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  • Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies

    de Christine Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Traducido por Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    de Penguin Books Ltd ...
    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Leer más

    $12.59 USD

  • U and I

    A True Story

    de Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edición de Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • Medieval German Literature

    A Companion

    de Marion Gibbs, Sidney M. Johnson ...
    Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

    de Peggy Knapp ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VII

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse

    Edición de Alan T. Gaylord ...
    Series series Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time
    These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Land and Book

    Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England

    de Scott Thompson Smith ...
    In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical – such ... Leer más

    $61.19 USD

  • Sea of Silk

    A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature

    de E. Jane Burns ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic histories that chart the exchange of silk along Asian and Mediterranean trade routes to ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD