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  • The Decameron

    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth Edition

    Collection series Toronto Old English Studies
    Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the ... En savoir plus

    25,33 €

  • The Legendary Sources of Flaubert's Saint Julien

    Collection series University of Toronto Romance Series
    The sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers generally use traditional material. Superficial resemblances have led critics to conclude that Flaubert ... En savoir plus

    18,12 €

  • Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

    Collection series Anglo-Saxon Studies
    Early medieval England as seen through the lens of comparative and interconnected histories is the subject of this volume. Drawn from a range of disciplines, its chapters examine artistic, archaeological, literary, and historical artifacts, converging around the idea that the period may not only define itself, but is often defined from other perspectives, specifically here by modern scholarship ... En savoir plus

    19,56 €

  • The Book Unbound

    Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts

    Modifié par Stephen Partridge, Siân Echard ...
    Collection series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - ... En savoir plus

    25,02 €

  • Europe's Darkest Hour- Children's Medieval History Books

    par Baby Professor ...
    Your child must learn to like history and you are the key to making it happen. This book features Europe’s Darkest Hour – a good read for the bright young minds about medieval history. This educational material carefully selected the contents and made the structure to suit your kids’ rather fickle and almost-full minds. See how far you can go by getting a copy of this book. ... En savoir plus

    3,42 €

  • The World of Dante

    Six Studies in Language and Thought

    Collection series Heritage
    In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest tribute to Dante lies in the constant acquisition of a deeper knowledge of his work, the Society prescribed no common theme, but asked only that each paper should present an original contribution to Dante ... En savoir plus

    18,12 €

  • The Chronicle of Duke Erik

    A Verse Epic from Medieval Sweden

    Written in the 14th century and enjoying a Swedish national status similar to the English Beowulf, this fascinating tale with many levels of meaning reflects the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the age of chivalry. The rhyming verses are accompanied by prose renditions and commentary, making the work enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts. A valuable source ... En savoir plus

    31,20 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Gaimar's <I>Estoire des Engleis</I>: Kingship and Power

    par Gemma Wheeler ...
    Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is its author's sole surviving work. His translation and adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, expanded with a number of lengthy interpolations which appear to draw upon oral traditions and other, unknown written sources, is all that remains of an ambitious history which once reached back as far as Jason and the Golden Fleece. However, the extent of Gaimar's ... En savoir plus

    16,68 €

  • In the Doorway of All Worlds

    Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints

    par Robin M Bower ...
    Collection Livre 89 - Toronto Iberic
    The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the mester de clerecía.In the Doorway of All Worlds focuses on the four hagiographies Berceo produced as a unified body of poetic expression and world-building. Robin M. Bower traces the poet’s intricate ... En savoir plus

    50,15 €

  • Kindred Voices

    A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia

    par Michael Pifer ...
    The fascinating story of how premodern Anatolia’s multireligious intersection of cultures shaped its literary languages and poetic masterpiecesBy the mid-thirteenth century, Anatolia had become a place of stunning cultural diversity. Kindred Voices explores how the region’s Muslim and Christian poets grappled with the multilingual and multireligious worlds they inhabited, attempting to impart ... En savoir plus

    34,70 €

  • Discourse in Old Norse Literature

    The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of verbal exchanges in Old Norse sagas presents the modern reader with the opportunity to speak face-to-face, as it were, with these great voices of the past ... En savoir plus

    16,68 €

  • The Story of a Great Medieval Book

    Peter Lombard's 'Sentences'

    Collection series Rethinking the Middle Ages
    Peter Lombard, a twelfth-century theologian, authored one of the first Western textbooks of theology, the Book of Sentences. Here, Lombard logically arranged all of the major topics of the Christian faith. His Book of Sentences received the largest number of commentaries among all works of Christian literature except for Scripture itself. Now, notable Lombard scholar Philipp W. Rosemann examines ... En savoir plus

    17,50 €

  • The Art of Allusion

    Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476

    par Sonja Drimmer ...
    Collection series Material Texts
    At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the ... En savoir plus

    36,97 €

  • Uncertain Refuge

    Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

    par Elizabeth Allen ...
    Collection series The Middle Ages Series
    To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary was upheld under both canon and common law, and up to five hundred people sought sanctuary every year. What ... En savoir plus

    54,89 €

  • The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

    Collection series The Middle Ages Series
    Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of English writing, in part as a result of the mass underemployment of clerks originally trained for the church but unable to find steady positions in it ... En savoir plus

    81,98 €

  • Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition

    From Chaucer to Spenser

    par R. D. Perry ...
    Collection series The Middle Ages Series
    In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods created a profusion of coterie forms as they sought to navigate their relationships with their contemporaries and ... En savoir plus

    63,95 €

  • Medieval Boundaries

    Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature

    Collection series The Middle Ages Series
    In Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland, the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of ... En savoir plus

    68,38 €

  • Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World

    Modifié par Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Collection series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant ... En savoir plus

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  • The Black Death and its Impact on the Church and Popular Religion

    This book concerns the religious impact of the Black Death. This plague devastated Europe in the fourteenth century. It explores the effect of the Black Death on the Catholic Church and the religious movements that emerged in response to it. The conclusions drawn here are based on the research of both primary and secondary sources. The Church played a significant role during the Middle Ages ... En savoir plus

    2,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • La critique poétique des Arabes jusqu’au Ve siècle de l’Hégire (XIe siècle de J.C.)

    par Amjad Trabulsi ...
    Collection series Études arabes, médiévales et modernes
    Dans les premiers siècles de la littérature arabe, la poésie occupe une place d’honneur. Jusqu’à la fin du IIe siècle de l’Hégire, les Arabes écrivent avant tout une littérature en vers qui présente, en outre, des caractères assez originaux qu’il est souvent impossible d’apprécier dans une traduction. Afin d’expliquer les traditions immuables de la poésie classique arabe et de comprendre les ... En savoir plus

    9,99 €

  • Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England

    Legally Absent, Virtually Present

    par M. Krummel ...
    Collection series The New Middle Ages
    Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England. ... En savoir plus

    46,34 €

  • Astralabe

    The Life and Times of the Son of Heloise and Abelard

    par Brenda M. Cook ...
    Collection series History (R0)
    Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal castration. The couple spent the rest of their lives as monastics, in each other’s orbits if not in shared presence, as they became movers in the glittering monastic world of the early twelfth-century ... En savoir plus

    111,23 €

  • Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature

    par Kisha G. Tracy ...
    Collection series The New Middle Ages
    This book argues that the traditional relationship between the act of confessing and the act of remembering is manifested through the widespread juxtaposition of confession and memory in Middle English literary texts and, furthermore, that this concept permeates other manifestations of memory as written by authors in a variety of genres. This study, through the framework of confession, identifies ... En savoir plus

    50,97 €