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  • The Arthur of the French

    The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature

    de Glyn S Burgess, Karen Pratt ...
    Series Libro 1 - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis’ "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, 1959) and to provide a volume which will serve the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The principal focus is the production, ... Leer más

    $29.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Transactional Analysis Coaching

    Distinctive Features

    de Karen Pratt ...
    Series series Coaching Distinctive Features
    This important book distils the essence of developmental Transactional Analysis (TA) frameworks that are most useful to bring alive professional coaching competencies. Karen Pratt offers clear outlines of TA frameworks as well as describing how they are applied in coaching, with snippets of coaching conversations as illustrations of the theory in practice.Pratt highlights key TA frameworks in ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Erasing the Illusion: The Pricing Strategy That Destroyed a Retail Giant

    Honesty, Hubris, and the Catastrophic Failure of J.C. Penney's Fair and Square Campaign

    de Karen Pratt ...
    In 2011, J.C. Penney hired Ron Johnson, the visionary behind the Apple Store, to rescue the struggling retail chain. Johnson correctly diagnosed that the store's pricing model was a manipulative lie: prices were artificially inflated just so the store could constantly offer "70% off" sales. His radical solution was total honesty. He eliminated all sales, coupons, and fake markdowns, introducing ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    de R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edición de Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Demonic Possession and Exorcism

    In Early Modern France

    de Sarah Ferber ...
    This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France. Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities of witches, and even in the bodies of pious young women. The rite of exorcism was intended to heal the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

    de Richard W. Kaeuper ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other cheek rather than seek vengeance and who taught that the meek, rather ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • From Scythia to Camelot

    A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail

    de C. Scott Littleton, Linda Malcor ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes 19 maps. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    de Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Arthurian Handbook

    Second Edition

    de Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra N. Mancoff ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the**Holy ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD