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THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH

EDITORS' PREFACE

This volume is presented to Professor Gordon Leff by several of his
any admirers in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the
history of medieval thought and religion during a scholarly career of
more than forty ycars. Gordon Leff, almost invariably known as Bunny
to his closest friends and colleagues since his undergraduate years at
Cambridge in the early 19s0s, would think it in the worst possible taste
to publicize his own remarkable achievements. But remarkable they
certainly been. With the appearance of his celebrated article on
The fourteenth century and the decline of Scholasticism' (Past and
Present, 1956) and of his Penguin survey of Medieval Thought: S
Augustine to Ockham two years later, the name of Gordon Leff
immediately became familiar among medievalists on both sides of
the Atlantic. At the same time his engagement with the deepest issue
in the philosophy of history, as well as the publication in 1961
The Tyranny of Concepts, put him in the forefront of fundamental
debates outside the confines of medieval thought and on both sidesof
the iron curtain. During the following decades his awe-inspiring
talents for the clucidation of theological, philosophical, and political
thought were applied in rapid succession to the work of many of the
most important figures in the history of medieval intellectual c
deavour, and in 1969 he turned again to another probing analysis of
history's epistemological problems in his History and Social Theory. The
ten substantial books and many articles written by Bunny Leff betwe
his first monograph, Bradwardine and the Pelagians, and his William of
Ockham: the Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse eighteen years later will
be a permanent memorial not only to his unique contribution to
scholarship and intellectual debate but also to a creative energy not
easily rivalled among English historians of his own or indeed any other
generation.

The two editors of this volume first came to know Bunny Leff only
after he had left the History Department of the University of
Manchester for the Department of History at the then new University
of York in 1965. One of us was a working colleague from his first
ing with Bunny, and the other was the latter's research student...
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FundacionRosacruz | Jan 11, 2018 |
This is an exceptionally thorough collection which includes virtually all the standard Robin Hood ballads, from the fifteenth century "Gest of Robin Hood' down through seventeenth and eighteenth century and the "Garland" ballads, followed by Robin Hood poems by Keats and Noyes . More unusually, it includes early brief plays based on Robin Hood and extracts from Anthony Munday's two late sixteenth century plays which did much to establish Robin Hood as the outlawed earl of Huntingdon, as well as from Ben Jonson's "The Sad Shepherd" a Nottingham Robin Hood play put on to celebration the Restoration in 1661, and extracts from Tennyson's late play "The Foresters. It closes with a selection of other outlaw poems --the Song of Trailbaston, Robin and Gamelyn, Adam Bell, the Danish Marsk Stig and even Jesse James. The editors of this volume chose to reproduce specific surviving texts rather than follow Child and others in combining texts to create an ideal version, so these pieces give a more realistic idea of how the Robin Hood literature was seen in its own time. The collection also has a very sensible scholarly introduction and useful appendixes of ballads, the Sloane MS life of Robin Hood (which the editors regard as valueless for historical information) and Robin Hood proverbs and place names. There is also a map of Robin Hood place names in the Sherwood/Barnesdale region.… (mer)
 
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antiquary | 2 andra recensioner | Nov 12, 2017 |
4026. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, by R. B. Dobson (read 22 May 2005) This book, published in 1970, is a compilation of contemporary or near contemporary accounts of the Peasants' Revolt. Fortunately most such accounts are in languages other than English so one did not have to wade thru old English very much. The accounts are not too interesting. The revolt lasted a very short time and the repression was less fierce than it might have been. I did not enjoy the book much but I now know more about the event than I did.… (mer)
 
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Schmerguls | Oct 16, 2007 |

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