Medieval 85

Tommaso Ventura was a distinguished Italian jurist, lawyer, and Freemason. His legal training is clearly evident in the analytical rigor he applied not only to his technical legal texts but also to ……続きを見る

Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are transmitted from one person to another. These examples capture the contagion-like ……続きを見る

تخلیقِ تاریخ: کندنِ فن انجینئر ڈاکٹر نائلہ حنا یہ کتاب فن کی تاریخ اور یادداشت کے اس سفر کو بیان کرتی ہے جو فراموشی سے شروع ہوتا ہے اور مصنوعی ذہانت کے ذریعے مستقبل کی جمالیات تک پہنچتا ہے۔ یہ تخلیق……続きを見る

Providing the first edited text, translation and commentary of two Renaissance dream-narrative satires, this edition sheds light on the period's literary history and reception of classical texts. Cl……続きを見る

This two-volume study traces developments in English narrative structure from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, building on the theses set out in Monika Fludernik’s award-winning Towa……続きを見る

Mujeres soñadas no es solo un libro de mitos. Su intención es mostrar la eficacia del mito como proyección de experiencias humanas, pero en esta ocasión a partir de la perspectiva de las mujeres. Lo……続きを見る

Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical records Medieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, ……続きを見る

The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader studies and studies of nature. The volume addresses encounters with, responses……続きを見る

Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing critical overviews of the whole poem*.* This unique collaborative volume, written b……続きを見る

Un viaggio intimo dietro il sipario della figura pubblica, svelando le fragilità, le amicizie e le passioni nascoste di un gigante della letteratura. Attraverso lettere mai pubblicate prima, emerge ……続きを見る

In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belo……続きを見る

Scoprite i segreti più intimi e i tormenti nascosti di una delle figure letterarie più imponenti attraverso le sue lettere private, mai destinate al pubblico. Questo epistolario rivela un animo vuln……続きを見る

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

Before the Brothers Grimm, before Wagner's operas, the Germanic peoples shared a cycle of heroic stories that crossed kingdoms and centuries ー tales of dragon-slayers, exiled kings, and the doomed ……続きを見る

The Mabinogion Set is a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. It is also a book about a mathematical phenomenon: fractals. Fractals are mathematica……続きを見る

The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B. W. Matz offers a fascinating exploration of the inns, taverns, and local settings that appear in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The book combines litera……続きを見る

The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended u……続きを見る

Since the Middle Ages, bears have most frequently been seen as objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears as pests to be eradicated because of the danger they posed to human beings and li……続きを見る