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“daniel thiery”

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  • 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?

    Interpreting Medieval Violence

    Edited by Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, Oren Falk ...
    'A great effusion of blood' was a phrase used frequently throughout medieval Europe as shorthand to describe the effects of immoderate interpersonal violence. Yet the ambiguity of this phrase poses numerous problems for modern readers and scholars in interpreting violence in medieval society and culture and its effect on medieval people. Understanding medieval violence is made even more complex by ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    by Anon E. Mouse, Translated by Padraig Colum ...
    Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore and was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. In his retelling of these Norse myths and legends he speaks directly to children. So good and colourful was his retelling of these Norse Myths and Legends, that the storytellers at Marvel were quick to realise their value and create a ... Read more

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  • Vita Nuova

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Barbara Reynolds ...
    A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to ... Read more

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  • Night & Horses & The Desert

    An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature

    Edited by Robert Irwin ...
    This collection of Arabic literature is "a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page" ( Financial Times).Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic ... Read more

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  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Read more

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  • Chaucer on Screen

    Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales

    by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    Unlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and other great authors who have enjoyed continued success in Hollywood, Geoffrey Chaucer has largely been shunted to the margins of the cinematic world. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales, edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, investigates the various translations of Chaucer and the Canterbury ... Read more

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  • Erasmus and Voltaire

    Why They Still Matter

    by Ricardo J. Quinones ...
    Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for change in his time and thus ranks among the masters of modern liberalism. Beginning with the continuities between the Renaissance and the ... Read more

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  • The Unfolding of Words

    Commentary in the Age of Erasmus

    by Judith Rice Henderson ...
    Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialogue and debate with authoritative contemporary texts. By what Juan Luis Vives termed 'the unfolding of words,' these humanists gave old works new meanings in brief notes and extensive commentaries, full paraphrases, or translations. This critique challenged the Middle Ages' ... Read more

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  • Nidrstigningar Saga

    Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”

    by Dario Bullitta ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

    Edited by J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing. ... Read more

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  • Boccaccio the Philosopher

    An Epistemology of the Decameron

    by Filippo Andrei ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach ... Read more

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  • The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton

    by J. Christopher Warner ...
    The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian tradition" of epic poetry. Beginning with Petrarch's Africa, Warner offers major new interpretations of ... Read more

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