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Understanding Classics Serie de eBooks

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  • Martial

    de Prof Lindsay C. Watson, Patricia Watson ...
    Series series Understanding Classics
    Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died between 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern epigram, Martial was a native of Hispania, who came to Rome in the hope of securing both patronage ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Illustrated)

    de William Shakespeare ...
    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Book of the Courtier

    de Baldesar Castiglione ...
    Traducido por George Bull ...
    In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A <I>Perceforest</I> Reader

    Selected Episodes from <I>Perceforest</I>: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

    Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Narrating the Crusades

    Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

    de Lee Manion ...
    Series Libro 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Nobles and Knights of the Middle Ages-Children's Medieval History Books

    de Baby Professor ...
    In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society. Open this book to read about what they do and why they do such functions. A glimpse into the past would provide you with facts to model the modern way of living. So what are you waiting for? Get a copy and read this book today! ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Women's Rights in Medieval History- Children's Medieval History Books

    de Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men? If you would review your history books, you will notice the great difference in status, rank and role in society. In this book, let's take a look at the women's rights during the medieval times. Do you think women were treated fairly then? Why or why not? ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edición de Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ

    de Ross Dealy ...
    Series series Erasmus Studies
    This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Renaissance Suppliants

    Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation

    de Leah Whittington ...
    Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • A Knight's Career: Training and Duties- Children's Medieval History Books

    de Baby Professor ...
    History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present. By understanding history, we can better understand where we are now and what is going to happen in the future. Right now, your child might think it’s about dates and names but soon, he/she will find out that it’s actually more than just that. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Emblematics of the Self

    Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance

    de Elizabeth B. Bearden ...
    The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD