Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature, Hardcover - Jan-Peer Hartmann

Reducere. Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 260Collection: Theme...

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome's persistence in medieval and early ...

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Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies vie...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments...

The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisa...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Adam Izdebski And JaNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 17...

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Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

DescriptionThis History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical ...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Provocative interrogation of how the Ottonian kingdom grew and flourished, focussing on the resources required.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAutho...

Reducere. A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of ...

Pigs were an integral part of society in the medieval West. Historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates how the working relationships between humans and p...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promo...

DescriptionSwords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were enshrined in writing. Many were curated for generation...

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

Reducere. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in ...

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary t...

This richly illustrated book presents the fascinating results from a major project to examine the heritage of Finzel's Reach, the site of the forme...

DescriptionOrtner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive tr...

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Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

Publisher: BAR PublishingAuthor(s): Veerle LinseeleNumber of pages: 348Collection: British Archaeological Reports International SeriesPublication d...

A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts ...

DescriptionCarrying around resentments and anger is a heavy burden. And usually the only person you're hurting is yourself, not the person you're m...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

The 'cyclic' polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages. This study explores its meaning both from...

DescriptionHow a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of bankingPrevailing wisdom dictates that, without b...

Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils' knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them ...

As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. T...

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign ...

Publisher: The History Press LtdPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 207 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Publisher: The History Press LtdPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe...

Reducere. Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this u...

This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water prov...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...