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  • An Introduction to Jean Bodel

    by Lynn T. Ramey ...
    Series series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions
    Bringing the work of a highly influential medieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first timeThis book explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who lived in twelfth-century Arras, France. A versatile poet, playwright, and epic writer who established new genres such as fabliaux and the mystery play, Bodel remains relatively unknown to Anglophone audiences ... Read more

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  • Engagements with Literary Gaming

    Series series Routledge Engagements with Literature
    How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the cultural significance of these two converging forms, defining the concept of literary gaming for a new narrative, ludic, and media landscape.Narratives have long featured ludic themes, and games are increasingly incorporating narrative structures. As a critical concept, ludonarratology ... Read more

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  • Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom

    Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom offers practical suggestions for educators looking to incorporate ludic media, ranging from novels to video games and from poems to board games, into their curricula. Across the globe, video games and interactive media have already been granted their own departments at numerous larger institutions and will increasingly fall under the ... Read more

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  • Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature

    Imagination and Cultural Interaction in the French Middle Ages

    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500. ... Read more

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Read more

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  • The Essential Nostradamus

    A handsome, compact new edition of the singularly reliable translation of the writings of history's most famous seer-now published with a new afterword on Nostradamus and 2012.The prophecies of Nostradamus have ignited intense fascination throughout the West since they were first published in the sixteenth century. These enigmatic quatrains have gained special meaning for many during our current ... Read more

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  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    by E. R. Truitt ...
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    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... Read more

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  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

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    The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other cheek rather than seek vengeance and who taught that the meek, rather ... Read more

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  • Montaigne

    A Life

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  • Idols in the East

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  • The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre

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    Translated by Joseph Bergin ...
    On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of ... Read more

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