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Chaucer's People

Everyday Lives in Medieval England

by Liza Picard ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza ... Read more

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The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza
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To Catch A King

Charles II's Great Escape

by Charles Spencer ...

Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and ... Read more

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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and
... Read more
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

by C. S. Lewis ...

Narrated by Richard Elwood ...

Unabridged

5 hours 59 min

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe'. This, Lewis's ... Read more

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The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe'. This, Lewis's
... Read more
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Patience

Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

by Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron ...

Narrated by Sarah Peverley, Joshua Lambie ...

Unabridged

36 min

"Patience" is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right.The poet’s usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and that of waiting, holding back, and exercising ... Read more

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"Patience" is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right.The poet’s usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and that of waiting, holding back, and exercising
... Read more
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis

How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind

by Jason M Baxter ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped ... Read more

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C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped
... Read more
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art

by Various ...

Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art by Various: Chambers's Journal is likely a periodical publication that covers a wide range of topics, including literature, science, and art. It may feature articles, essays, and stories by various authors.Key Aspects of "Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art":Multifaceted Content: The journal likely offers a diverse ... Read more

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art by Various: Chambers's Journal is likely a periodical publication that covers a wide range of topics, including literature, science, and art. It may feature articles, essays, and stories by various authors.Key Aspects of "Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art":Multifaceted Content: The journal likely offers a diverse
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Cryptic

From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts

by Garry J. Shaw ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

An absorbing history of Europe's nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the Voynich ManuscriptBooks can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten. But across the centuries, authors have disguised their work with codes and ciphers, secret scripts and magical signs. What made these authors decide to keep their writings secret? What were they ... Read more

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An absorbing history of Europe's nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the Voynich ManuscriptBooks can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten. But across the centuries, authors have disguised their work with codes and ciphers, secret scripts and magical signs. What made these authors decide to keep their writings secret? What were they
... Read more
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The Lays of Marie de France

by Marie de France ...

Narrated by David Rintoul, Georgina Sutton ...

Unabridged

5 hours 6 min

The 12 Lays of Marie de France offer one of the most striking collections of short narrative poems of the 12th century - two centuries before Chaucer.Written in Anglo-French, they contain beguiling and entertaining stories of love and romance, of chivalry and adventure with sometimes even a magical twist. They are especially unique in early literature by being ascribed to a female poet, Marie de ... Read more

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The 12 Lays of Marie de France offer one of the most striking collections of short narrative poems of the 12th century - two centuries before Chaucer.Written in Anglo-French, they contain beguiling and entertaining stories of love and romance, of chivalry and adventure with sometimes even a magical twist. They are especially unique in early literature by being ascribed to a female poet, Marie de
... Read more
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

by Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron ...

Narrated by Sarah Peverley, Joshua Lambie ...

Unabridged

2 hours 42 min

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is perhaps the best-known Arthurian romance in the English language, praised by Tolkien as ‘the best conceived and shaped narrative poem of the fourteenth century, indeed of the Middle Ages, in English.’Its story is well-known: New Year celebrations at Camelot are disrupted by the fearsome and strange appearance of the Green Knight who challenges Arthur's court to ... Read more

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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is perhaps the best-known Arthurian romance in the English language, praised by Tolkien as ‘the best conceived and shaped narrative poem of the fourteenth century, indeed of the Middle Ages, in English.’Its story is well-known: New Year celebrations at Camelot are disrupted by the fearsome and strange appearance of the Green Knight who challenges Arthur's court to
... Read more
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Masterpieces of Medieval Literature

by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Narrated by George K. Wilson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 20 min

It is during the Middle Ages that modern Europe, indeed, modern Western culture as we know it, comes to be. Classical Mediterranean culture drew from the ancient Middle East, and more directly, from the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. The Middle Ages add the Northlands, Celts, and Germans, and ultimately, Slavs as well, to the mix. And the Middle Ages saw the birth of the immediate predecessors of ... Read more

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It is during the Middle Ages that modern Europe, indeed, modern Western culture as we know it, comes to be. Classical Mediterranean culture drew from the ancient Middle East, and more directly, from the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. The Middle Ages add the Northlands, Celts, and Germans, and ultimately, Slavs as well, to the mix. And the Middle Ages saw the birth of the immediate predecessors of
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Why Dante Matters

An Intelligent Person's Guide

by Professor John Took ...

Narrated by Victor Vertunni ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

Bloomsbury presents Why Dante Matters by John Took, read by Victor Vertunni.John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri.The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, ‘divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third’. His, like ours, ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Why Dante Matters by John Took, read by Victor Vertunni.John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri.The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, ‘divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third’. His, like ours,
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Dante and His Divine Comedy

by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Narrated by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Dante's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. The Commedia is about the afterlife, not just Hell, but Purgatory and Heaven, too. Dante's genius is the genius of the allegorical method. The Commedia is, in the first instance, an account of Dante's own salvation. In chronicling his own recovery, indeed his salvation, Dante not only provides us with an ... Read more

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Dante's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. The Commedia is about the afterlife, not just Hell, but Purgatory and Heaven, too. Dante's genius is the genius of the allegorical method. The Commedia is, in the first instance, an account of Dante's own salvation. In chronicling his own recovery, indeed his salvation, Dante not only provides us with an
... Read more
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Tales From The Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

The book reflects the cultural and social changes of the Jazz Age, a time characterized by optimism, decadence, and excess. The stories explore themes of love, wealth, ambition, and disillusionment, as well as the disillusionment of the American Dream. Through his characters, Fitzgerald critiques the morality of the wealthy and the emptiness of their lives. The collection provides a unique insight ... Read more

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The book reflects the cultural and social changes of the Jazz Age, a time characterized by optimism, decadence, and excess. The stories explore themes of love, wealth, ambition, and disillusionment, as well as the disillusionment of the American Dream. Through his characters, Fitzgerald critiques the morality of the wealthy and the emptiness of their lives. The collection provides a unique insight
... Read more
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Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc

by Mario Vargas Llosa ...

Narrated by Mario Velásquez, Benjamín Figueres ...

Unabridged

3 hours 30 min

En este libro Mario Vargas Llosa nos descubre el poder de la palabra, la pasión sutil y abstracta de Tirant lo Blanc**, considerada por él como una de las novelas más ambiciosas y modernas de entre las clásicas.**«Entre los muchos atributos del Tirant lo Blanc el que más admiro es su ambición. Esa voluntad deicida de recrearlo todo, de contarlo todo, desde lo más infinitamente pequeño hasta lo más ... Read more

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En este libro Mario Vargas Llosa nos descubre el poder de la palabra, la pasión sutil y abstracta de Tirant lo Blanc**, considerada por él como una de las novelas más ambiciosas y modernas de entre las clásicas.**«Entre los muchos atributos del Tirant lo Blanc el que más admiro es su ambición. Esa voluntad deicida de recrearlo todo, de contarlo todo, desde lo más infinitamente pequeño hasta lo más
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Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France

A Family Affair

by S. C. Kaplan ...

Narrated by S. C. Kaplan ...

Series series Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Unabridged

4 hours 51 min

How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by female readers of the fifteenth century? What substantial gaps in evidence and data loss impede our knowledge of medieval women’s libraries? Combining literary, historical, and cultural studies, Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, ... Read more

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How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by female readers of the fifteenth century? What substantial gaps in evidence and data loss impede our knowledge of medieval women’s libraries? Combining literary, historical, and cultural studies, Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy,
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Odyssey of the West III

A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World

by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Narrated by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

Odyssey of the West I and II explored timeless works from the ancient world that shaped, and continue to shape, the culture and philosophies of life today. In part three of this fascinating series, Professor Timothy B. Shutt of Kenyon College is joined by Professors Thomas F. Madden (Saint Louis University) and Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William & Mary) as they examine the most ... Read more

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Odyssey of the West I and II explored timeless works from the ancient world that shaped, and continue to shape, the culture and philosophies of life today. In part three of this fascinating series, Professor Timothy B. Shutt of Kenyon College is joined by Professors Thomas F. Madden (Saint Louis University) and Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William & Mary) as they examine the most
... Read more
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Piers Plowman

The Vision of a People's Christ

by William Langland ...

Narrated by Mike Rogers ...

Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

Probably written in the latter half of the 14th century in the South-West-Midlands dialect, Piers Plowman is a remarkable example of allegorical, alliterative verse that conveyed, for the first time ever, the authentic voice, spirit and character of the ordinary people of England.Very little is known about William Langland, the presumed author, but it is very much a product of the medieval mind ... Read more

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Probably written in the latter half of the 14th century in the South-West-Midlands dialect, Piers Plowman is a remarkable example of allegorical, alliterative verse that conveyed, for the first time ever, the authentic voice, spirit and character of the ordinary people of England.Very little is known about William Langland, the presumed author, but it is very much a product of the medieval mind
... Read more
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Chaucer

A European Life

by Marion Turner ...

Narrated by Marion Turner ...

Unabridged

20 hours 9 min

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life?yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing ... Read more

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A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life?yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing
... Read more
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The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman

From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

by Shiloh Carroll ...

Narrated by Petrea Burchard ...

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min

Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology.Readers love to sink into Gaiman's medieval worlds—but what ... Read more

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Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology.Readers love to sink into Gaiman's medieval worlds—but what
... Read more
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The Wife of Bath

A Biography

by Marion Turner ...

Narrated by Marion Turner ...

Unabridged

8 hours 20 min

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Drydento Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

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From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Drydento Zadie Smith. Few
... Read more
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Pearl

Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

by Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron ...

Narrated by Sarah Peverley, Joshua Lambie ...

Unabridged

1 hour 4 min

‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish, grievously wounded by the power of my love for that spotless pearl of mine.’"Pearl" is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. It is widely ... Read more

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‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish, grievously wounded by the power of my love for that spotless pearl of mine.’"Pearl" is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. It is widely
... Read more
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 130, vol. III, June 26, 1886

by Various ...

Unabridged

2 hours 1 min

Welcome to the world of Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 130, vol. III, June 26, 1886, a treasure trove of Victorian-era knowledge, creativity, and cultural exploration.Step back in time to the vibrant literary and scientific landscape of the late 19th century with this meticulously curated collection of articles, stories, and insights. Explore a myriad ... Read more

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Welcome to the world of Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 130, vol. III, June 26, 1886, a treasure trove of Victorian-era knowledge, creativity, and cultural exploration.Step back in time to the vibrant literary and scientific landscape of the late 19th century with this meticulously curated collection of articles, stories, and insights. Explore a myriad
... Read more
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The Heart of It

The Canterbury Tales and Paradise Lost

by Elizabeth McNamer ...

Narrated by Elizabeth McNamer ...

Series series The Heart of It
Unabridged

52 min

The Canterbury Tales & Paradise Lost are two epic works that have been entertaining— and sometimes exasperating— readers for centuries. In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two iconic works of British literature.Geoffrey Chaucer's merry charm and John Milton's high seriousness become relatable to modern minds when explored by Dr. McNamer ... Read more

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The Canterbury Tales & Paradise Lost are two epic works that have been entertaining— and sometimes exasperating— readers for centuries. In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two iconic works of British literature.Geoffrey Chaucer's merry charm and John Milton's high seriousness become relatable to modern minds when explored by Dr. McNamer
... Read more
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Dante

by John Took ...

Narrated by John Took ...

Unabridged

26 hours 30 min

For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri(1265–1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante’s writings aretherefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography,which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet’s life and thought beforeand after his exile in 1302.Beginning with the often violent ... Read more

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For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri(1265–1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante’s writings aretherefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography,which offers a fresh account of the medieval Florentine poet’s life and thought beforeand after his exile in 1302.Beginning with the often violent
... Read more

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Chaucer's People

To Catch A King

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Patience

The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art

Cryptic

The Lays of Marie de France

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Masterpieces of Medieval Literature

Why Dante Matters

Dante and His Divine Comedy

Tales From The Jazz Age

Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc

Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France

Odyssey of the West III

Piers Plowman

Chaucer

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman

The Wife of Bath

Pearl

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 130, vol. III, June 26, 1886

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