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  • Textual Situations

    Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers

    door Andrew Taylor ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other ... Meer lezen

    62,64 €

  • Textual Situations

    Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers

    door Andrew Taylor ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland. But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus.Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other ... Meer lezen

    85,99 €

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    door Nicholas Cronk ...
    Serie 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, ... Meer lezen

    7,27 €

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Bewerkt door Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Serie series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Meer lezen

    65,94 €

  • The Birth of Territory

    door Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Meer lezen

    21,61 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    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 ... Meer lezen

    32,16 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Bewerkt door Andrew Galloway ...
    Serie series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... Meer lezen

    30,93 €

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    Patron and Politician

    Serie Boek 3 - Symposia in the Arts and the Humanities
    Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II Plantagenet of England, and the mother of two others, Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland. In her eventful, often stormy life, she not only influenced the course of events in the twelfth century but also encouraged remarkable advances in the literary and fine arts. In this book, experts in five disciplines ... Meer lezen

    Was 12,29 € Nu 10,80 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

    Serie 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 ... Meer lezen

    35,99 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Bewerkt door Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Serie 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 ... Meer lezen

    41,84 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

    Bewerkt door Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...
    Serie series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Meer lezen

    34,64 €

  • Erasmus and Voltaire

    Why They Still Matter

    Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for change in his time and thus ranks among the masters of modern liberalism. Beginning with the continuities between the Renaissance and the ... Meer lezen

    28,19 €