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• Introduction: Harley manuscript geographies
• 1 Harley lyrics and Hereford clerics: the implications of mobility
• 2 Captives among us: Harley 2253 and the Jews of medieval Hereford
• 3 Histoire imparfaite: the counterfactual lessons of Gilote et Johane
• 4 Dying with Harley
• 2253: last lyric things Epilogue: ye goon to.Hereford? Regional devotion and England's other St Thomas Appendix: Harley Manuscript contents Index
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This study brings new methodologies of literary geography to bear upon the unique contents of a codex known as British Library MS Harley 2253. The Harley manuscript was produced upon England's Welsh March, by a scribe whose generation died in the Black Death. It contains a diverse set of writings: love-lyrics and devotional literature, political songs and fabliaux, saints' lives, courtesy texts, bible stories and travelogues. These works alternate between languages (Middle English, Anglo-Norman and Latin) but operate in conversation with one another. The introduction explores how this fragmentary miscellany keeps being sutured into 'whole'-ness by commentary upon it. Individual chapters examine different genres and social groupings and demonstrate that there are many Harley landscapes still waiting to be discovered. It will be of great value to those studying literary history, medieval studies, cultural geography, gender studies, Jewish studies and book history. -- .
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• Important background information on homiliaries, hispano-mozarabic manuscripts, and spanish lent
• Introduction to Homiliaries
• Hispano-Mozarabic Manuscripts
• Historical Background on the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite
• Origin and Dating of the Homiliae Toletanae
• Positioning of the Homiliae Toletanae within the Context of the Hispano-Mozarabic Lectionary Tradition
• Spanish Lent.
• The General Formation of Lent
• Lent in Early Spanish Sources
• Excurus : The Forced Conversion of the Jews and the Continuance of Adult Initiation
• From Ildefonso to the Liber Ordinum and the Liber Commicus
• Lent in the Manuscript Tradition
• An analysis of the lent homilies found in the homiliae toletanae
• Introduction to the Lenten Homilies
• An Analysis of the Lenten Homilies
• Quinquagesima
• In Carnes Tollendas
• The Monday of Lent
• Lent I
• Lent II
• Lent III ? Mediante
• Lazarus Sunday
• Palm Sunday Matins
• Palm Sunday Mass
• Holy Thursday Mass
• Good Friday
• Easter Vigil
• Easter Sunday
• Four Assorted Homilies
• Homily #30
• Homily Add. 10a
• Homily Add. 10b
• Homily Add. 11.

"This book takes seriously the need fora two-fold shift in methodology within the field of liturgical studies and serves as a model for future historical work. The first shift necessary in liturgical studies is a shift to sources other than the central liturgical texts, i.e. the Missal, breviary, lectionary, and books of rites. The second shift necessary in the field is a greater appreciation of the diversity of liturgical celebrations within the Church. In order to engage in such a study, this book analyzes a non-traditional liturgical source within a little-studied liturgical tradition. The source that provides the basis of this study is the Homiliae Toletanae (British Library, Add. 30853), a homiliary for Mass found in the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite. The Homiliae Toletanae dates to circa s. vii/viii and survives in one s. x/xi manuscript. It contains homilies for every major temporal and sanctoral feast in the calendar of Toledo. The Homiliae Toletanae is a valuable manuscript for reconstructing and understanding the liturgical practices of circa s. vii/viii Toledo. This study looks only at the Lenten homilies found within the Homiliae Toletanae in order to supplement what is already known about the Lenten practices of late Visigothic and early Moz-arabic Spain. In reconstructing the practices of Lent in s. vii/viii Spain, this study explores the two major themes of Lent, penance and initiation, and their relationship to one another. It reflects on what some scholars consider a crisis in the thematic understanding of Lent in the s. vii/viii. Coupled with this crisis is a shift from adult initiation to infant initiation in this period. This study argues that this crisis of meaning and the subsequent shift to a more penitential understanding of Lent was a direct result of the decline in adult initiation in this period. The dominant role that fasting and almsgiving played in the Lenten life of late Visigothic and early Mozarabic Spain is also analyzed. In order to conduct this study, this volume utilizes textual criticism as well as the comparative method in liturgical studies. The comparative method is based on the work of Anton Baumstark, the Mateos School, and Paul Bradshaw. This method is used to reconstruct liturgical practices based on the manuscript evidence. The first part of this book contextualizes the Homiliae Toletanae within the larger Hispano-Mozarabic and Christian tradition, and discusses its origin, dating, composition, and general content. The second part of this book is an in-depth look at the twenty-three homilies of Lent found within the Homiliae Toletanae. The goal of this volume is to show that liturgical traditions, like the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite, have a profound creativity and uniqueness. Their patrimony is rich, and they contain many liturgical insights, both historically and pastorally."--Page 4 of cover.

This book takes seriously the need for a two-fold shift in methodology within the field of liturgical studies and serves as a model for future historical work. The first shift necessary in liturgical studies is a shift to sources other than the central liturgical texts, i.e. the Missal, breviary, lectionary, and books of rites. The second shift necessary in the field is a greater appreciation of the diversity of liturgical celebrations within the Church. In order to engage in such a study, this book analyzes a non-traditional liturgical source within a little-studied liturgical tradition. The source that provides the basis for this study is the Homiliae Toletanae (British Library, Add. 30853), a homiliary for Mass found in the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite. The Homiliae Toletanae dates to circa the seventh/eighth centuries and survives in one tenth/eleventh-century manuscript. It contains homilies for every major temporal and sanctoral feast in the calendar of Toledo. The Homiliae Toletanae is a valuable manuscript for reconstructing and understanding the liturgical practices of seventh/eighth-century Toledo. This study looks only at the Lenten homilies found within the Homiliae Toletanae in order to supplement what is already known about the Lenten practices of late Visigothic and early Mozarabic Spain. In reconstructing the practices of Lent in seventh/eighth-century Spain, this study explores the two major themes of Lent, penance and initiation, and their relationship to one another. It reflects on what some scholars consider a crisis in the thematic understanding of Lent in the seventh/eighth centuries. Coupled with this crisis is a shift from adult initiation to infant initiation in this period. This study argues that this crisis of meaning and the subsequent shift to a more penitential understanding of Lent was a direct result of the decline in adult initiation in this period. The dominant role that fasting and almsgiving played in the Lenten life of late Visigothic and early Mozarabic Spain is also analyzed. In order to conduct this study, this volume utilizes textual criticism as well as the comparative method in liturgical studies. The comparative method is based on the work of Anton Baumstark, the Mateos School, and Paul Bradshaw. This method is used to reconstruct liturgical practices based on the manuscript evidence. The first part of this book contextualizes the Homiliae Toletanae within the larger Hispano-Mozarabic and Christian tradition, and discusses its origin, dating, composition, and general content. The second part of this book is an in-depth look at the twenty-three homilies of Lent found within the Homiliae Toletanae. The goal of this volume is to show that liturgical traditions, like the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite, have a profound creativity and uniqueness. Their patrimony is rich, and they contain many liturgical insights, both historically and pastorally.
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• Origins Kingdoms and Conversion Mercia and its Neighbours The Rise of the West Saxons The Emergence of England Language, Learning and Literature Natural Science and Medicine Reforming the Kingdom and the Church Music Art in the Kingdom of England Conquests and Landscape.
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The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated new book - which accompanies a landmark British Library exhibition - presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, examining outstanding and beautiful objects such as highlights from the Staffordshire hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial. At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.
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The British Library's map collection is the national cartographic collection of Britain and numbers around four million maps dating from 15 CE to 2017 CE. These include road maps drawn for 13th century pilgrims and sea charts for 17th-century pirates. They include the first printed map to show the Americas and the last to show English-controlled Calais. They include the world's biggest and smallest atlases. They include maps for kings and queens, popes, ministers, schoolchildren, soldiers, tourists. There are maps which changed the world. As well as comprehensively showcasing the varied and surprising treasures of the British Library's "banquet of maps" for the first time, this book will examine the evolution of humanity's perceptions of the world through maps. By looking at how this map collection was assembled principally over two and a half centuries but in reality over a millennium, the book comprises a cartographic history of the world, as well as vivid celebration of the world's best map collection's best maps.
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• Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of tables Terms used List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - (Re)Introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex The Passion of Saint Christopher The Wonders of the East The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Beowulf Judith Reading the Nowell Codex in the eleventh century Suggestions
• Chapter 2 - Reconstructing the Nowell Codex Dating and placing the scribes of the Nowell Codex Extant gatherings Judith, St Christopher and the missing gatherings Sequence of production Suggestions
• Chapter 3 - The Images in The Wonders of the East A `collection of absurdities'? The two artists of the Nowell Wonders Frames Colours The planning and control of the images Variant styles-- multiple exemplars Suggestions
• Chapter 4 - Scribe A's performance The value of the Nowell Codex's prose texts Corrections Scribe A's density of copying in Beowulf Usage of capitals Minor capitals Form of capitals Explicits and incipits Scribe A and the metre of Beowulf Suggestions
• Chapter 5 - Scribe B's performance Corrections Scribe B's density of copying
• 179 (BL182): The palimpsest Usage and form of major capitals Minor capitals Scribal decoration Suggestions
• Chapter 6 - Communal manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England
• Communal use of manuscripts
• Communal production of manuscripts
• `Supervisors', `directors', and `compilers'
• Final suggestions
• Appendix 1 - Sections and structural ideas in The Wonders of the East
• Appendix 2 - Images and colours used in The Wonders of the East
• Appendix 3 - Scribal corrections in the Nowell Codex Scribe A's corrections Scribe B's corrections
• Appendix 4 - Readers' annotations
• 103 (BL106)v.19: the explicit to Wonders 111(119) (BL122)v.20, 112 (120) (BL123)v.12, and 117(109) (BL112)r.17: f-shaped marks
• 164 (BL167)v.18: marginal cross
• 128 (BL131)r: drypoint sketches
• 202 (BL205): marginal designs Works cited Manuscripts Editions and facsimiles Critical texts.
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In Communal Creativity in the Making of the `Beowulf' Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour and arguing for a date in Cnut's reign. He presents evidence for the use of more than three exemplars and at least two artists as well as two scribes, making this an intentional and creative re-presentation uniting literature religious and heroic, in poetry and in prose. He goes on to set it in the broader context of manuscript production in late Anglo-Saxon England as one example among many of communities using old literature in new ways, and of scribes working together, making mistakes, and learning.
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In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127 depict Moses with a variety of distinctive visual attributes. Broderick presents a compelling thesis that these motifs, in particular the image of the horned Moses, have a Hellenistic Egyptian origin. He argues that the visual construct of Moses in the Old English Hexateuch may have been based on a Late Antique, no longer extant, prototype influenced by works of Hellenistic Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king, military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe. These Jewish writings were utilized in turn by early Christian apologists such as Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea. Broderick's analysis of this Moses imagery ranges widely across religious divides, art-historical religious themes, and classical and early Jewish and Christian sources. Herbert Broderick is one of the foremost historians in the field of Anglo-Saxon art, with a primary focus on Old Testament iconography. Readers with interests in the history of medieval manuscript illustration, art history, and early Jewish and Christian apologetics will find much of interest in this profusely illustrated study.
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• Cover
• Half title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• ONE Ways and Means: Methodology
• TWO Traces of a Late Antique Exemplar in MS Claudius B.iv: The Book of Genesis
• THREE â#x80; #x9C; And there arose no more a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses . . .â#x80; #x9D;
• FOUR â#x80; #x9C; . . . and he knew not that his face was horned . . .â#x80; #x9D;
• FIVE The Veil of Moses
• SIX Horns of Pan/Horns of Light
• SEVEN Additional Attributes of Moses
• EIGHT Conclusion: All Horns/No Hats
• Notes

In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127 depict Moses with a variety of distinctive visual attributes. Broderick presents a compelling thesis that these motifs, in particular the image of the horned Moses, have a Hellenistic Egyptian origin. He argues that the visual construct of Moses in the Old English Hexateuch may have been based on a Late Antique, no longer extant, prototype influenced by works of Hellenistic Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king, military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe. These Jewish writings were utilized in turn by early Christian apologists such as Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea. Broderick's analysis of this Moses imagery ranges widely across religious divides, art-historical religious themes, and classical and early Jewish and Christian sources. Herbert Broderick is one of the foremost historians in the field of Anglo-Saxon art, with a primary focus on Old Testament iconography. Readers with interests in the history of medieval manuscript illustration, art history, and early Jewish and Christian apologetics will find much of interest in this profusely illustrated study.
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• Introduction
• Exotic
• Native
• Domestic
• Paradoxical

• Introduction: The East India Company and British views of India
• Politics, power, and port cities
• Places
• People and portraits
• Patronage
• Conclusion: the end of the Company.

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the role it played in Indian life. They mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes towards India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. But few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and their implications for the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library, telling the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and places they depict. It will present a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures.

• Introduction
• 1. T-S G1.78: Natronai's Hundred Blessings
• 2. T-S NS 123.12: Preliminary Readings and Prayers
• 3. T-S H18.4: Poetic 'Amida
• 4. Or.1080 3.2: 'Amida with Strong Emotions
• 5. Add.3160.2: Evening Prayer and Bibliographical Crux
• 6. T-S NS 123.92: Weekday and Shabbat Eves Compared
• 7. T-S 8H16.23: Differences on Friday Evenings
• 8. T-S NS 299.150: Polemical Reading against Karaites
• 9. Add.3159.4: Shabbat Beginnings and Endings
• 10. T-S 6H6.6: folio
• 4: Qaddish in Strange Form
• 11. T-S NS 235.171: Musaf for Rosh Hodesh
• 12. Add.3160.9: Rosh Hodesh to Rosh Ha-Shana
• 13. T-S 10H3.4 and T-S NS 235.157a & 157b: Prayers for Rosh Hodesh and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 14. T-S 8H23.2: Prayers for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 15. T-S H8.79: Verses and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 16. T-S NS 155.1: Ways to Start Yom Kippur
• 17. T-S 10H4.1: Shemini 'Aseret's Own Rite
• 18. T-S H2.124: Special Qiddush for Pesah
• 19. T-S H2.152: Ma Nishtana in Five
• 20. Add.3159.13: Haggada before Meal
• 21. T-S 8H24.3: Prayers for Pesah
• 22. T-S NS 89.36: Additions for Hanukka
• 23. T-S NS 196.66: Haftara Blessings
• 24. Or.1080 15.4 & T-S AS 110.359: Unusual Grace
• 25. T-S NS 123.31: Instructions in Aramaic List of Works Cited and Abbreviations Indexes
• Sources
• Names
• Subjects.
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Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for future studies, consists of a selection of transcribed and translated Genizah fragments that contain some of the earliest known texts of rabbinic prayers. Reif describes in detail the physical makeup of each manuscript and assesses the manner in which the scribe has tackled the matter of recording a preferred version. He then places the prayer texts included in the manuscript within the context of Jewish liturgical history, explaining the degree to which they were innovative and whether they established precedents to be followed in later prayer-books. He offers specialists and more general readers a fresh understanding of the historical, theological, linguistic, and social factors that may have motivated adjustments to their liturgical formulations.
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• Introduction
• 1. T-S G1.78: Natronai's Hundred Blessings
• 2. T-S NS 123.12: Preliminary Readings and Prayers
• 3. T-S H18.4: Poetic 'Amida
• 4. Or.1080 3.2: 'Amida with Strong Emotions
• 5. Add.3160.2: Evening Prayer and Bibliographical Crux
• 6. T-S NS 123.92: Weekday and Shabbat Eves Compared
• 7. T-S 8H16.23: Differences on Friday Evenings
• 8. T-S NS 299.150: Polemical Reading against Karaites
• 9. Add.3159.4: Shabbat Beginnings and Endings
• 10. T-S 6H6.6: folio
• 4: Qaddish in Strange Form
• 11. T-S NS 235.171: Musaf for Rosh Hodesh
• 12. Add.3160.9: Rosh Hodesh to Rosh Ha-Shana
• 13. T-S 10H3.4 and T-S NS 235.157a & 157b: Prayers for Rosh Hodesh and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 14. T-S 8H23.2: Prayers for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 15. T-S H8.79: Verses and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana
• 16. T-S NS 155.1: Ways to Start Yom Kippur
• 17. T-S 10H4.1: Shemini 'Aseret's Own Rite
• 18. T-S H2.124: Special Qiddush for Pesah
• 19. T-S H2.152: Ma Nishtana in Five
• 20. Add.3159.13: Haggada before Meal
• 21. T-S 8H24.3: Prayers for Pesah
• 22. T-S NS 89.36: Additions for Hanukka
• 23. T-S NS 196.66: Haftara Blessings
• 24. Or.1080 15.4 & T-S AS 110.359: Unusual Grace
• 25. T-S NS 123.31: Instructions in Aramaic List of Works Cited and Abbreviations Indexes
• Sources
• Names
• Subjects.
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Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for future studies, consists of a selection of transcribed and translated Genizah fragments that contain some of the earliest known texts of rabbinic prayers. Reif describes in detail the physical makeup of each manuscript and assesses the manner in which the scribe has tackled the matter of recording a preferred version. He then places the prayer texts included in the manuscript within the context of Jewish liturgical history, explaining the degree to which they were innovative and whether they established precedents to be followed in later prayer-books. He offers specialists and more general readers a fresh understanding of the historical, theological, linguistic, and social factors that may have motivated adjustments to their liturgical formulations.
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• Avant-propos : Une liturgie de droit divin
• La royauté sacrée
• Un héritage venu du fond des âges
• La royauté chrétienne à la française
• Les premiers sacres des rois francs
• Le legs de Charlemagne
• De la royauté féodale à la monarchie absolue
• Les lieux du sacre
• Notre-Dame de Reims, la cathédrale des sacres
• La Sainte Ampoule
• Le roi thaumaturge
• Le cérémonial du sacre
• Les livres des sacres
• Les étapes de la cérémonie du sacre
• L'arrivée et la veillée
• Le lever du roi
• L'entrée et le serment
• Le rituel de chevalerie
• Les onctions
• La remise des insignes
• L'épée, les éperons, les deux sceptres, les deux couronnes
• L'intronisation
• La grand-messe
• Le sacre de la reine
• Le festin, une cène royale
• L'ordo de Charles V
• Notices chronologiques
• Généalogie des rois et reines sacrés.

"Le sacre du roi est au coeur de la constitution de l'identité française. Scellant l'alliance du peuple et du monarque, il représente l'idéal d'une société chrétienne organisée et d'une nation indépendante. De Pépin le Bref en 751 à Charles X en 1825, 76 rois et reines de France ont été sacrés au cours de cérémonies minutieusement ritualisées. Grâce au Saint Chrême qui, selon la légende, a été envoyé par une colombe pour le baptême de Clovis à Reims, le roi de France est considéré comme "oint du Seigneur". Cette sacralité le rend indépendant des puissances terrestres et le fait, selon la formule de Philippe Auguste, "empereur en son royaume". Magnifiquement illustré d'enluminures, de tableaux et d'objets provenant du trésor royal, le livre retrace l'histoire de la royauté sacrée à la française. Marqué d'abord par des similitudes avec les sacres des rois d'Angleterre et des empereurs germaniques, le rituel a pris à partir du nie siècle des caractères propres au "roi très chrétien". Présentant d'abord les fonctions symboliques et politiques de cette onction unique en Europe, qui puise ses origines dans la Bible, l'historien Patrick Demouy décrit ensuite, avec l'appui d'une riche iconographie, les sept heures du majestueux cérémonial, de l'arrivée du roi à Reims jusqu'à l'étonnante "guérison des écrouelles". Enfin, il déroule, sous forme de notices détaillées, le contexte et le récit des 76 sacres royaux français. L'ouvrage donne à découvrir L'Ordo du Sacre de Charles V, un exceptionnel manuscrit royal de 1365, pour la première fois traduit en français et présenté dans son intégralité."--Page 4 of cover.