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  • The illusion of the Burgundian state
    Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin / Christopher Fletcher
    This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state. ...
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    43,76 €

  • Sound of Writing
    Christopher Cannon
    An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using ...
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    70,70 €

  • Edgar Allan Poe Poems Collection
    Edgar Allan Poe
    A COLLECTION OF POE’S 50 REMARKABLE POEMSPoems included in this collection:The RavenAnnabel LeeAloneThe BellsEulalie-A SongSonnet-SilenceTo One in ParadiseLenoreDreamsTo HelenThe Haunted PalaceA Dream Within a DreamThe City in the SeaTo F--The SleeperUlalumeRomanceSonnet-To ScienceEldoradoTo M--The Conqueror WormSonnet-To ZanteTo M. L. S.--To the River --A DreamAl AaraafTo F--S...
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    13,03 €

  • Dantologies
    William Franke
    The comparison of current theoretical approaches to Dante, particularly those mobilizing the resources of theology, serves to adumbrate and illustrate, by application to Dante studies as a specific field of scholarship, the author’s own philosophy of culture and the humanities ...
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    267,85 €

  • Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy
    Andrea Celli
    In recent decades the concept of Mediterranean has been cited with increasing frequency in relation to the study of medieval literatures. And yet, in what sense would Dante’s Comedy be ’Mediterranean’? Is it because of its Greek-Arabic and Islamic sources? Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy analyzes the ideological function of references to the sea in the study of the Comedy un...
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    136,28 €

  • Marian maternity in late-medieval England
    Mary Beth Long
    Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one. ...
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    159,64 €

  • A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy
    Raffaele De Benedictis
    Semiotics and multimodality combined together create new forms of signification in the Divine Comedy. It contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism, Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education. ...
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    267,98 €

  • Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World
    This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; m...
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    193,70 €

  • Dante’s Blood
    Anne C. Leone
    Dante’s works contain too much and too little blood. On the one hand, one might wonder why there is any blood in the Comedy; why are the souls - which lack flesh and blood - bleeding at all? On the other hand, we must ask: in a Christian poem that claims to be salvific, why are references to the Eucharist, and to the Passion either implicit, understated or parodic? Investigatin...
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    139,03 €

  • Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel
    Lorenzo Mainini
    This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. It explores some structural and formal paths of the ’novelistic machine’, through three exemplary cases. ...
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    88,72 €

  • Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature
    Doriane Zerka
    A porous boundary zone between Europe and Africa, a space at once liminal and peripheral, both a gateway and a border defined through cultural and religious alterity - medieval Iberia challenges post-medieval notions of East, West, nationhood and Europe. Examining the ideological implications of real and fictional travels to the Peninsula in German-language texts ranging from t...
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    139,22 €

  • The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance
    James Calum O’Neill
    It critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him ...
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    267,83 €

  • Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era
    Courtney J. P. Friesen
    This volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. It is suitable for those working on ancient Christianity and Judaism, and ancient drama and literature. ...
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    241,32 €

  • Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
    Rosanne P. Gasse
    Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, livin...
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    48,14 €

  • Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
    Rosanne P. Gasse
    Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, livin...
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    156,96 €

  • Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria
    A.H. Sayce
    The beginning of Tiglath-Pileser’s I reign, laid heavy involvement in military campaigns, as suggested from translated texts from the Middle Assyrian period. The texts were believed to be 'justification of war.' Although little literary text is available from the time of Tiglath-Pieser I, there is evidence to show that the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I inspired the act of recordin...
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    4,86 €

  • Idylls Of The King
    Lord Tennyson Alfred
    The cycle of narrative poems known as 'Idylls of the King' was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of the most renowned writers of the Victorian period. The collection depicts the ascent and fall of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in a retelling of the Arthurian tales. The Victorian beliefs and concerns are reflected in Tennyson’s interpretation of the Arthuria...
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    17,39 €

  • The Last Stroke A Detective Story
    Lynch Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Lynch has authored a gripping book titled 'The Last Stroke: A Detective Story'. The mystery murder at the core of the tale shocks the sleepy, unassuming neighborhood. Everyone is on edge when a well-known person is the victim of a terrible murder, which starts a sequence of events. Here comes the seasoned investigator, whose quick brain and intuition play a crucial ...
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    13,71 €

  • Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism
    Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism is a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in literature, social and cultural history, and gender roles in the Middle Ages. The volume also seeks to correct or offer new insights into historical beer production. By drawing on the expertise of scholars of history, archaeology, Old and...
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    194,76 €

  • English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700
    Alexandra Verini
    English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents...
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    103,43 €

  • Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis
    Joel Fredell
    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for 'late stage' revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach...
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    147,05 €

  • Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis
    Joel Fredell
    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for 'late stage' revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach...
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    47,82 €

  • Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition
    Robert J. Rabel
    This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of 20th century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in American history. ...
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    73,57 €

  • Hellenic Common
    Philip Zapkin
    Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan cultural commonwealth. ...
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    70,87 €

  • Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
    Albrecht Classen
    Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail as an epistemological vehicle for the protagonists proves to be critical in reaching a deep understanding of medieval values and ideals. ...
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    72,86 €

  • Pornographic Sensibilities
    Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields-Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered and sexualized bodies in medieval and early modern textual production. ...
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    73,09 €

  • Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia
    Catalin Taranu
    In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics. ...
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    73,23 €

  • Polyphony and the Modern
    Jonathan Fruoco
    Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. ...
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    73,14 €

  • Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders
    William H. Norman
    This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, through descriptions of diet, material culture, style of warfare, and character, and compares the portrayal with classical and contemporary European ideas. ...
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    73,46 €

  • Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature
    Veronica Menaldi
    This book explores various representations and productions of love magic in medieval and early modern Iberian fictions. The use of magic serves as a metaphor for issues of control and exchange of knowledge among the various religious identities of the Peninsula throughout the centuries. ...
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    73,63 €


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