation of scholarly style using forms such as the dialogue, short essay, and the poem; these are, the authors argue, appropriate ways to explore innovative pathways from the contemporary to the medieval, and vice versa. Speculative and non-traditional, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice adapts the conventional scholarly essay to reflect its cross-disciplinary, creative subject. This book ‘doe...
St Edmund, King and Martyr
The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich array of visual, literary, musical and political artefacts. Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history - and of sources - chronicles, poems, theolo...
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.
