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  • Egil, the Viking Poet

    New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'

    Edición de Laurence de Looze, Jon Karl Helgason, Russell Poole, Torfi H. Tulinius ...
    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend.The contributors to this collection of essays ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Letter and the Cosmos

    How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World

    de Laurence de Looze ...
    From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Decameron

    de Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Traducido por G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    de Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Dark History of the Roman Emperors

    de Michael Kerrigan ...
    Series series Dark History
    Five of the first eleven emperors of Rome were assassinated and another two killed themselves rather than face the fury of their subjects. Nero sang while Rome burned. Caligula proclaimed himself a god. If not mad enough already, he also gave one of his horses a place on the senate. Rome rejoiced when many emperors died, only to find that they hated the next one just as much. From the death of ... Leer más

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  • Chaucer's Tale

    1386 and the Road to Canterbury

    de Paul Strohm ...
    A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury TalesIn 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that hehas today—far from it. The middle-aged Chaucer was living in London, working as a midlevel bureaucrat and ... Leer más

    Antes $5.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth Edition

    Edición de R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D Niles ...
    Series series Toronto Old English Studies
    Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Ascent of Humanity

    Civilization and the Human Sense of Self

    de Charles Eisenstein ...
    Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberty

    de Charles River Editors ...
    *Explains the history behind the creation and establishment of the Magna Carta.*Explains the influence the Magna Carta has had on Western democracy and which rights in the U.S. Constitution are derived from the Magna Carta.*Includes pictures of different copies of the Magna Carta*Includes footnotes that explain and provide some of the Magna Carta's text.*Includes a Table of Contents. To no man ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

    de Susan Wittig ...
    This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Revisiting the Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend

    Edición de Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington ...
    Series series Routledge Medieval Casebooks
    Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Moral Play and Counterpublic

    de Ineke Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD