Nicholas A Watson

The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the structures of thought and feeling they left behind ...

Liber florum celestis doctrine / The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching (Studies and Texts)

This volume provides the first edition and systematic study of the Liber florum celestis doctrine by the Benedictine John of Morigny. Until recently this work was known only through a chronicle report of its burning at Paris in 1323, on the grounds that it revived a condemned ritual called the Ars n...

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (Brepols Medieval Women Series)

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343–ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as “a simple creature unlettered,” Julian is now widely recognized as one of the great speculative theol...

[ Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic Magic in History By ( Author ) Apr-2004 Paperback

[ Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic Magic in History By ( Author ) Apr-2004 Paperback

The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

The Writings Of Julian Of Norwich: A Vision Showed To A Devout Woman And A Revelation Of Love

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman And a Revelation of Love

Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority

Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority

Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works

Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works