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Medine, Peter edit. Roger Ascham Toxophilus

by Medine, Peter edit. Roger Ascham

$ 20.00

Medine, Peter edit. Roger Ascham Toxophilus. (1545) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2002 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 187 pp

“Toxophilus is a book about longbow archery by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English.” Wikipedia

“Roger Ascham (c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He acted as Princess Elizabeth’s tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548 and 1550, and served in the administrations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

The name Ascham could be more properly spelt Askham, being derived from Askham near York. He was born at Kirby Wiske, a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, near Northallerton, the third son of John Ascham, steward to Baron Scrope of Bolton. His mother, Margaret, is said to have come from the Conyers family, but this is speculation. Thomas and John were Roger’s two older brothers, while Anthony Ascham was the youngest son of the Ascham family. The authority for this statement, as for most here concerning Ascham’s early life, is his close friend Edward Grant (1540s–1601), headmaster of the Royal College of St. Peter at Westminster—better known as Westminster School—who collected and edited his letters and delivered a panegyrical oration on his life in 1576.” GoodReads

by John Walmsley, edit.

$ 27.00

“This work is a new critical edition and translation of the late-twelfth-century Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on estates held directly by the Crown in 1185. As such they were a precursor to the veredicta of the general eyre from the 1230s on and of the extents attached to the Inquisitions Post Mortem from the 1240s. The implications for royal power and control and the machinery which brought them into being no doubt also led to the concerns expressed about inheritance and the treatment of widows and wards in the early clauses of Magna Carta in 1215. Translation of this material in toto makes it an invaluable source book for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the economy and society of medieval England and also for those interested in the history of women.”

by Black, Jeremy.

$ 32.00

“An exploration through maps of the land and time in which Shakespeare wrote. This beautiful new book looks at the England, Europe, and wider world in which William Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his Tudor contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world.”

by Karkov, Catherine

$ 32.00

Karkov, Catherine . Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2006 Pictorial hardcover. Like New Unused Octavo 247 pp

Introduction / Nicholas Howe and Catherine E. Karkov —
From British to English Christianity : deconstructing Bede’s interpretation of the conversion / Nicholas Brooks —
High Style and Borrowed finery : the Strood Mount, the Long —
Wittenham Stoup, and the Boss Hall brooch as complex responses to continental visual culture / Carol Neuman de Vegvar —
Changing faces : Leprosy in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee —
A map of the universe : geography and cosmology in the program of Alfred the great / Nicole Guenther Discenza —
“Old names of kings or shadows” : reading documentary lists / Jacqueline Stodnick —
Colonization and conversion in Cynewulf’s Elene / Heide Estes —
Making women visible : an adaptation of the regularis concordia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 201 / Joyce Hill —
Architectural metaphors and christological imagery in the advent lyrics : Benedictine propaganda in the Exeter Book? / Mercedes Salvador —
End time and the date of Voluspá : two models of conversion / Richard North.

by Catherine Richardson.

$ 37.00

Catherine Richardson. Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England : The material life of the household. Manchester University Press 2006 Hardcover in DJ Like New /Like New Unused. Octavo 235 pp

“This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence – the majority previously unpublished – for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods”

by Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler.

$ 22.00

Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England : Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2003 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 242 pp

“The eleven essays are arranged under four sub-headings, designed to examine by turn the celebration of celibacy, the deferral of marriage, the liminality of widowhood, and finally the significance of virginity (this last sub-section would likely make more sense if placed at the beginning rather than at the end of the volume).

Part I: Celebrating Celibacy focusses on the medieval period, with essays on Anglo-Norman single woman saints (Jane Zatta), variations on the fifteenth-century legends of St. Katherine of Alexandria (Paul Price), and Malory’s use of the single woman as a determining signifier of the masculine (single man) virtue of chivalry (Dorsey Armstrong).

Part II: Repudiating Marriage considers the versatility of money-lending as an occupation that allowed late Tudor and Stuart Englishwomen to remain single by choice (Judith M. Spicksley), and John Lyly’s alternatives to marriage as a generic conclusion for comedy in the Elizabethan court (Jacqueline Vanhoutte). Women

Part III: Imaginary Widowhood includes Amtower’s and Jeanie Grant Moore’s re-assessments of Chaucer’s widows, and Allison Levy’s examination of widow portraiture as an expression of masculine anxiety in the Restoration period. Amtower’s consideration of Chaucer’s Dido and Cleopatra (from Legend of Good Women), Criseyde, and the Wife of Bath as widows, presents a wide-ranging set of characteristics for this sub-category of the single woman. From pathetic to noble, from self-silenced iconic figures to more or less successful speakers, the widow for individually determined status.

Part IV: Sexuality and Revirgination traces the connections between female desire and its representations in virginal women. Perhaps the most compellingly nuanced essay in the collection, by Tracey Sedinger, considers how “[w]omen were usually represented as strangely ‘class-less’…even though their virtue implicitly signified an elevated social status” in versions of maidservant-lady relationships in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (Book 4), Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Book 2), and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing . Sedinger, unlike some of the other authors in this collection, notes explicitly the anachronism of some feminist approaches to the medieval and early modern female subject, which places priority on agency as a contingency of subjectivity.” Seventeenth Century News

by .N. Dore

$ 35.00

.N. Dore. Haltonchesters – Excavations Directed by J.P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960-1961. Oxbow Books. 2010. Hard cover. Like new with green cover with white lettering. Quarto. 179pp.

by M. Redknap, N Edwards, S Youngs, A Lane and J Knight.

$ 45.00

M. Redknap, N Edwards, S Youngs, A Lane and J Knight. Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Insular Art held at the National Museum & Gallery Cardiff 3-6 September 1998. Oxbow books 2001 Hardcover. Very Good Unused Quarto 284 pp, 20 color examples, black and white examples scattered throughout text.

by A.J. Legge.

$ 17.00

A.J. Legge. Excavations at Grimes Graves Norfolk, 1972-1976. British Museum Press. 1992. Soft cover/like new. Quarto. 87pp.

by Bernd Kluge

$ 45.00

Bernd Kluge. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles : Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins. Oxford University Press. 1987. Hard cover Like new. Navy cover with gold lettering. Quarto 180pp.

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