Alone Together. Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia, Hardback - Henry Berlin

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

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An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they a...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

Reducere. Why a 'spectacle' of the body? Why not an 'imaginary' of the body or 'images' or perhaps 'concepts'? Even to the lay reader, the two sets - 'specta...

Discover how and why animals decide to live in groups or alone: part natural science, part ecology. A picture book detailing the various ways anima...

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises the narrative of women's involvement in the German Dominican order, arguing that Dominican women ...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows ho...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middl...

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of as i...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cecil ReidIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 5 Tables, blac...

Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia redefines Iberian and curatorial Studies by situating curatorial practice at the ce...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating...

Reducere. "Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers...? I doubt it."--The Washington Post "A heartening gathering of writers joining forces for ...

Contributor(s): Author: Henry CorbinTranslator: Ralph Manheim"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like S...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 unleashed a struggle for political control of the peninsula that endured for nearly eight centuries. In this s...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between th...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Caroline Walker BynumNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paperback / so...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThe medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionA gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of t...

DescriptionAs anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situation...

DescriptionWhile the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belon...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...