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Toronto Iberic eBook Series

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  • The Mystical Science of the Soul

    Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method

    by Jessica A. Boon ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

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  • The Tale of Genji

    by Murasaki Shikibu ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    The acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature, Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court.At the core of this epic is Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whose passionate character, love affairs and shifting political fortunes, offer an exquisite glimpse of the golden age of Japan. Royal Tyler's superb new translation ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • In a Dark Wood

    What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love

    by Joseph Luzzi ...
    When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn?On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself racing to the hospital—his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father.In the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Birth of Theory

    by Andrew Cole ...
    Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Chaucer and the Jews

    Edited by Sheila Delany ...
    This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IX

    Edited by Michael D.C. Drout, Douglas A Anderson, Verlyn Flieger ...
    Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • James I of Scotland: The Kingis Quair: A Modern English prose translation

    by Jenni Nuttall ...
    James I's The Kingis Quair is a hidden gem of medieval poetry, written in 1424 by a Scottish king held prisoner in England from the age of eleven until almost thirty years old. The poem narrates his capture and imprisonment, and how he fell in love one beautiful spring morning with an English noblewoman, Joan Beaufort. In a dream vision, we find out what King James learned about good and bad ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    by E. R. Truitt ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Women's Networks in Medieval France

    Gender and Community in Montpellier, 1300-1350

    by Kathryn L. Reyerson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book illuminates the connections and interaction among women and between women and men during the medieval period. To do this, Kathryn L. Reyerson focuses specifically on the experiences of Agnes de Bossones, widow of a changer of the mercantile elite of Montpellier. Agnes was a real estate mogul and a patron of philanthropic institutions that permitted lower strata women to survive and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative

    by Phyllis Gaffney ...
    What do we know of medieval childhood? Were boundaries always clear between childhood and young adulthood? Was medieval childhood gendered? Scholars have been debating such questions over half a century. Can evidence from imaginative literature test the conclusions of historians? Phyllis Gaffney's innovative book reveals contrast and change in the portrayal of childhood and youth by looking at ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period including Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer. The coherence and beauty of these notions make heaven one of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Debating the Roman de la Rose

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by Christine McWebb ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Texts
    Around the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary "truth" and merit of the Roman of the Rose, perhaps the most renowned work of the French Middle Ages. She argued against what she considered to be misrepresentations of female virtue and vice in the Rose. Her bold objections aroused the support and opposition of some of the period’s most famous ... Read more

    $70.99 USD