Product Description: The Life of Christ (Vita Christi), written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work to have been preserved in Catalan and to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It was composed to provide spiritual direction for the nuns within the community of Poor Clares which Sor (i...read more

Product Description: This fascinating selection of 200 archive images, many previously unpublished, captures some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the former mining and textile town of Golborne during the last century. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, describing many aspects of life here during this time, including schooldays, street life, work and recreation, as well sporting events and celebrations...read more

Product Description: Francesc Eiximenis is an outstanding figure in the ranks of the mendicant orders who, in the late Middle Ages, strove to educate the lower echelons of society. Born in Gerona, around 1330, probably to a comfortable middle-class family, Eiximenis entered the Franciscan order at a very early age, studied in Oxford, and probably also in Paris, and obtained the degree of master of theology in Toulouse...read more