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Table of Contents: “…Isidore and the Synonyma in the British Isles -- 4. Vernacularization of the Synonyma: The Case of Vercelli xxii -- 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Making of the March, 1066-1283 -- 3 The Social and Economic March, 1067-1300 -- 4 The Frontier of Peoples, 1067-1300 -- 5 Kingdoms, Countries and Marches: the Context of the British Isles -- 6 Conclusion: the European Perspective -- Key Dates -- Bibliography -- Maps -- Index -- Back Cover…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Back Home Again -- To Cape Horn -- From Hermite to Duck -- The Death and Life of the British Isles -- How to Round Cape Horn -- The Undiscovered Land -- A Fjord for the Naming -- The Martyrs Insisted -- At Wulaia -- "The Wet and Cold Life."…”
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Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- English at the onset of the normative tradition / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English Among the Languages / Richard W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles -- Early Cistercian theology in England -- Ancrene wisse : a magnificent exemplar of early English mysticism -- "Female" versus "male" spirituality : a talking of the love of God and the meditations of the Monk of Farne -- Richard Rolle of Hampole : England's first great mystic -- Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls and its reception in England -- The cloud of unknowing and related tracts -- Walter Hilton : England's mystic theologian -- The singular vision of Julian of Norwich -- Margery Kempe : the shocking "fool in Christ" -- Some aspects of popularizing mysticism in late medieval England.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cupolas of Alghero -- Blood oranges : Andalucía -- Astrolabe and Cataplana : Portugal -- Spaccanapoli : split Naples -- The sun on its throne : Taormina -- Tasting the South : Italy -- Inside the color spectrum : Fez -- A paperweight for Colette : Burgundy -- From garden to garden : the British Isles -- Washed by time's waters : islands of Greece -- Bulls, poets, archangels : Crete and Mani -- Among friends : Scotland -- Aboard the Cevri Hasan : Turkey's Lycian Coast -- An armful of bougainvillea : Capri -- For example : Mantova -- Envoi: The riddle of home.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Italy : an Italian overview / Michael Talbot -- France : Paris and its environs / Julie Anne Sadie -- Northern Europe : German courts and cities / Geoffrey Webber -- Central Europe : the Austro-German courts / Susan Wollenberg -- The British Isles : private and public music / Peter Holman -- The Low Countries : the Netherlanders / Albert Dunning -- The Iberian Peninsula and its New World Colonies : the Spanish and Portuguese heritage / Louise K. …”

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Table of Contents: “…The British Isles : Celt and Saxon / Victor Kiernan -- The making of the French nation / Douglas Johnson -- The national question in Italy / Adrian Lyttelton -- The roots of the national question in Spain / Simon Barton -- Shifting nationalism : Belgians, Flemings and Walloons / Louis Vos -- The nation in German history / Walter Schmidt -- Nationalism and nation-state in Germany / Heinrich August Winkler -- The national identity of the Austrians / Ernst Bruckmüller -- The Czechs / Arnošt Klíma -- The national question in Hungary / Emil Niederhauser -- The union of Dalmatia with northern Croatia : a crucial question of the Croatian national integration in the nineteenth century / Miṙjana Gross -- The national question in Poland in the twentieth century / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Finland : from Napoleonic legacy to Nordic co-operation / Matti Klinge.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction:--The medieval professional reader and reception history, 1292-1641 /--Kathryn Kerby-Fulton ----Framing the Canterbury pilgrims for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript /--Maidie Hilmo ----Reading Piers Plowman C-text annotations : notes toward the classification of printed and written marginalia in texts from the British Isles 1300-1641 /--Carl James Grindley ----The Red Ink annotator of The book of Margery Kempe and his lay audience /--Kelly Parsons ----Scribe D and the marketing of Ricardian literature /--Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and--Steven Justice.…”

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Table of Contents: “…--Place-names: Ptolemy's Geography of the British Isles. English place names. Some prehistoric river-names. …”

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