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It is often forgotten that many people in late antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. These articles explore aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified in the works of two Christian poets, Ephrem the Syrian and Romanos the Melode.

This volume brings together Professor Cranz's published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of Renaisssance.

The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this text. It looks at the Norman relations with the Byzantine world, and includes several studies on the church.

How did the "peasantry" of early modern England react to the Reformation and to subsequent changes in their churches? Were they involved in founding dissenting churches? Could they even read? This volume brings together key papers on such subjects by social historian Margaret Spufford.

The multi-national region of Europe between the German-speaking lands and the former Soviet Union has witnessed various manifestations of nationalism over the 19th and 20th centuries. This work offers 11 of Professor Sugar's essays which seek to explain this nationalism.

This volume covers two closely related themes: the varieties of clerics and their hierarchical arrangements in western Europe in the early Middle Ages; and the visual depictions of clerics in early medieval manuscripts, which are shown to have reflected their hierarchical ordering.

The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic antiquity through to the 12th century. Such texts, studied and edited in this volume, include letters, tracts, sermons and canon law pieces.

This volume focuses on two key centres of the South Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the "golden age" of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries. The second, deals with Benevento and the abbey of St Sophia, exploring its development.

A collection of articles by Charles Trinkaus. He discusses Italian Renaissance humanists and philosophers who tended to affirm human capacities to shape earthly existence, despite the traditional limitations proposed by some scholastics and astrologers.

The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organization and spirituality, from its foundation in 910, until the end of the 12th century.

This fourth collection by Professor Andre Gouron presents a set of 20 studies on jurisprudence, jurists and legal practice in the 12th and 13th centuries. The focus is on the schools and traditions of Bologna and in France, but the coverage includes canon, Roman and customary law.

A collection of essays starting with the author's research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late-16th and early-17th-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city, and thence to the commerce of music printing and the book trade.

These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine during the 12th and 13th centuries. The studies contribute to a greater understanding of the nature of Frankish settlement with regard to fortification and accommodation.

An exploration of Monteverdi and his contemporaries. It discusses the rise of the "new music" for solo voice and basso continuo in late 16th- and early 17th-century Florence, then moves on to broader aesthetic issues crystallized in contemporary theoretical debate and musical practice.

Cardinal Reginald Pole was an important international figure of mid-16th-century Europe. These studies place him in his English, Italian and European contexts - political, intellectual and religious - and demonstrate how he tried to mediate between increasingly rigid religious positions.

Bonnie J. Blackburn's analysis and exploration of music just prior to the Baroque period offers insights into a range of musicians, composers, critics and patrons of the arts in 15th- and 16th-century Europe.

This collection looks at the relationships that bridged the Atlantic between 1700 and 1900, such as the transfer of people through the slave trade; the transfer of ideas (such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man); and the transfer of disease, and how these factors related to human mortality.

A study of the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the 17th century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners of medicine.

An analysis of the transformation of the mediaeval European image of the world in the period following the great discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. It focuses on geography, cartography and nautical science, addressing topics such as the concept of the terraqueous globe.

This volume addresses the important mediaeval dynamic of the competition between sees from an imperial Romano-Byzantine perspective. It demonstrates how the "imperator-basileus" and his deputy buttressed the late Roman and Byzantine vision of imperial vicegerency.

The papers collected in this volume all focus on medicine and science (natural philosophy) in the multicultural societies of the Spanish kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, between the 13th and the 17th centuries.

The dogmas of the divine origins of the Qur'an and the inimitable character of its language are firmly embedded in the Muslim faith - such that challenging them enters the realm of "unthinkable". However, the text has been variously interpreted and this book examines that interpretative tradition.

This volume reproduces Morimichi Watanabe's scholarly essays on Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64). Cusa was a philosopher, theologian and church statesman, and the essays in the book cover his thoughts and personal philosophy on many subjects throughout the 15th century.

By taking "space" to mean both the physical aspect of the settlement of people and the conceptions that underlie the choice of a particular type of settlement, this work looks at how the perception of space changes over time in the late antiquity and Byzantine eras.

Covering the span of Ottoman history, from the 8th century to the disappearance of its last traces of imperial structure in the early 20th century, the 16 articles in this book reflect the multitude of Ottoman pasts, and the need to challenge some of the perceived certainties about these pasts.

The investigation of power, marginality, sex and the body, and "taboo" subjects in this book provide a road into medieval Arabo-Islamic mentalities and a way of coming to grips with the textual strategies society used for grappling with them.

The main theme of this work is the interrelatedness of knowledge, of which models are prime instances, since in most, if not all, of their functions, establishing relations means cutting across lines that traditionally demarcate such separate domains as science and music.

The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to as "natural knowledge" - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. A study of the topics then discussed shows how science began to cast off some of its earlier theological supports.

The papers in this volume explore the issues of reason and belief in the age of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), focusing on the achievement both of his peers and of his little-known teacher, Roscelin of Compiegne. They synthesize the author's research into the dynamism of thinking at that time.

A study of liturgy in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine. The author addresses problems of cultural history, structural, historical and textual reconstruction, theological interpretation, and method involved in the modern scholarly debate on issues relating to liturgy.