Author: Michael J. P. RobsonPublisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780903857512
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Franciscans in the Medieval Custody of York
Author: Michael J. P. RobsonPublisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780903857512
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Borthwick Papers
Author: St. Anthony's Hall Publications
Author: Growing Old in the Middle Ages
Author: Shulamith ShaharPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415333603
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This study draws a comprehensive picture of medieval old age in western Europe, combining primary sources and secondary litrature to produce a broad cultural history.
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries
Author: Ernest L. GrangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincolnshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincolnshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565
Author: Gregory O'MalleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Knights of St John of Jerusalem, also known as the Hospitallers, were a military religious order, subject to monastic vows and discipline but devoted to the active defence of the Holy Land. After evacuating the Holy Land at the beginning of the fourteenth century, they occupied Rhodes, which they held into the sixteenth century, when their headquarters moved to Malta. Branches of the order existed throughout Europe, and it is the English branch in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that is examined here. Among the major subjects researched by O'Malley are the recruitment of members of the Hospital and their family ties; the operation of the order's career structure; the administration of its estates; its provision of spiritual and charitable services; and the publicity and logistical support it provided for the holy war carried on by its headquarters against the Ottoman Turks. It is argued that the English Hospitallers in particular took their military and financial duties to the order very seriously, making a major contribution to the Hospital's operations in the Mediterranean as a result. They were able to do so because they were wealthy, had close family and other ties with gentle and mercantile society, and above all because their activities had royal support. Where this was lacking or ineffective, as in Ireland, the Hospital might become the plaything of local interests eager to exploit its estates, and its wider functions might be neglected. Consequently the heart of the book lies in an extended discussion of the relationship between senior Hospitaller officers and the governing authorities of Britain and Ireland. It is concluded that rulers were generally supportive of the order's activities, but within strict limits, particularly in matters concerning appointments, the size of payments to the east, and the movement and foreign allegiances of senior brethren. When these limits were breached, or at times of political or religious sensitivity such as the 1460s and 1530s, the Hospital's personnel and estates would suffer. In addition, more general areas of historical debate are illuminated such as those concerning the relationship between late medieval societies and the religious orders; 'British' attitudes to Christendom and holy war, and the rights of rulers over their subjects. This is the first such book to be based on archival records in both Britain and Malta, and will make a major contribution to understanding the order's European network, its place in the ordering of Latin Christendom, and in particular its role in late medieval British and Irish society.
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries
Author: The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881
Author: C.C. BaldwinPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5874721363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 989
Book Description
Chaucer and Clothing
Author: Laura Fulkerson HodgesPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims. Religious and academic dress in the middle ages functioned as a metaphorical signifier of spiritual and intellectual standards, implied a given social status, signalled the rejection or possession of garment wealth, and, in the details, suggested the wearer's spiritual state. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the characterizing dress worn by Chaucer's pilgrims who are in holy orders and/or affiliated with universities; the author uses approaches from a variety of disciplines [received criticism of late medieval literature, developments in political, economic and social history, the visual arts, and material culture] in order to present the complex ideas and rhetoric the pilgrims' dress expresses. She also makes the religious, intellectual, and material culture of Chaucer's day accessible to modern audiences through the reconstruction of the significance of fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and an explanation of technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories, and their images in the visual arts.