This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".

    This novel follows Psin, a Mongol general, through the military campaigns in Russia and Europe, among his own family and in his own heart.

    Good illustrations in period style.

    Offering an essential understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology, the Benedictine author details pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, and more — information of great importance to craftsmen and historians of art and science. Includes 34 illustrations.

    He aims to give a provisory mise au point of the state of research, including his own, to draw the attention of a learned public to the interest in medieval Turkish history, and to discuss for the scholar some problems, particularly methodological problems, which seem of importance to further research. The main stress is on the problems which have been particularly studied by the author, and seem to him of special importance for further research; political history, of course which is unavoidable,; social, economic and institutional problems. Cultural history is treated at some length, and it is hoped that Turkish art will atract the eye of the reader through the illustrations in the book. The work is devided into four sections; 1. a general picture of the great Seljukid Empire, outside Asia Minor; 2 the political history of the Seljukids in Asia Minor; 3. a study of society and institutions in Turkey before the Mongol period; and 4 a special section to consider the changes in Turkish history brought about by the Mongol invasion, the disintegration of the resulting empire, and the growth of those principalities of a new kind.

    They are representative of Chenu's finest work.'If P?re Chenu considers "history of theology" to be the central concern of this collection, it is because he conceives of theology as an all-encompassing science, one which reflects the comprehensive unity of intellectual life as that develops within a culture. Literary history and criticism, cultural history, philosophy, biblical exegesis, historiography, ecclesiastical and social history, the history of education-all these and more are here involved, in their interdependence.' -- From the Translators' NoteFirst published as La th?ologie au douzi?me si?cle by J. Vinn, 1957. English translation published by University of Chicago Press, 1968

    

    After an introductory discussion of the performers and performance of lyrics in the middle ages, each chapter analyses one of the major lyrical genres and centres on close critical discussion of outstanding lyrics, with generous quotation of texts and translations. While the rise of religious lyric and the transformations of love-lyric receive the fullest treatment, there are also chapters on women's songs, on the 'alba', on dance-songs, and on `lyrics of realism'.

    With a glossary by: Davis, Norman;

    It features selections from the Bible to the Carmina Burana, and authors from St. Augustine to William of Malmesbury. Notes, bibliography, and an introduction to each of the seven sections are also included.

    Critical essays probe the works, literary style, and influence of the medieval English poet.

    I: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE FATHERS"Fr. Bouyer's is a mind erudite, brilliant, and endowed with teaching capacity: above all the mind of one with a deep experience of the life of the spirit. . . . This is a book to be read more than once and to be kept as a book of reference prepared by a fine scholar as well as an anthology from a master of quotation and of critical presentation." —Expository Times"A real achievement and a welcome addition to a better type of writingon Christian spirituality in English." — The Heythrop Journal"Should be bought for every Catholic library that has a shelf on Christianspirituality. Compared to it most of its companion studies will seem of tinsel." —Catholie HeraldVOL. II: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MIDDLE AGESThe only comprehensive guide available on the development of Christian spirituality in this most important period. The authors tackle their fascinating subject in two stages: from the sixth century to the beginning of the thirteenth (a continuation of the age of the Fathers), and from the twelfth to the dawn of the sixteenth century.VOL. Ill: ORTHODOX SPIRITUALITY ANDPROTESTANT AND ANGLICAN SPIRITUALITYThis last volume of A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY surveys Orthodox spirituality, the rebirth of Greek spirituality, and the development of Protestant and Anglican spirituality. A massive achievement, this volume brings into sharp focus a difficult and complex period of Church history.

    Moorman settles upon the moral and ethical issues dealt with by the poet as providing thematic unity within the poet's works, and demonstrates that the poet is everywhere concerned with the problem of man's disobedience to God's plan, and the impurity of life which stems from that disobedience.In the course of this examination, Mr. Moorman is careful to review the various theories of authorship, source material, and purpose which have dominated the previous work on the Pearl-poet. Where they are necessary to an understanding of the poet, medieval concepts, especially those of theology and chivalry, have been explained.The Pearl-Poet thus provides a much-needed general introduction to the works of an author who is, next to Chaucer, the most widely-read English author of the fourteenth century.

    

    Crowned duchess at the age of thirteen, she became the symbol of breton independence.