Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272
Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272

Author: Laura Cleaver

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0198802625

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Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World examines surviving medieval manuscripts from 1066 to 1272 and the people and processes involved in their creation. It addresses the reception and circulation of histories, and the different ways in which imagery and text could be used to create nuanced accounts of the past.

Historical Writing in England
Historical Writing in England

Author: Antonia Gransden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 1951

ISBN-13: 1136190287

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Using a variety of sources including chronicles, annals, secular and sacred biographies and monographs on local histories Historical Writing in England by Antonia Gransden offers a comprehensive critical survey of historical writing in England from the mid-sixth century to the early sixteenth century. Based on the study of the sources themselves, these volumes also offer a critical assessment of secondary sources and historiographical development.

The Sun
The Sun

Author: Beth Alesse

Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1682033414

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The Sun: Images from Space has extraordinary images of beauty with over 130 incredible details of our Sun taken from space. These images come from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Mission instruments in conjunction with other various instruments such as those on the Mars Rover. Our Sun, a yellow dwarf star, is the main source of energy for life on Earth. Life grows and thrives because of it. The sun is at the middle of our solar system. Yet until recently, we have not been able to see much of it or even observe its basic characteristics because of its blinding electromagnetic energy. Taken from space, these images were assembled using data collected by NASA and their partners showing our Sun as has not been revealed to us here on Earth, 93 million miles away. See the coronal mass ejections, electric currents, magnetic fields, solar wind, photosphere the chromosphere, the corona, and the hot plasma soup.

Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England
Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England

Author: Antonia Gransden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0826439462

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In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the 16th century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble 14th-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 9780521414111

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The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted widely to include the Near East and North Africa. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of events - ecclesiastical and secular - and major developments in an age marked by the transformation of the position of the papacy in a process fuelled by a radical reformation of the church, the decline of the western and eastern empires, the rise of western kingdoms and Italian elites, and the development of governmental structures, the beginnings of the recovery of Spain from the Moors and the establishment of western settlements in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades.