10-Minute Talks: 24 Messages Your Students Will Love

Sometimes you don't have their attention for very long. Whether you've planned for a short message or your program has run long, a ten-minute talk is sometimes all you have space for in your youth ministry. So make sure you make it ten minutes that really count!

The Vocabulary Builder program uses a systematic approach to building students' vocabulary by presenting words in context or information about word parts to help students unlock word meanings independently, and by requiring students to apply their knowledge of new words in reading and writing exercises.
Each book in this series is designed for a specific reading level and features readings from the humanities, social studies, and sciences, vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, assessment after each writing assigment, and a section on taking standardized tests.

Church and Chronicle in the Middle Age - Essays Presented to John Taylor

The decline of the Merovingians and the rise of the Garolingians is a topic that is usually seen through Carolingian eyes. In large measure this is the
inevitable outcome of the distribution of source-material. Apart from the Liber historiae Francorum and the continuations to the chronicle of Fredegar, most of our evidence is not actually contemporary, and the continuations were commissioned by members of the Carolingian family. This problem of the sources makes it particularly important for the Merovingianist to scrutinise his or her information with extreme care.

Treasure in the Medieval West

Treasure is a broad subject, which can be understood in a number of ways, from the economic to the aesthetic, the personal to the political; for the middle ages, it is both a powerful cultural reality and a metaphor. However, despite its importance, this is the first volume to be devoted to the subject. The articles bring together a variety of critical approaches and themes in different periods and contexts throughout the medieval period, covering subjects such as gender, fashion, patronage, ethnicity, death and burial, piety, display and poetics.

Petrarch - A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

A sophisticated but accessible handbook that illuminates Petrarch’s love of  classical culture, his devout Christianity, his public celebrity, and his struggle for inner peace, this encyclopedic volume covers both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings and the various genres in which he excelled: poem, tract, dialogue, oration, and letter. A biographical introduction and chronology anchor the book, making Petrarch an invaluable resource for specialists in Italian, comparative literature, history, classics, religious studies, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.