Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England, Hardcover - Elizabeth Allen

Reducere. To seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine prese...

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...

- An epitomy of all surviving English medieval recipes - The great advantage for students of medieval English cookery is that there is an identifia...

New paperback edition - The perfect almanac for lovers of all things medieval. A detailed picture is gathered from original sources.

Drawing on a wide array of sources, including plea rolls, guides for confessors, and popular literature of the era, this book argues that issues of...

Reducere. This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into d...

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 6 b/w illus.Numb...

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different ...

Reducere. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, ...

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - ar...

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 ...

DescriptionPeople in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but t...

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

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 portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons--men of good family but small fortune ​In Regency Engl...

Reducere. Battle Angels - 4: 52Termination Force - 3: 38Die For My Sins - 3: 30Soldiers Of Steel - 5: 30Sanctuary - 3: 57White Rabbit - 3: 10Ascension To Des...

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth Carolyn MillerIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dim...

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

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DescriptionA celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--an...

The bitter civil war for the English throne, which drew in Scotland and Normandy, when a princess's rightful throne was seized by her male cousin, ...

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents ...

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relation...

With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship w...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Medieval England, then keep reading...Medieval England's history starts with the fall of the...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Heather (Professor of English, Professor of English, Marquette University) HathawayIllustration(s)...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the TudorsFive Tudor monarchs sat on the throne of England and Ireland from 1485 to 1603. The family earned thei...

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Ele...

The Legitimacy of Bastards is the first book to consider the individuals who had illegitimate children, the ways in which they provided for them an...

A unique addition to the increasingly popular trend of looking at the ordinary lives of people. Provides an important perspective from the ground u...