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Understanding Classics eBook Series

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  • Martial

    Series series Understanding Classics
    Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died between 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern epigram, Martial was a native of Hispania, who came to Rome in the hope of securing both patronage ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Comedies of William ... Read more

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  • The Book of the Courtier

    Translated by George Bull ...
    In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such ... Read more

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  • A <I>Perceforest</I> Reader

    Selected Episodes from <I>Perceforest</I>: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

    Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material ... Read more

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  • Narrating the Crusades

    Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

    by Lee Manion ...
    Series Book 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying ... Read more

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  • Nobles and Knights of the Middle Ages-Children's Medieval History Books

    In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society. Open this book to read about what they do and why they do such functions. A glimpse into the past would provide you with facts to model the modern way of living. So what are you waiting for? Get a copy and read this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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

    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

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edited by Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Read more

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  • The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ

    by Ross Dealy ...
    Series series Erasmus Studies
    This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Suppliants

    Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation

    Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical ... Read more

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  • A Knight's Career: Training and Duties- Children's Medieval History Books

    History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present. By understanding history, we can better understand where we are now and what is going to happen in the future. Right now, your child might think it’s about dates and names but soon, he/she will find out that it’s actually more than just that. ... Read more

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  • The Emblematics of the Self

    Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance

    The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these ... Read more

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