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Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion, including ‘religious enthusiasm’. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries). By approaching the theme of sanctity from multiple disciplinary perspectives, this highly original collection pushes forward current academic thinking about medieval hagiography, iconography, social history, women's studies, and architectural history.
Examining correlations between the material and the mystical, this books investigates collective writing and devotional culture in late medieval piety.
Letter writing was the major branch of rhetoric in the High Middle Ages (ars dictaminis) and Renaissance (ars epistolandi). As the primary source of discourse it played major roles in the history of education, the Latin language and literature, and its relation to grammar and oratory (ars arengandi). The letters are also a very rich source ranging from Church and State correspondence to social hierarchies and fiction. Several hundred authors, recognized as precursors of the Humanists, produced treatises, manuals, formularies and model letter collections found in a few thousand largely unstudied manuscripts. This is the third and final volume of the Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, a singular reference work, a manuscript inventory of texts, most of which were examined in situ by Emil J. Polak in almost nine-hundred libraries and archives. The repertory is arranged alphabetically by country and city with standard details for each manuscript. Four indexes conclude the work.
Battle of Hastings; Séemiologie du tombeau de comte de Champagne; Romanesque Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey; Chichester Cathedral; Cluniacs in England; Battle Abbey; William fitz Osbern and Lyre Abbey; Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Honour of Clare; Norman Settlement in Dyfed; Women and Succession; Land and Power: Estates of Harold Godwineson; Danish Kings and England in 10c. R.A. BROWN, M. BUR, R. GEM, B. GOLDING, J.N. HARE, S.F. HOCKEY, E. VAN HOUTS, R. MORTIMER, I.W. ROWLANDS, E. SEARLE, A. WILLIAMS, D. WILSON