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  • The Disciple's Way

    Journeying With Jesus to Jerusalem

    by Charlie Holt, Reagan Cocke, Louise Samuelson ...
    Series Book 1 - St. John the Divine Life Group Study
    Jesus is calling you to something more...Are you ready?Do you consider yourself a disciple of Jesus? Are you ready to fully explore what that means?Travel with Jesus and his disciples from Galilee to Jerusalem in this engaging six-week study.Listen to his debates with the Pharisees. Witness his encounters with the spiritually hungry.Experience his heart for the dispossessed. As Jesus prepares his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Courtly and Queer

    Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature

    by Charlie Samuelson ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    In Courtly and Queer, Charlie Samuelson casts queerness in medieval French texts about courtly love in a new light by bringing together for the first time two exemplary genres: high medieval verse romance, associated with the towering figure of Chrétien de Troyes, and late medieval dits, primarily associated with Guillaume de Machaut. In close readings informed by deconstruction and queer theory, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Futures of Medieval French

    Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay

    by Jane Gilbert, Zrinka Stahuljak, Susan Boynton, Joseph R. Johnson, Virginie Greene, Stephen G. Nichols, Christine Bourgeois, Deborah McGrady, Sophie Marnette, Emily Kate Price0, Simone Ventura1, Miranda Griffin3, James R. Simpson4, Elizabeth Eva Leach5, Profesor Sharon Kinoshita6, Simon Gaunt7, Peggy McCracken8, William Burgwinkle9, Miriam Cabre0, Helen J. Swift1, Charlie Samuelson2, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne3 ...
    Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How to Create Kind Schools

    12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in

    by Jenny Hulme, Kidscape, Anthony Horowitz, The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation, Jill Halfpenny, The Prince's Trust, Jamie Oliver, Diversity Role Models, Charlie Condou, David Charles Manners, Friends, Families and Travellers, Achievement for All, Henry Winkler, Thrive, David Martin Domoney, The National Autistic Society, Jane Asher, Youth Dance England, Dance United, nocturn dance, 2faced dance, Linda Jasper, Carers Trust, Michael Sheen, BEAT, Jack Jacobs, NSPCC, Ade Adepitan, Janet Whitaker ...
    Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.From a gay role model to a peer mentor, a dance workshop to a gardening club, an autism ambassador to a travelling Gypsy theatre group, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    by R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowing Poetry

    Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"

    by Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay ...
    In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

    Edited by Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Controlling Readers

    Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience

    by Deborah L. McGrady ...
    Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

    Edited by John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Matter of Mind

    Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

    by Christopher Braider ...
    What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature

    by Jane Gilbert ...
    Series Book 84 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deaths. Jane Gilbert's original study examines the ways in which certain medieval literary texts, both English and French, use these 'living dead' to think about existential, ethical and political issues. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD