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  • Revival: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (1928)

    Translated by Edward Storer ...
    by Poggio Bracciolini ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct line through Latin literature, to the Greek apopthegm. Facetiae, in the literary sense, are also to be found in Oriental literature, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    by Jesse Byock, Snorri Sturluson ...
    Translated by Jesse Byock ...
    The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda shows the gods' ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Closed the Asylums

    Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care

    by John Foot ...
    When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatryIn 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    by Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The World of Dante

    Six Studies in Language and Thought

    Edited by S. Bernard Chandler, Julius Molinaro ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Translated by Richard Lansing ...
    by Andrew Frisardi ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Women's Rights in Medieval History- Children's Medieval History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men? If you would review your history books, you will notice the great difference in status, rank and role in society. In this book, let's take a look at the women's rights during the medieval times. Do you think women were treated fairly then? Why or why not? ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Chaucer and the Jews

    Edited by Sheila Delany ...
    This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Amanda Hopkins, Margaret Robson, Michael Cichon, Robert Rouse, Simon Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Thomas Howard Crofts, Tony Grand, Cory Rushton0, Alexander Davis1, Anthony Bale2, Corinne Saunders3, Jane Bliss4, Kristina Hildebrand5 ...
    This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body

    by Sarah Alison Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages—the female body—exists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it resists the customary marginalization that defined most other monstrous groups in the Middle Ages. Though ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

    Edited by David J. Cast ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, ... Read more

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  • Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange

    Authorship, Manuscript Culture, and the Making of the 'Vita Nova'

    by Jelena Todorović ...
    Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between different cultures in Italy in the thirteenth century, this study illuminates the multicultural and plurilinguistic society transitioning from the feudal court to ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD