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  • Introducing Medieval Animal Names

    de Ben Parsons ...
    Series series Medieval Animals
    What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary, documentary and material sources, it surveys the surviving evidence of pet-naming from the period, as well as examining the labels given to livestock and working animals, and the folk-names given to wild birds ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Punishment and Medieval Education

    de Ben Parsons ...
    What meanys shall I use to lurne withoute betynge?, asks a pupil in a translation exercise compiled at Oxford in 1460s. One of the most conspicuous features of medieval education is its reliance on flogging. Throughout the period, the rod looms large in literary and artistic depictions of the schoolroom: it appears in teaching manuals, classroom exercises, and even in the iconography of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Ben Thompson

    Portrait of a Gunfighter

    Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional gambler, and the victor of numerous gunfights. As a leading member of the Wild West’s sporting ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Just Beneath Your Boat

    Tales of Aquatic Terror

    23 authors and 11 artists came together to create this aquatic horror anthology curated and edited by Tom Folske. Throughout history, tales of water monsters have fueled sailors' and swimmers' stories, bringing a new fear from the murky depths of the world's most unexplored regions. As it stands, we know more about space than what we know about what lurks at the bottom of the deepest trenches of ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    The Trial of Leopold & Loeb: Dickie & Babe

    A full-cast courtroom drama based on the original 1924 trial transcripts

    de Ben Devlin ...
    Narrado por Sandra Parsons ...
    Series Audiolibro 1 - Trials of the Century

    Completo

    1 horas 31 minutos

    The true story that inspired Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.In a Chicago courtroom in 1924, two young men stand accused of a crime that shocked the nation. This production presents their trial as a full-cast audio drama based on the original courtroom transcripts.The Trial of Leopold & Loeb: Dickie & Babe reconstructs one of the most famous criminal cases of the twentieth century as a feature ... Leer más

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    Series Libro 88 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often ... Leer más

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  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Series Libro 36 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Leer más

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  • Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder

    States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective states had the potential to destroy order, creating undesirable disorder and instability that had ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

    Volume 1: 800-1558

    Edición de Rita Copeland ...
    Series series Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
    The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    Series Libro 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Leer más

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  • The Wife of Bath

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  • Generations of Feeling

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    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Leer más

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