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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “elizabeth howes”
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  • The Modern Salad

    Innovative New American and International Recipes Inspired by Burma's Iconic Tea Leaf Salad

    by Elizabeth Howes ...
    "Every so often a cookbook comes along and takes you by surprise . . . Recipes are so innovative, refreshing and just layered with appealing textures." — LocalFoodEater.comBursting with bold flavors, hearty ingredients, crunchy textures and brilliant colors—the salads in this book are a feast for your senses. The Modern Salad serves up protein- and superfood-rich recipes that are artfully ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940: Volume 4

    Edited by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes ...
    Series series Irish Literature in Transition
    The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized ... Read more

    $143.19 CAD

  • Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature

    From Aelred of Rievaulx to <I>The Book of Margery Kempe</I>

    by Hetta Elizabeth Howes ...
    Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphorical meaning.This book considers a large span of watery images in a small cluster of late-medieval devotional writings by and for women, in order to ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Hildegard of Bingen

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-written specifically for this volume-approach Hildegard from a variety of perspectives including gender theory, musicology, art history, the history of science, and comparative studies. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Medieval Texts in Context

    Edited by Graham D. Caie, Denis Renevey ...
    This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • A Companion to Julian of Norwich

    by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Ena Jenkins, John Sexton, Book Reviews Editor, Kim M Phillips, Laura Saetveit Miles, Marleen Cre, Sarah Salih, Vincent Gillespie, Annie Sutherland, Barry A Windeatt0, Cate Gunn1, Denise N Baker2, Diane Watt3, E A Jones4, Elisabeth Dutton5, Elizabeth Robertson6 ...
    Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Reading Piers Plowman

    by Emily Steiner ...
    Series series Reading Writers and their Work
    Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Middle English Literature

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman

    Edited by Andrew Cole, Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval England. Current scholarship on this alliterative masterpiece looks very different from that available even a decade ago. New information about the manuscripts of the poem, new historical discoveries, and new investigations of its literary, cultural and theoretical scope have fundamentally altered the very meaning of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Looking Inward

    Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England

    by Jennifer Bryan ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    "You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD