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Bram Stoker, Dracula

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Bram Stoker’s (1847–1912) Dracula is, like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, a major icon in the history of monsters. While there are vampire narratives that predate its publication, Stoker’s creation is really the origin...

Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley)— Selections

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...The Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) is one of the great sagas of ancient Ireland, part of the Ulster Cycle, which recounts the exploits and fantastic deeds of the young hero Cú Chulainn (The Hound of Culann). The Táin...

Rylands MS Latin 12

Melissa Markauskas

Melissa Markauskas

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Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages : Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge

Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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...Introduction Rylands MS Latin 12 is a homiliary – a collection of readings set for specific occasions during the liturgical calendar – of medium size (295 x 210 mm).Abbreviations: PD (I & II) = Homilary of Paul the Deacon, in Grégoire...

Isidorian Texts in Seventh-Century Ireland

Marina Smyth

Marina Smyth

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Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages : Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge

Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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...When working in the 1980s on elucidating the cosmological views current in Ireland during the seventh century, I came to question the prevailing assumption that Isidorian works such as the Etymologiae and De natura rerum were available...

Children of Eve

Erin V. Abraham

Erin V. Abraham is a lecturer in the Honors Program and an adjunct lecturer in the History and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society : Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials

Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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...Marriage and the regulation of sexual intercourse are primary concerns in all of the early penitentials. Each of these manuals represents an individual contribution towards a broader effort by religious authorities to promote...

Reawakening interest

J. Patrick Greene

J. Patrick Greene

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Medieval Monasteries

Continuum, 1992

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...During the eighteenth century, popular interest in the remains of former monasteries began to grow. On the one hand antiquarians engaged in writing the histories of monasteries, as described in Chapter 1. On the other, the ragged walls clad...

Introduction

Erin V. Abraham

Erin V. Abraham is a lecturer in the Honors Program and an adjunct lecturer in the History and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society : Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials

Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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...Around the turn of the eighth century, a scribe who elusively refers to himself only as a student of the Umbrians undertook a daunting task on behalf of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 690): to compile for ‘all Catholics...

Titulature and Medieval Rulers

Christian Raffensperger

Christian Raffensperger is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University, Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Director of the Premodern and Ancient World Studies Program. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Kingdom of Rus’

Arc Humanities Press, 2017

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...Titulature has actually long been a problem with translating (both literally and metaphorically) the Middle Ages for the modern world. The meanings and uses of titles change over time, titles are appropriated from others, and our modern...

Siblings of Cain

Erin V. Abraham

Erin V. Abraham is a lecturer in the Honors Program and an adjunct lecturer in the History and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society : Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials

Amsterdam University Press, 2016

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...Perhaps the clearest example of the early penitentials’ shared interest in the intersection of the social and the spiritual emerges in their censures of violence. Although they receive less attention for this issue than they do...

Discourses of the Dead: Popular Intuitions, Christian Doctrines and Epidemic Disease

Marilyn Dunn

Marilyn Dunn is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–C.700 : Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife

Continuum, 2009

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...Non-Christian Multiple Souls and the Single Christian Soul One of the most fundamental differences between Christianity and many other religions lies in the area of soul belief. Amongst the Native American peoples, in Oceanic cultures...