Medieval Literature – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 4

Timothy Kircher, Leon Battista Alberti,
Theogenius

Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English tran…

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David Colclough
The Oxford Francis Bacon XIX

The first volume in The Oxford Francis Bacon to publish in over a decade, XIX contains New Atlantis: Bacon's highly influential semi-utopian fable of reformed knowledge. David Colclough establishes an aut…

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Carolyn Larrington
The Little Book of Dragons

Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanqu…

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Carolyn Larrington, Carolyne Larrington
The Little Book of Trolls

Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people quit…

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Michael Sherberg
Jacopo Passavanti

Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence presents a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's unfinishedsumma on penitence -- an essential yet often overlooked work of 14th-century religi…

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Harald Voetmann,
Visions and Temptations

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround…

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Al-Sh&,
The Book of Monasteries

"A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic centers of the medieval Middle East, illustrated with a…

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Ármann Jakobsson
Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas

The New Middle Ages

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icelandic sagas but weaving in examples from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and the Pet Shop B…

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Kylie M. Murray
The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe's most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel. Studies abound in Continental and English dream-vision writing:…

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Rachel Scoggins
Trauma and Tears in the Book of Margery Kempe

Employing the use of trauma theory, Rachel Scoggins uncovers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality present within the autobiography of Margery Kempe.Scoggins argues that Kempe's wor…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell
Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

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Gervase Of Melkley,
The Art of Making Verses

The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teache…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Ferdowsi,
Shahnameh

A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi's work protected the Pe…

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Tovi Bibring
Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo

In Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo, Tovi Bibring argues that behind the restless parody and the sour tone of the tale, lies a fierce disc…

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Dante Alighieri
Inferno

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday…

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Petrarch,
Canzoniere

Petrarch's Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. Expressing his unrequited devotion for Laura-with whom the young poet fell in love at firs…

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