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Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar
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Chapurukha M. Kusimba, J. Claire Odland, and Bennet Bronson, eds. Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 196 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00. Paper.
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar is the second beautifully illustrated, large-format edited collection concerning Malagasy textiles to come out in the past few years. Where the previously published Objects as Envoys (Kreamer & Fee 2002) focused largely on textiles used in exchanges with foreign powers in the nineteenth century, this volume ...
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Historic horn wins pride of place in Wirral museum; 900-year-old artefact is centrepiece of exhibit.(News)
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; ...centuries. With the Mayor was Jack Heery, from the Ranulf Higden Society, who is leading the Society's work on translating...organisations based in the borough. Next year, the Ranulf Higden Society will be publishing a translation of the proceedings...
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Historical sources of the Middle English verse life of St. AEthelthryth.(Essays)
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Finding time for romance: medieval Arthurian literary history.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
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Diogenes the cynic in the scholastic dialogues called De raris fabulis.(Notes)
Magazine article from: ANQ
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Cheshire including Chester. Records of Early English Drama
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Imagining a Medieval English Nation.(New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages)(Book review)
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The St. Albans Chronicle: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham. Vol. 1: 1376-1394
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; ...There may have been those of superior scholarship (William of Malmesbury) and those that captured a wider authence (Ranulf Higden), but none that could match either the scale or the remarkable continuity of their historical enterprise, which...
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Anniversaries
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Oxford to put key medieval records online.
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; ...University of Liverpool and King's College, London, on the initiative that includes the National Archives and The Ranulf Higden Society. The Hundred Years War is a significant era of history as it terminated three hundred years of British rule...
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Mind your language
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; ...a meaning it retained. John of Trevisa, a Cornishman who died in 1412, in his translation of a Latin history by Ranulf Higden, a monk of Chester, wrote, `Ethik, that is the sciens of thewes.' The agreeable word thewes, which sounds strong...
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