RODNEY THOMSON
Biographic Data
| ID | 5764520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | RODNEY THOMSON |
| GIVEN NAMES | RODNEY |
| FAMILY NAME | THOMSON |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided…
European Book in the Twelfth Century
Medieval Maps at Merton College, Oxford
One thing of which we can be sure about maps from the western European Middle Ages is that many more have perished than have survived, and that many of those now lost have left no trace.1 Written r
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey
The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group of English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm ( ob. c. 709) belongs most of the credit for setting the recently founded community on its feet and for making it a by-word throughout the British Isles for the pursuit of divine and secular learning. 2 During his abbacy Malmesbu…
Twelfth–century documents from Bury St Edmunds Abbey
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
Twelfth–century documents from Bury St Edmunds Abbey
William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources
In his great history of England, the Gesta regum Anglorum, completed in 1125, William of Malmesbury included digressions on continental affairs. One of these, on the Merovingian and Carolingian monarchs, provides an interesting study of William's historical method. His Frankish sources are difficult to identify, but we are helped by the survival of the late twelfth-century English MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. class d.39. This book contains, …
Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey
The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group of English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm ( ob. c. 709) belongs most of the credit for setting the recently founded community on its feet and for making it a by-word throughout the British Isles for the pursuit of divine and secular learning. 2 During his abbacy Malmesbu…
Medieval Maps at Merton College, Oxford
One thing of which we can be sure about maps from the western European Middle Ages is that many more have perished than have survived, and that many of those now lost have left no trace.1 Written r
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided…
European Book in the Twelfth Century
History (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)