Author: Alixe Bovey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: manuscripts, medieval, life, grotesques, monsters
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-09-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0802085121
ISBN-13: 9780802085122

The margins of medieval manuscripts teem with sirens, satyrs, griffins, unicorns, dragons and other bizarre creatures. Commonplace animals are twisted together in impossible combinations, and human bodies are merged with animal forms in ways that are often both comic and ghastly. Images of these monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval people they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable dangers. But what were they doing there? Were they meaningless distractions, or did these strange beasts have other symbolic meanings? Alixe B

Author: Pamela Porter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: manuscripts, medieval, life, warfare
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0802084001
ISBN-13: 9780802084002

The glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived to provide direct insight into the way that war was waged in the Middle Ages. For a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation and the information preserved in paintings, sculptures, carvings, and other pictorial sources. The most numerous by far of these are the miniatures and drawings found in manuscript books, partly because books tend to survive be

Author: Celia Fisher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: manuscripts, medieval, life, flowers
Number of Pages: 65
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0802037968
ISBN-13: 9780802037961

Plant and flower motifs were originally used in manuscript borders for ornamental and symbolic reasons, but during the fifteenth century, illuminators in Ghent and Bruges achieved such botanical realism and variety that their fascination with the flowers themselves is evident.Each section of Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts includes relevant details of the manuscripts from which the illustrations are taken, and the concluding section discusses manuscript production in relation to these margins. Celia Fisher looks at all kinds of flowers, from the conservative lily and rose, to the lesser known

Author: Sophie Page
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: manuscripts, medieval, life, magic
Number of Pages: 65
Published: 2004-09-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0802037976
ISBN-13: 9780802037978

Magic existed in diverse forms in the Middle Ages, from simple charms to complex and subversive demonic magic. Its negative characteristics were defined by theologians who sought to isolate undesirable rituals and beliefs, but there were also many who believed that the condemned texts and practices were valuable and compatible with orthodox piety. Magic in Medieval Manuscripts explores the place of magic in the medieval world and the contradictory responses it evoked, through an exploration of images and texts in British Library manuscripts. These range from representations of the magician, wi

Author: Horatio W. Dresser
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: manuscripts, quimby
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0766140520
ISBN-13: 9780766140523

1921. Many attempts had been made to gain access to the Quimby manuscripts, but never before had it been accomplished. Dr. P.P. Quimby wrote many documents relative to his views regarding mental and spiritual healing. Many critics of Mary Baker Eddy believe that her later teachings came from theories of Dr. Quimby, as she had been one of his patients. Contents: biographical sketch; history of the manuscripts; Quimby’s restoration to health; mesmeric period; principles discovered; intermediate period; early writings; contemporary testimony; letters from and to patients; letters to patient

Author: Benedict J. Williamson
Publisher: Invisible College Press, LLC
Keywords: manuscripts, rosicrucian
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1931468125
ISBN-13: 9781931468121

The Rosicrucian Fraternity announced their existence some four centuries ago. Since then there has been much speculation about the brotherhood regarding their secrets, their history, and their existence. Time has spawned numerous imitators, voluble detractors, and earnest defenders of the Fraternity. The only certainty lies in the early manuscripts and publications; these works are presented together in this volume. Herein are all of the crucial Rosicrucian documents. The Fama Fraternitatis proclaims the existence of the brotherhood to the world and calls for sincere Christian refor

Author: William Hatch
Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
Keywords: manuscripts, syriac, dated, album
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2002-10
List price: $364.00
ISBN-10: 1931956537
ISBN-13: 9781931956536