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  • Material Remains

    Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature

    Edited by Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation, or contemplation of archaeological objects can be found in texts ranging from hagiography to elegiac poetry, from historiography to romance—across regions and periods. This volume gathers voices to explore the ways in which these texts employ ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Strange matter

    Medieval disruptions of time

    Edited by Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and non-European origin to Macbeth’s highly evocative meditation on bubbles, the essays compiled in this ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Failbook

    When innovation goes wrong: failures, errors, business mistakes – and what you can learn from them

    by VNTR, Alice Dal Fuoco, David Reichenau, Mathias Strazza, Yasmin Wieland, Nicolas Bärtschi, Tobias Bassi, Maximilian Böger, Sergio Consonni, Londono Javier Correa, Olivia Deubelbeiss, Kathrin Fortmann, Lia Hänggeli, Jan Hartmann, Thierry Hess, Denis Lenz, Matthias Loepfe, Christian Renner, Lucas Sigrist, Franziska Steiner, Olivier Weiss ...
    74 failures, 10 key learnings and 1 mission: promoting a positive culture of mistakes in business. The innovation team at a major Swiss corporation reveal the things that others might want to keep secret – with charm, courage and humour, plus an ironic series of images from daily working life. Instead of glossing over mistakes, the book demonstrates how to draw valuable insights from failed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Successbook

    When innovation works out: success stories, key factors, innovation myths – and what you can learn from them

    by VNTR, Alice Dal Fuoco, David Reichenau, Mathias Strazza, Yasmin Wieland, Nicolas Bärtschi, Tobias Bassi, Maximilian Böger, Sergio Consonni, Londono Javier Correa, Olivia Deubelbeiss, Kathrin Fortmann, Lia Hänggeli, Jan Hartmann, Thierry Hess, Denis Lenz, Matthias Loepfe, Christian Renner, Lucas Sigrist, Franziska Steiner, Olivier Weiss ...
    9 success stories, 73 viewpoints, 10 key learnings and 1 mission: successful innovation. The successbook takes a look at the innovation processes at a major Swiss corporation. Success factors and innovation myths are examined with the input of experts. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    by Matthew Reynolds ...
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    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

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  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

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  • Bibliophobia

    The End and the Beginning of the Book

    by Brian Cummings ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Meaning of the Library

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Alice Crawford ...
    The importance of the library, from ancient times to the digital eraFrom Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism

    Edited by Louise D'Arcens ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of images and ideas that have been vital to defining 'the modern'. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Medievalism: Key Critical Terms

    by Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Gwendolyn Morgan, Jonathan Hsy, Juanita Feros Ruys, Kathleen Biddick, Kevin Moberly, Kevin Murphy, Laura Morowitz, Lauryn S. Mayer0, Richard Utz2, Lisa Reilly3, Louise D'Arcens4, Professor M J Toswell5, Martha Carlin6, Martin Arnold7, Matthew Fisher8, Michael A Cramer9, Nadia Altschul0, Nadia Margolis1, Nils Holger Petersen2, Amy S. Kaufman3, Pamela Clements4, Tom Shippey5, Vincent Ferre6, William Calin7, Zrinka Stahuljak8, Professor Angela Jane Weisl9, Brent Moberly0, Carol L. Robinson1, Clare A Simmons2, David Matthews3, E L Risden4 ...
    The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to ... Read more

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  • The Monstrous Middle Ages

    Edited by Bettina Bildhauer, Robert Mills ...
    The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as simply an unintelligible and abject other. This text looks at both the representation of literal ... Read more

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