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Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509). This edition selects the principal household accounts from the period (1498-1509) during which she ran her own household entirely independent of her third husband, Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby.

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First edition for over 100 years of The Festial, the best-known of medieval English sermon collections, by the Augustinian canon, John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey. Volume 1 volume contains the Introduction and the first half of the text, Volume 2 (to be published in 2010) will contain the remainder of the text, Explanatory Notes, and Glossary.

First edition for over 100 years of The Festial, by the Augustinian canon John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, the best known medieval sermon collection. Volume 2 completes the edition begun with OS 334 (2009), and contains second half of the text, the Explanatory Notes, and Glossary.

The 'Festial' is a collection of sermons de tempore and de sanctis compiled by the Austin canon, John Mirk, probably around the late 1380s. It circulated widely in manuscript, undergoing one recension and one significant revision, of which the Advent and Nativity sermons were edited as MET 13. It was one of Caxton's earliest editions, printed first in 1483 (STC 17957) and again, in a different edition, in 1491 (STC 17959). Both editions were i...

Asien, im 12. Jahrhundert: Mongolenfürst Temujin (John Wayne) macht bei einem Beutezug die Tartarentochter Bortai (Susan Hayward) zu seiner Gefangenen. Bis die Widerspenstige seine Zuneigung widerspiegelt, ist noch ein langer Weg: Erst muss er die Mongolenstämme einigen, in einer gewaltigen Schlacht die Tartaren besiegen und zum Dschingis Khan ernannt werden.

The essays in this volume celebrate the career of the distinguished medievalist, Ronald Waldron. Fittingly, they focus on the Middle English alliterative tradition, but do not exclude material in other areas. Acting as a linking theme is a concern with the relationship of texts to their contexts, whether historical, philosophical, linguistic, or codicological. Topics discussed include feasting in Middle English alliterative poetry, setting and...