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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by Carrie Beneš, Rosemary Horrox
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The Black Death
by Rosemary Horrox
This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by C. E. Beneš, Rosemary Horrox
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2013Chronicles of the Investiture Contest
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2000The world of El Cid
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fasincating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2001Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Thietmar's testimony also has special value because of his geographical location, in eastern Saxony, on the boundary between German and Slavic cultures. He is arguably the single most important witness to the early history of Poland, and his detailed descriptions of Slavic folklore are the earliest on record. This is a very important source in the medieval period, translated here in its entirety for the first time. It relates to an area of medieval studies generally dominated by German scholars, in which Anglo-phone scholars are beginning to make a substantial contribution. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2015The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2014The political writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 1994The Black Death
by Translated and edited by Rosemary Horrox
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2022The reign of Edward II, 1307–27
by Wendy Childs, Phillipp Schofield, Rosemary Horrox
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2017Noble society
by Rosemary Horrox, Jonathan Lyon, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2011Friars’ Tales
by David Jones, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2009History and politics in late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2012The reign of Richard II
by Rosemary Horrox, Alison McHardy, Simon Maclean
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2009Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300–1535
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, Martin Heale
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2012Roger II and the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily
by Graham Loud, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Towns in medieval England
by Rosemary Horrox, Gervase Rosser, Simon Maclean
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2000The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
by Rosemary Horrox, Trevor Dean, Simon Maclean
The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sourcebook has the same geographical or chronological range. This collection is carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics. Offers students well-translated and effectively contextualised documents along with some guidance to the secondary work of Italian scholars which is largely inaccessible to undergraduate students. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2001The lives of Thomas Becket
by Rosemary Horrox, Michael Staunton, Simon Maclean
This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features all his major biographers, including many previously untranslated extracts. Providing both a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the events. By using contemporary sources, this book is the most accessible way to study this central episode in medieval history. Thomas Becket features prominently in most medieval core courses. This book allows the subject to be taught as never before, and is highly suitable as a set text. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2016Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200–1300
by Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean, Rebecca Mortimer
