著者:Paul Merchant
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年07月06日
First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented itself over time. After unpicking the defining aspects of an epic, the book tracks ……続きを見る
著者:Jean Dangler
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年07月07日
Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, a……続きを見る
著者:Patrick McBrine
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年07月07日
Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and sub……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2017年05月15日
Step back in time and learn all about the art and literature of the Middle Ages. You will notice that the dominant art form of an era reflects what life was like back then. You will see familiar str……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2017年03月15日
Technology was very limited during the Middle Ages. Everything had to be done manually and, of course, it wasn’t easy. Hop into a time machine and go back to the times of cobbled steps, peasants, kn……続きを見る
著者:Jason Baxter
出版社: Baker Publishing Group
発売日: 2018年03月20日
Understanding Dante's spiritual masterpiece
Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to ……続きを見る
著者:Susan Nakley
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2017年08月24日
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey ……続きを見る
著者:Marion Dolan
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年08月26日
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries*.* Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem d……続きを見る
Robin Hood' von Anastasius Grün ist ein Buch, das nicht nur Liebhaber von Abenteuergeschichten begeistern wird, sondern auch diejenigen anspricht, die an gesellschaftlichen Themen interessiert sind.……続きを見る
Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water ……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年10月14日
This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demon……続きを見る
著者:Siegfried Wenzel
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2017年10月01日
Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth," from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in ……続きを見る
By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author’s era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for……続きを見る
著者:Warren Ginsberg
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年09月22日
This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques a……続きを見る
著者:Ryan D. Giles
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2012年11月14日
In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names, and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other media, and at the sa……続きを見る
著者:Lynn F. Jacobs
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年09月26日
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth c……続きを見る
著者:Glenn D. Burger
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2017年09月26日
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a……続きを見る
著者:Aaron Hostetter
出版社: Ohio State University Press
発売日: 2017年10月10日
Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance is the first book-length examination of the cultural and theoretical resonances of food and cooking in medieval English literature, offering a n……続きを見る
著者:Allyson Carr
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年10月03日
This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading a……続きを見る
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since……続きを見る
The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the p……続きを見る
著者:Kathryn Hume
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年10月06日
The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpr……続きを見る
著者:Filippo Andrei
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年10月07日
This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Gio……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年10月11日
This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity,……続きを見る
In 'The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations)', readers are immersed in the enchanting world of the celebrated English poet and artist, William Blake. This comprehen……続きを見る
Als Kind dachte Nicola Gardini, seine Mutter spräche perfekt Latein, weil er sie das «Ave Maria» und das «Pater noster» beten hörte. Erst viel später hat sie ihm gebeichtet, dass sie sonst kein Wort……続きを見る
著者:Mary Dockray-Miller
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月13日
This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon i……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月17日
This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of t……続きを見る
著者:Joel T. Rosenthal
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月21日
This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illu……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月29日
This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholar……続きを見る