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King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This st……続きを見る

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, scul……続きを見る

Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the es……続きを見る

This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland……続きを見る

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon……続きを見る

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a ……続きを見る

The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth cent……続きを見る

The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extens……続きを見る

As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why……続きを見る

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors ……続きを見る

While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer "communion" that is non-petitionary and wordless. This preference has unduly influenced modern schola……続きを見る

The scribes of early medieval England wrote out their vernacular poems using a format that looks primitive to our eyes because it lacks the familiar visual cues of verse lineation, marks of punctuat……続きを見る

The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for bo……続きを見る

When political theorists teach the history of political philosophy, they typically skip from the ancient Greeks and Cicero to Augustine in the fifth century and Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth, and……続きを見る

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes t……続きを見る

This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. Supernatural marvels represe……続きを見る

This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has emphasized the period as one of change and development through reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The Medi……続きを見る

The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” ……続きを見る

تعود أهمية كتاب الذخيرة في محاسن أهل الجزيرة لابن بسام الشنتريني إلى ثلاثة أمور، فهو كتاب يؤرخ فيه لأدباء الأندلس وشعرائها، ثم إنه كتاب من كتب المختارات التي تكشف عن ذائقة مؤلفه، وهو كتاب يجتمع فيه ……続きを見る

Nel 1070, Alderisio – abate del monastero di San Valentino di Abriola – scrive il racconto degli avvenimenti vissuti dal normanno Sarlo e degli eventi di cui egli stesso è stato partecipe tra la Luc……続きを見る

Una prestigiosa e appassionata lettura della «Divina Commedia» che riscopre la ricchezza intellettuale e umana di Dante e il suo lascito d’esperienza. Con questo obiettivo il Centro Culturale di Mil……続きを見る

L’opera propone la traduzione italiana del «Liber Lelle» di Angela da Foligno di Monsignor Fortunato Frezza, insigne biblista che ha curato anche, nella versione cartacea del volume, la revisione de……続きを見る

The title of Epic, or of "heroic poem," is claimed by historians for a number of works belonging to the earlier Middle Ages, and to the medieval origins of modern literature. "Epic" is a term freely……続きを見る

Premessa di I. Pagani e F. Santi. Abbreviazioni. L'IMMAGINE DEL FONDATORE. A. Paravicini Bagliani, Carlo Magno e il concetto d'Europa - F. Stella, Carlo e la sua ombra nelle testimonianze poetiche. ……続きを見る

Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materia……続きを見る

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles:……続きを見る

In questa raccolta di brevi letture Claudio Leonardi, insigne medievista, pone il Medioevo al centro di una profonda riflessione in rapporto con l’attualità. A tratti in maniera provocatoria, ma sem……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Da quasi sette secoli la Commedia dantesca suscita ininterrottamente l’attenzione dei lettori di tutto il mondo. Ma dove si origina questo interesse? Nel suo poema Dante affronta il problema che si ……続きを見る

La «Vita di Carlo Magno» di Eginardo (770 ca.- 840),una delle opere più famose della letteratura latina del Medioevo, è ora disponibile nella nuova traduzione di Paolo Chiesa, professore all’Univers……続きを見る