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  • Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

    Edited by Susan Irvine, Winfried Rudolf ...
    Series series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
    Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin writings, including hagiography, heroic poetry, riddles, legal documents, philosophical prose and ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

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  • The Children of Odin - The Book of Northern Myths

    by Padraic Colum ...
    Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked free. This collection of Norse sagas retold by author Padraic Colum gives us a sense of that ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iliad And Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to the poet Homer and are the earliest surviving works of Western literature. Composed sometime around the eighth century BC, the ancient Greek poems has since been translated into many languages and serves as an important source of information on ancient Greek culture and mythology.In the Iliad it is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • U and I

    A True Story

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the New Medievalism

    Edited by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, Jeanette Patterson ...
    Twenty years after Stephen Nichols transformed the study of medieval literature, leaders in the field pay tribute to his work and expand on it.In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination

    by Ebrahim Moosa ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain

    by Ryan Prendergast ...
    Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Author Ryan Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Crown ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

    Becoming the Chosen People

    by Professor Samantha Zacher ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples

    by Matteo Soranzo ...
    Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples approaches poems as acts of cultural identity and investigates how a group of authors used poetry to develop a poetic style, while also displaying their position toward the culture of others. Starting from an analysis of Giovanni Pontano’s Parthenopeus and De amore coniugali, followed by a discussion of Jacopo Sannazaro’s Arcadia, Matteo Soranzo links the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Arthurian Drama: An Anthology

    Edited by Alan Lupack ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

    by Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic and geographic factors that cause their growth and decline. Noteworthy too is Botero’s strikingly ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD