Durham Medieval and Renaissance Monographs and Essays

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The Twelfth-Century Renewal of Latin Metaphysics

Medieval metaphysics is usually bound up with Scholasticism and its influential exemplars, such as Aquinas and Duns Scotus. However, the foundations of the new discipline, which would reshape the entire ...

Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth Century

In the wake of religious conversion and the establishment of more stable political systems, the outskirts of Latin Christendom produced historical narratives providing their present identities with a ...

Building for England

Building for England focuses on the architectural patronage in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge of John Cosin, a cleric of the Church of England. The book draws together evidence for his extensive activity ...

Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy

Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy is a collection of twenty-one essays based on papers originally delivered at a conference commemorating the nine hundredth anniversary of Anselm's death in 1109. ...

Peace and Protection in the Middle Ages

That kings, prelates and even lowly freemen were, under certain specified conditions, capable of offering protection or 'peace' to others, usually their inferiors, is relatively well known. That a breach ...