A Knight for the Runaway Nun
A Knight for the Runaway Nun

Author: Carol Townend

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0369730380

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An evocative friends-to-lovers story set in Medieval France From novice nun… To unexpected bride! Lady Bernadette is poised to take Holy Orders when Sir Hugo of Nérac, her father’s captain of the guards, arrives with news that her sister is expecting. Petrified of childbirth since her mother died, Bernadette races home. But now that she’s left the convent, her father wants her wed! There’s only one solution: marry Hugo, her childhood friend. But can she risk consummating their marriage and conceiving…even if his kisses are unbearably tempting? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Convent Brides Book 1: A Knight for the Defiant Lady Book 2: A Knight for the Runaway Nun

Harlequin Historical July 2023 - Box Set 2 of 2
Harlequin Historical July 2023 - Box Set 2 of 2

Author: Millie Adams

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 757

ISBN-13: 0369730585

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Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This boxset includes: THE GOVERNESS AND THE BROODING DUKE By Millie Adams (Regency) Employed to tame the Duke of Westmere’s disobedient children, Mary should avoid entanglement with their widower father. If only she didn’t crave the forbidden intimacy of their moments alone… HER GRACE'S DARING PROPOSAL by Joanna Johnson (Regency) Widowed duchess Isabelle’s wealth has made her the target of fortune hunters. A convenient marriage to mercenary Joseph will protect her but could also put her heart in danger… A KNIGHT FOR THE RUNAWAY NUN Convent Brides by Carol Townend (Medieval) Having left the convent before taking her Holy Orders, Lady Bernadette is horrified when her father wants her wed! The only solution—marrying childhood friend Sir Hugo.

Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature
Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature

Author: John E. Keller

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0813186846

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The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations with which the original manuscripts were illustrated have remained almost totally unknown on the shelves of the great European libraries. To redress this woeful neglect, two noted scholars here present a generous selection from this great visual treasury including many examples never before reproduced. John E. Keller and Richard P. Kinkade have chosen five representative works, dating from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth, to illustrate the richness of early Spanish narrative art. Together, these five works encompass the entire range of narrative techniques and iconography to be found in medieval Spain, and reflect both foreign and native Spanish artistic tendencies. The authors' analyses of the relation between verbalizations and visualizations will provide students of medieval art and literature a wealth of new information expanding our knowledge of this fascinating period. The beauty of many of the illuminations speaks for itself.

The Nun's Tale
The Nun's Tale

Author: Candace Robb

Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1626819777

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“Engrossing . . . Imbued with the flavor of English medieval life, Robb’s story melds true events with fiction to create a gripping historical mystery” (Publishers Weekly). When young nun Joanna Calverley dies of a fever in the town of Beverley in the summer of 1365, she is buried quickly for fear of the plague. But a year later, Archbishop Thoresby learns of a woman who has arrived in York claiming to be the resurrected nun, talking of relic-trading and miracles. And death seems to ride in her wake. The archbishop sends Owen Archer to retrace the woman’s journey, an investigation that leads him across the north from Leeds to Beverley to Scarborough. Along the way he encounters Geoffrey Chaucer, a spy for the king of England, who believes there is a connection between the nun’s troubles, renegade mercenaries, and the powerful Percy family. Back in York, however, Owen’s wife, Lucie, pregnant with their first child, has won the confidence of the mysterious nun and realizes that there are secrets hidden in the woman’s seemingly mad ramblings . . . Based on an enigmatic entry in the records of Clementhorpe Nunnery, this authentic, gripping mystery conjures a fourteenth century ripe with forbidden passions and political intrigue. “[Robb] lives up to the standard set by master medievalist Ellis Peters.” —Booklist

The Earl's Egyptian Heiress
The Earl's Egyptian Heiress

Author: Heba Helmy

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0369747410

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A Victorian romance set between Egypt and London A season with the earl For the Egyptian heiress Ranya Radwan’s mission is clear: restore her family’s honor by retrieving the deed to their business from the Earl of Warrington. Until she finds herself enthralled by the new earl, Owen. Accompanying him from Egypt to England to find the deed, Ranya’s swept into an unfamiliar world of society balls and luncheons, but is captivated waltzing in Owen’s arms. Yet her duty to her family means returning to Egypt, not following her heart… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

The Story of Lutheran Sects
The Story of Lutheran Sects

Author: Aarne Ruben

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-06-17

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1527555194

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This book highlights the history of Reformation through the list of “sects”, which emerged soon after dissent between Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli became public. It is based on the vast compendiums of heretics, which were taken from the opusculi by such minor-known Catholic authors as Jacques Gaultier and Friedrich Staphylus. Some traces of their activities led to Old Livonia, where, after receiving a letter of support from Luther in 1525, the people were exalted for participating in the Reformation. The sophisticated story of iconoclasm in Tallinn, Riga and Tartu is another focus of this book.

Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540
Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540

Author: F. Donald Logan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-16

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780521520225

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The 'runaway religious' were monks, canons and friars who had taken vows of religion and who, with benefit of neither permission nor dispensation, fled their monasteries and returned to a life in the world, usually replacing the religious habit with lay clothes. No legal exit for the discontented was permitted - religious vows were like marriage vows in this respect - until the financial crisis caused by the Great Schism created a market in dispensations for priests in religious orders to leave, take benefices, and live as secular priests. The church therefore pursued runaways with her severest penalty, excommunication, in the express hope that penalties would lead to the return of the straying sheep. Once back, whether by free choice or by force, the runaway was received not with a feast for a prodigal but, in a rite of stark severity, with the imposition of penalties deemed suitable for a sinner.

The Gothic Novel 1790–1830
The Gothic Novel 1790–1830

Author: Ann B. Tracy

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0813186684

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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels—such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.