Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library write by . This book was released on 1926. Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary
A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary write by Francis Young. This book was released on 2016. A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of stones and gems, the Peterborough Lapidary. Lapidaries (encyclopaedias of the 'virtues' of stones and minerals) were an essential resource for practitioners of natural and ritual magic as well as medicine. This late fifteenth-century manuscript from the library of Peterborough Cathedral describes 145 stones, portraying them as living beings whose properties range from giving the bearer the power to command spirits and foretell the future to healing numerous illnesses and communicating with spirits and the dead, along with instructions on how to release latent occult power from within stones. Many of the proposed uses of stones resemble the concerns of medieval necromancers, such as invisibility, love magic, power over animals and the creation of magical mirrors. pp. xliii+106; 2 column text; introduction; bibliography; analytical index; 8 b/w illustrations
The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Cathedral Church of Peterborough
The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Cathedral Church of Peterborough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Cathedral Church of Peterborough write by John Britton. This book was released on 1836. The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Cathedral Church of Peterborough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle write by Malasree Home. This book was released on 2015. The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the linguistic and cultural construction of one of the texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In the twelfth century, a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was rewritten at Peterborough Abbey, welding local history into an established framework of national events. This text has usually been regarded as an exception, a vernacular Chronicle written in a period dominated by Latin histories. This study, however, breaks new ground by considering the Peterborough Chronicle as much more than just an example of the accidental longevity of the Chronicle tradition. Close analysis reveals unique interpretations of events, and a very strong sense of communal identity, suggesting that the construction of this text was not a marginal activity, but one essential to the articulation of the abbey's image. This text also participates in a vibrant post-Conquest textual culture, in particular at Canterbury, including the writing of the bilingual F version of the Chronicle; its symbiotic relationship witha wider corpus of Latin historiography thus indicates the presence of shared sources. The incorporation of alternative generic types in the text also suggests the presence of formal hybridity, a further testament to a fluid and adaptable textual culture. Dr Malasree Home teaches at Newcastle University.
Building
Building - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building write by . This book was released on 1907. Building available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
