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  • The Discarded Image

    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    de C. S. Lewis ...
    In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe. ... Leer más

    $208 MXN

  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Leer más

    $154 MXN

  • The Tain

    The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cualige. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single ... Leer más

    $183 MXN

  • The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations)

    Enriched edition. Including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and Experience & more

    de William Blake, Todd Ramsey ...
    In 'The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations)', readers are immersed in the enchanting world of the celebrated English poet and artist, William Blake. This comprehensive collection features a selection of Blake's most renowned poems, including 'The Tyger' and 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience', complemented by his intricate original illustrations. Blake's ... Leer más

    Antes $39 MXN Ahora $19 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Classics Book

    de Henry Eliot ...
    ****Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.**Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to ... Leer más

    $569 MXN

  • The Poetic Edda

    A Dual-Language Edition

    de Edward Pettit ...
    This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius ... Leer más

    $129 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Leer más

    $171 MXN

  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    de Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Leer más

    $395 MXN

  • Eyrbyggja Saga

    de Hermann Palsson ...
    Traducido por Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards ...
    An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ... Leer más

    $247 MXN

  • James I of Scotland: The Kingis Quair

    A Modern English prose translation

    de Jenni Nuttall ...
    James I’s The Kingis Quair is a hidden gem of medieval poetry, written in 1424 by a Scottish king held prisoner in England from the age of eleven until almost thirty years old.  The poem narrates his capture and imprisonment, and how he fell in love one beautiful spring morning with an English noblewoman, Joan Beaufort.  In a dream vision, we find out what King James learned about good and bad ... Leer más

    $111 MXN

  • The Essays of Montaigne, Complete (Annotated)

    de Michel de Montaigne ...
    The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three novels and a hundred and seven chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record for the 'private benefit of friends and kinsmen ... some traits of my character and of my humours.' The Essays were first published in 1580 and ... Leer más

    $40 MXN

  • Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

    de Margaret Clunies Ross ...
    Series series Studies in Old Norse Literature
    Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's ... Leer más

    $473 MXN

  • Dante in Deutschland

    An Itinerary of Romantic Myth

    de Daniel DiMassa ...
    Series series New Studies in the Age of Goethe
    Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite modern poets and grant them common ground, and bring philosophers and the Volk closer together. But what would a new mythology look like? Only one model sufficed, according to Friedrich Schlegel: Dante’s Divine Comedy. Through reading and juxtaposing ... Leer más

    $473 MXN

  • Beowulf

    de Jodi-Anne George ...
    Series series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
    This essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism takes a chronological approach, moving from eighteenth-century reactions to twenty-first-century responses. Jodi-Anne George charts the changes in critical trends and also discusses popular culture's continuing fascination with the Old English poem. ... Leer más

    $522 MXN

  • Egil, the Viking Poet

    New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'

    Edición de Laurence de Looze, Jon Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, Torfi H. Tulinius ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend.The contributors to this collection of essays ... Leer más

    $1,002 MXN

  • England in Europe

    English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000–c.1150

    de Elizabeth Muir Tyler ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens actively engaged in the patronage of history-writing and poetry to exercise ... Leer más

    $1,621 MXN

  • The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective

    Edición de William Robins ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and ... Leer más

    $1,190 MXN

  • Cultures of the Fragment

    Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

    de Heather Bamford ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The majority of medieval and sixteenth-century Iberian manuscripts, whether in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, or Aljamiado (Spanish written in Arabic script), contain fragments or are fragments. The term fragment is used to describe not only isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, but also any piece of a larger text that was intended to be a fragment. Investigating the ... Leer más

    $1,248 MXN

  • Portraying Authorship

    Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority

    de Anita Savo ...
    Series Libro 88 - Toronto Iberic
    Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation and synthesis of medieval authorial roles.In the manuscript culture of medieval Castile and across Latin Europe, writers typically referred to their work in ways that corresponded to their role in the bookmaking process: scribes took credit for preserving ... Leer más

    $1,291 MXN

  • Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature

    de Albrecht Classen ...
    The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutchliteratures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, ... Leer más

    $358 MXN

  • Epistolary Acts

    Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media

    de Jordan Zweck ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves.In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in ... Leer más

    $1,248 MXN

  • Humour in Old English Literature

    Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England

    de Jonathan Wilcox ...
    Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom literature, runic writing, the deployment of rhymes, and humour in heroic poetry, hagiography, and romance.Drawing on a fine-tuned understanding of literary technique, the book presents a revisionist view ... Leer más

    $1,291 MXN

  • Liber Uricrisiarum

    A Reading Edition

    de Henry Daniel ...
    Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete edition. Working in the late 1370s, Daniel combined authoritative medicine from written sources with his own personal experience, creating a text that stands out for its linguistic originality, intellectual scope, and wide circulation. Extant ... Leer más

    $1,578 MXN

  • Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

    de William D. Paden ...
    Series Libro 115 - Medieval Academy Books
    Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône ... Leer más

    $1,477 MXN