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Product Description: In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history...read more
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9780812247152 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband.
Product Description: For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by twoâand eventually threeâcompeting popes. The so-called Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting anxiety throughout Europeâan anxiety that reverberated throughout clerical circles and among the ordinary faithful...read more
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9780271027494 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $61.95
9780080316048, titled "Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs" | Pergamon Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $28.00 | also contains Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs
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9780271058641 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, November 30, 2012, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by twoâand eventually threeâcompeting popes.
Product Description: The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe. Spanning a wide field, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of and commentaries on scripture, accounts of visionary experiences, and devotional literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312293857 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 29, 2002), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe.
Product Description: This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts?In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a disorder different from the struggles of classical epic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804728102 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430.
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9780393970104 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.30
Product Description: "Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control), Blumenfeld-Kosinski ...read more
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9780801422928 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: "Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control), Blumenfeld-Kosinski .
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9780801499746 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "Vividly tracing the evolution of Caesarean birth from the early 1300s (when the operation was performed almost exclusively by midwives) through the Renaissance period (when midwives were considered witches and male surgeons took control), Blumenfeld-Kosinski .
Product Description: This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages. Bringing together fourteen essays by contributors representing a number of disciplines, it illuminates such key issues as the place of sanctity in society, the role of gender in the representation of sainthood, and the use of hagiographic conventions in other genres...read more
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9780801425073 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages.
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9780801497452 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages.
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