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  • Vittorio Emanuele a King in Exile, Part I

    Vittorio Emanuele, #1

    by Alexandra Sterling ...
    Series Book 1 - Vittorio Emanuele
    Preface:In the annals of history, few figures have elicited as much fascination and ardor as Vittorio Emanuele III, the King of Italy whose life and reign were indelibly marked by the tumultuous events of his time. His tale of exile, recounted in this remarkable book, is a captivating journey through the trials and tribulations faced by a monarch forced to navigate the treacherous waters of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vittorio Emanuele a King in Exile, Part II

    Vittorio Emanuele, #2

    by Alexandra Sterling ...
    Series Book 2 - Vittorio Emanuele
    Alexandra Sterling: An Esteemed American Historian and MemoiristAlexandra Sterling, a revered figure in the world of history and memoir writing, is a testament to a life dedicated to scholarship and the art of storytelling. Born in the heartland of America, she embarked on a lifelong journey of knowledge and exploration that would leave an indelible mark on the literary and academic landscape.From ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vittorio Emanuele a King in Exile, Part III

    Vittorio Emanuele, #3

    by Alexandra Sterling ...
    Series Book 3 - Vittorio Emanuele
    Title: "Vittorio Emanuele: A King in Exile" by Alexandra SterlingIn "Vittorio Emanuele: A King in Exile," the captivating historical account written by Alexandra Sterling, we embark on an intimate journey through the life of Vittorio Emanuele, the exiled king. This remarkable third part delves deep into his formative years, tracing his path from childhood to the heart-wrenching circumstances that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Literature on Display

    Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany

    by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand ...
    How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001). Emerging around the turn of the 20th century, the museums explore medieval German literature, cultural memory and local ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance

    by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book explores the metaphor of topography as a mechanism for the inscription of gender roles in Arthurian romance. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

    by Elliott Schreiber ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Medieval German Literature

    A Companion

    by Marion Gibbs, Sidney M. Johnson ...
    Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Novel Translations

    The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

    by Bethany Wiggin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

    Edited by Lesley Sharpe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

    by Joy Wiltenburg ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD