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“robert de reims”

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  • Robert de Reims

    Songs and Motets

    by Robert de Reims, Eglal Doss-Quinby, Gaël Saint-Cricq, Samuel N. Rosenberg ...
    Robert de Reims, also known as “La Chievre de Rains,” was among the earliest trouvères—poet-composers who were contemporaries of the troubadours but who wrote in the dialects of northern France. This critical edition provides new translations into English and modern French of all the songs and motets ascribed to him, along with the original texts, the extant music, and a substantive introduction ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Selected Poems

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    Translated by Malcolm Quainton, Elizabeth Vinestock ...
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  • The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    Series Book 3 - The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series
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  • Corpus

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Richard A. Rand ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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  • Love Sonnets and Elegies

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    by Richard Sieburth, Louise Labé ...
    Louise Labé, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

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    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

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  • Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

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  • Guillaume de Machaut

    A Guide to Research

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    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    This book provides an overview of the current state of research on Machaut, the major figure of 14th-century French music and poetry, giving fair representation to the many areas of Machaut research that are pursued in fields outside music.Coverage of the current state of knowledge on each of the manuscripts includes the newly discovered Aberystwyth manuscript, described in detail here for the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD