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  • Turning Away

    The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

    de Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series Thinking Literature
    A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Thinking of the Medieval

    Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages

    Edición de Benjamin A. Saltzman, R. D. Perry ...
    The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals – Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Bonds of Secrecy

    Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

    de Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretationsWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Bonds of Secrecy

    Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

    de Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretationsWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    de Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Libro 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

    Edición de Clare A. Lees ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of English Literature
    Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    de Georg G. Iggers ...
    "No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this." ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of HistoryA broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ... Leer más

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  • Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

    Four Studies

    de A.J. Woodman ...
    This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

    de Emily V. Thornbury ...
    Series Libro 88 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

    Edición de Ian Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD