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  • Amerikanische Satiren

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Amerika ist schon ein schrulliges Land, vielleicht weil so viele Menschen aus der ganzen Welt hier ankommen, vielleicht aber auch, weil es so groß und immer noch so jung ist. Aber die politische Situation und das Verhalten der Menschen allgemein geben doch viel Anlass, sich eher sarkastisch darüber zu äußern. Albrecht Classen lebt und lehrt nun schon seit 1984 in den USA, seit 1987 in Arizona, und ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages

    Literary-Historical Analyses

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Haikus – Hawai'ian Experiences

    Poetic and Visual Explorations

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Viele träumen von Hawai'i, dem 50. Staat der USA. In der Werbung gibt es viele beeindruckende Bilder von diesen Inseln, aber nur wenn man dort länger lebt und mit der Kamera genauer hinschaut, und dazu auch noch Lyrik in der Gattung der Haiku verfasst, kommt uns diese subtropische Welt näher. Klar, da sind die schönen Strände, aber oftmals säumen raue Basaltgesteine die Küste. Ein näherer Blick ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Secret in Medieval Literature

    Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

    A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World

    by Albrecht Classen, Warren Tormey, Chiara Benati, Doaa Omran, Christiane Paulus, Magda Hasabelnaby, Amany El-Sawy, Sarah Whitten, Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez, Carlee Arnett0, Maria Cecilia Ruiz1, Sally Abed2, Maha Baddar3, Andreas Lehnertz4, Birgit Wiedl5, J. Michael Fulton6, Filip Hrbek7, Thomas Willard8, Fidel Fajardo-Acosta9, Daniel F. Pigg0 ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Deep Words and Epiphanies

    Haikus and Word Magic

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    englische Haikus, die über die Welt, Natur und die Menschen reflektieren und zum Nachdenken anregen. Sie sind alle in Reaktion auf meine eigenen Fotos entstanden, die ich oftmals auf FB veröffentlicht habe. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wisdom from the European Middle Ages

    Literary and Didactic Perspectives

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    This book brings together, in a modern English translation, a selection of relevant medieval texts that are determined by wisdom. Mostly hidden in a literary framework, the messages contained in these excerpts prove to be highly valuable for all people throughout time, addressing ethical, moral, and religious values and ideals. Critical discussions of the meaning of wisdom frame the text anthology ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutchliteratures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World

    Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry

    Secular and Religious Songs

    Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen's careful investigation of archival material, however, proves this to be a misconception, and in this volume he presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, here ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Albrecht Classen ...
    This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

    The Dark Side of Sex and Love in the Premodern Era

    by Albrecht Classen ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social and cultural meanings across time periods, little has been written about literary representations of prostitution. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature analyses the work of writers from an array of social positions, including ... Read more

    $38.09 USD