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  • Piers Plowman

    The A Version

    Edited by Míċeál F. Vaughan ...
    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míceál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Montaigne: Complete Essays

    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience.He discusses ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les Illusions perdues

    Tome premier, Les Deux Poètes

    Series series Textes littéraires français
    Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, en 1945, Eugénie Droz fondait les Textes Littéraires Français, une collection dévolue à l’édition critique des textes significatifs du patrimoine littéraire de langue française du moyen âge au XXe siècle. Accessibles, dans un petit format maniable, chaque édition est accompagnée d’une introduction, de notes, d’un glossaire, si nécessaire, et d’index. Cet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Marie. Le culte de la Vierge dans la société médiévale (ouvr. collectif)

    Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisQuelle situation la société fit-elle aux femmes aux XIe et XIIe siècles ? Georges Duby s'interrogea sur ce sujet dans son séminaire du Collège de France à Paris durant de longues années. Parmi les diverses approches du problème, fut abordée, durant les années 1990-1992, la question de la vénération de la Vierge.Une fiche de lecture ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • The Purgatorio

    Translated by John Ciardi ...
    In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of the aspiring soul. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Gilded Page

    The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

    A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII“A delight—immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description.” –Helen Castor, author of She-WolvesMedieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Storia della letteratura italiana

    La "Storia della letteratura italiana" di Francesco De Sanctis è la prima grande sintesi organica di tutta la letteratura italiana, dagli inizi, le prime opere in volgare di Ciullo d'Alcamo e Folcacchiero da Siena, all'Ottocento di Prati, Leopardi e Giusti.Francesco De Sanctis fu il più grande critico letterario e saggista italiano dell'Ottocento e la sua "Storia della letteratura italiana" ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches

    Edited by J. Shaw, P. Kelly, L. Semler ...
    This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • La belle dame sans mercy et les Poésies lyriques

    Series series Textes littéraires français
    Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, en 1945, Eugénie Droz fondait les Textes Littéraires Français, une collection dévolue à l’édition critique des textes significatifs du patrimoine littéraire de langue française du moyen âge au XXe siècle. Accessibles, dans un petit format maniable, chaque édition est accompagnée d’une introduction, de notes, d’un glossaire, si nécessaire, et d’index. Cet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Federico II: la condanna della memoria

    Metamorfosi di un mito

    Federico II di Svevia (1194-1250) è un personaggio dotato di un fascino imperituro, che lo ha portato a godere di una doppia vita: una nel mondo, contingente, l’altra nel mito, immortale. Essere ricordati è il desiderio di tutti i grandi, ma per Federico II – l’eccelso imperatore, l’unico degno di quel nome vissuto nel XIII secolo – è quasi una damnatio, una condanna, ancora maggiore dell’oblio, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chaucer

    A European Life

    by Marion Turner ...
    A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poetsMore than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Say What I Am Called

    The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition

    Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc

    En este libro Mario Vargas Llosa nos descubre el poder de la palabra, la pasión sutil y abstracta de Tirant lo Blanc , considerada por él como una de las novelas más ambiciosas y modernas de entre las clásicas.«Entre los muchos atributos del Tirant lo Blanc el que más admiro es su ambición. Esa voluntad deicida de recrearlo todo, de contarlo todo, desde lo más infinitamente pequeño hasta lo más ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Decameron

    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Prose Edda

    by Jesse Byock ...
    The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Los cátaros

    La herejía perfecta

    El periodista Stephen O'shea nos presenta un ilustrador cuadro de la Francia medieval, así como una evocación de otra época que lleva a pensar que la intolerancia religiosa es intemporal.Radicales en sus ideas y dotados de una profunda espiritualidad, los cátaros rechazaban el materialismo, trataban como iguales a las mujeres, aceptaban la diferencia de credo, defendían el amor libre y afirmaban ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • I Tre Moschettieri

    In Francia, nel 1625: un giovane guascone, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, va a Parigi per entrare nelle guardie di re Luigi XIII. Porta con sé una lettera di presentazione indirizzata al signore di Tréville, capo dei moschettieri, ma questa lettera gli viene rubata dal cavaliere di Rochefort. Dopo l’udienza con Tréville, incontra casualmente, uno dopo l'altro, Athos, Porthos e Aramis, i ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape

    How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Canterbury Tales

    At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

    by Peter Abelard ...
    Translated by Betty Radice ...
    The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their eventual separation. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The children of odin (Illustrated)

    Series series Bluehen

    $2.99 USD

  • Analyse de «Erec et Enide»

    Analyse du roman de Chrétien de Troyes pour le collège

    Analyse du roman de Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide pour le collège. ... Read more

    $4.44 USD