An engaging narrative history of the origins of formal education in the West. Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded by the American Philosophical Society.
Makes available for the first time the unique text in the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS. Bodley 283, which is among the last and largest works in the tradition of lay religious instruction mandated by the Fourth Lateran Council.
This study examines the life and death of Franciscan preacher and reformer, St John of Capistran (1386-1456). The author explores the collections of the miraculous deeds of St John and analyzes them from four points of view including a philological evaluation of the collections.
'A superb work of committed scholarship ... Maccoby has done a fine job in recapturing the intellectual and social drama of the confrontations.' Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Journal of Sociology
'Masterly work ... undoubtedly a major study on the rabbinate. His controversial stand on many issues related to the Italian Renaissance has and will continue to stimulate fertile discussion.' Joanna Weinberg, Journal of Semitic Studies
H G Koenigsberger's account begins with the disintegration of the western Roman Empire and traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. He covers the Islamic, Byzantine and Central Asian worlds in his account.
The Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected.
Franco Cardini distils the essence of countless scholarly studies on the subject in this richly illustrated volume.
This text looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writing and mystical texts, to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps.
A study of Renaissance Italy and the north, focusing on crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian. It contains essays on subjects such as the invention of oil painting; Netherlandish music and musicians in the City of Doges; and commercial contacts and intellectual inspirations.