Medieval 40

Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, ‘The Prose Edda’ is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier Skaldic and Ed……続きを見る

L’approdo all’ultima luce è l’elevazione che Dante ci propone, dopo sette secoli, nel tentativo di una “salvazione del mondo”. La poesia filosofica dantesca, suggestionata dall’Uno di Plotino, si co……続きを見る

The Poetry of the Medieval Troubadour, William IX of Aquitaine: The Songs that Built Europe offers a new edition, translation, and critical discussion of the songs of the first European troubadour, ……続きを見る

This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources. Th……続きを見る

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already ……続きを見る

Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence’s free……続きを見る

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts au……続きを見る

Emerging from a richly diverse oral narrative tradition, the heroic tale of the young Cid appears in multiple textual manifestations. From its first appearance circa 1300, the dynamic narrative of t……続きを見る

A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated ……続きを見る

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century, which has been almos……続きを見る

The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors ……続きを見る

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages–the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise–became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard’s infamous, brutal cas……続きを見る

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the……続きを見る

Marian maternity in late-medieval England takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructi……続きを見る

Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom li……続きを見る

Les Aventures du Chevalier Don Quichotte seraient-elles le prétexte pour Miguel de Cervantes de donner à voir le chemin à suivre de tout chevalier chrétien hors temps ? Don Quichotte le Chevalier à ……続きを見る

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do……続きを見る

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory representations of Muslims in order to adv……続きを見る

Dans "The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate", Charles Frederick Ward s'engage dans une analyse profonde des débats littéraires entourant le célèbre poème médiéva……続きを見る

Die Anthologie **Die größten Klassiker der deutschen Literatur: Mittelalter** bietet ein faszinierendes Panoptikum der mittelalterlichen Dichtkunst. Mit einer Vielfalt an literarischen Stilen, die v……続きを見る

In "Die Canterbury-Erzählungen" schafft Geoffrey Chaucer ein kaleidoskopisches Bild des mittelalterlichen Englands, indem er die Geschichten einer bunten Gruppe von Pilgern, die nach Canterbury reis……続きを見る

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures. In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to r……続きを見る

While Jane Austen is often regarded as an author who embodies Georgian refinement and restraint, this book argues that her work was deeply engaged with the medieval tradition of courtly love and its……続きを見る

"La mirabile visione: Abbozzo d'una storia della Divina Comedia" di Giovanni Pascoli. Pubblicato da e-artnow. e-artnow pubblica un grande numero di titoli, di ogni tipo e genere letterario. Dai clas……続きを見る

Dante Alighieris "Die Göttliche Komödie: 4 Übersetzungen in einem Band" präsentiert ein monumentales literarisches Werk, das die Reise des Protagonisten durch die Hölle, das Fegefeuer und das Paradi……続きを見る

Die Canterbury-Erzählungen von Geoffrey Chaucer gilt als ein Meisterwerk der englischen Literatur und stellt eine faszinierende Sammlung von Erzählungen dar, die sich um eine Pilgerreise nach Canter……続きを見る

Dante Alighieris "Die Göttliche Komödie" ist ein monumentales Werk der Weltliteratur, das den Leser auf eine metaphysische Reise durch die dimensionale Struktur des Jenseits - die Hölle, das Fegefeu……続きを見る

In der deutschen Ausgabe von "Die Edda", die Karl Simrock kunstvoll übersetzt hat, wird das magische und mythische Erbe der nordischen Kultur lebendig. Diese Sammlung von Gedichten und Erzählungen u……続きを見る

Hippolyte Taine's "History of English Literature" (Volumes 1-3) stands as a seminal work that intricately weaves together literary analysis and cultural criticism, offering a comprehensive explorati……続きを見る

Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy (Annotated Edition)" is a monumental epic poem that intricately weaves the allegorical journey of the protagonist through the realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Para……続きを見る