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  • Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales

    The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame

    Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts.Part one contextualises Our Lady’s Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

    Volume 3: The American Middle Ages

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

    Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

    Volume 1: The Middle Ages

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

    Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante and Islam

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity

    Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity.

    Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Medieval Craft of Memory

    An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

    Edited by Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Craft of Memory

    An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

    Edited by Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations

    Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture

    by Grzegorz Ziółkowski ...
    Translated by Jan Szelągiewicz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or devoted to individual cases. The core of the publication consists of six case studies of these ultimate ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD