S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

    . . insights whiz to and fro like meteorites."—John Russell, New York Times Book Review

    Recording the events of the journey, as well as the sights, miracles, and people that he saw, his account is an important historical and literary, as well as human document.

    Many of the great scenes from the Old Testament and many more from the New Testament are included, besides the Stations of the Cross and portraits of the saints.The work of an unidentified Dutch master painter, the manuscript was made for Catherine of Cleves on the occasion of her marriage to the Duke of Guelders. All the 157 surviving miniatures are reproduced to actual size and in exquisite color with gold, together with three samples of pages containing the Latin prayers. Page after page reveals the elaborate program and rich illumination of the original. The progression from beginning to end shows an artist increasing in skill, relying in his earlier work on tradition and later emerging as an independent artist of bold, clear colors, dynamic brushwork, and lively imagination. He stands as one of the supreme painters of fifteenth-century Northern Europe.Each page is accompanied by a descriptive and explanatory commentary by John Plummer. His introduction discusses the development of the Book of Hours as a liturgical form in general, and the history of the Cleves Hours specifically, and describes the place it holds in the history of Northern painting.

    It is designed to be used following the first weeks that are devoted to learning the basics of the language.The texts of these poems are edited with commentary and a completely indexed glossary specifying all grammatical forms.

    The poem consists of the lament of the scop Deor, who lends his name to the poem, which was given no formal title.The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes contextual introduction, notes and glossary.

    She was also the wife of the first Castellan of Pembroke, and so formed a link between the old Celtic and the new Norman ways of life. The golden hive, symbol of her house, represented the honey dues rendered to each Welsh King as his right. When she was eleven, Nesta was captured by the English King Rufus and taken to Romsey Abbey, to be educated with other royal wards. There, three years later, Henry of Coutances, William the Conqueror's fourth son, came; and he and Nesta fell in love.But Nesta was destined to marry Gerald de Windsor and to help him govern the people of Pembrokeshire, who still paid allegiance to Rhys ap Tewdwr's child. From this marriage, and from her love affairs with King Henry III and other men, Nesta became the mother of the great Norman-Welsh family, the Geraldines, who were to conquer Ireland at the end of the century.

    Ten-year-old Togrim and his little sister search for their parents taken by thieves and sold into slavery in this adventure story set in the Baltic provinces in the seventeenth century.