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  • The Sonorous World Of Dante's Commedia

    This work investigates exhaustively the musical references in Dante's Commedia. It is a critical survey of their literal and symbolical significance within Dante's narrative. Although Inferno, realm of Anti-Music, apparently only contains noises, there are several parodic referrals to music. Purgatory, where music is a means for purgation, is the canticle which is most specific in its description ... Read more

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  • Poets, Patrons, and Printers

    Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

    Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship.Examining such paratextual elements of manuscripts as title pages, colophons, and illustrations as well as such literary strategies as experimentation with narrative voice, Brown traces authors' attempts ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Saga

    Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

    Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

    This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts. ... Read more

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  • Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

    Series series The New Middle Ages
    This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license.This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict ... Read more

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  • Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance

    Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire

    Series Book 25 - Studies in Medieval Romance
    This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of resistance within it offer a point of tension, where normative scripts and expectations are exposed and opened up to challenge. This book explores ... Read more

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  • Not of Woman Born

    Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    "Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in ... Read more

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  • Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth

    by Ann W. Astell ...
    Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s *Consolation of Philosophy—*texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers—and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for ... Read more

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  • Chaucer and the Poets

    An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde

    In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages

    Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant ... Read more

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  • Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages

    This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many ... Read more

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  • Medievalism: a Critical History

    The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? ... Read more

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  • Il poema di Giovanna d'Arco

    traduzione e commento dell’ultima opera di Christine de Pizan

    Traduzione e commento dell’opera conosciuta come Le Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc scritta da Christine de Pizan nel luglio 1429; poema che esalta la figura di Giovanna d’Arco all’indomani della vittoria di Orléans e della consacrazione di re Carlo VII a Reims. Il testo rappresenta la prima opera riguardante la Pulzella, nonché l’unica pubblicata mentre l’eroina era ancora in vita.Paolo Spaggiari, nato a ... Read more

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  • The Dark Ages Collection

    The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's "darkness" (lack of records) with earlier and later periods of "light" (abundance of records ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Dark Ages

    The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's "darkness" (lack of records) with earlier and later periods of "light" (abundance of ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of the Kings of England (Annotated)

    Chronicle of the Kings of England comprehensively details the history of the English people from their earliest days to the middle of the 12th century. Borrowing largely from Bede, William details England's earlier kings, spending the last three books on William the Conqueror and the kings after him. ... Read more

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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestridesDating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed by time: the classic ... Read more

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  • The Histories of Herodotus: The Unabridged and Complete Edition (Herodotus Classics)

    by Herodotus ...
    The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written around 430 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Greece, Western Asia, and Northern Africa at that time.[citation needed] Although not a fully impartial record, ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read

    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!NovelsAlcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: ... Read more

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  • The Jessamy Bride

    "The Jessamy Bride" is a novel by Frank Frankfort Moore. The story is set in the late 18th century and follows the life of a young woman named Jessamy Bride. Jessamy is the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat and is engaged to marry a man named Charles, whom she has never met. However, she falls in love with a young man named David, who is a painter and a member of a lower social class. As Jessamy ... Read more

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  • Medieval People By Eileen Power

    by Power Eileen ...
    Medieval People By Eileen PowerLanguage English ... Read more

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  • Forty Years Among The Indians A True Yet Thrilling Narrative Of The Author’s Experiences Among The Natives

    "Forty Years Among the Indians" is a memoir by Daniel W. Jones, a Baptist missionary who spent four decades living among various Native American tribes in the western United States during the mid-1800s. The book is a detailed account of Jones' experiences and observations of the different cultures, traditions, and daily life of the indigenous peoples he encountered. Jones describes his early years ... Read more

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  • 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

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