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  • Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves

    Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii"

    In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.The text is Walter Map’s ... Leer más

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  • The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Unabridged Edition: Historical Novel about Salem Witch Trials from the Renowned American Author of "The Scarlet Letter" and "Twice-Told Tales" with Biography

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" masterfully intertwines themes of guilt, heritage, and supernatural elements within a Gothic narrative set against the backdrop of a haunting New England landscape. The novel employs richly descriptive prose and intricate symbolism, drawing from the historical context of the Salem witch trials to explore how ancestral sins shape contemporary ... Leer más

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  • A <I>Perceforest</I> Reader

    Selected Episodes from <I>Perceforest</I>: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

    Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material ... Leer más

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  • The Portable Chaucer

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    Traducido por Theodore Morrison ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing ... Leer más

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  • The Purgatorio

    Traducido por John Ciardi ...
    In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of the aspiring soul. ... Leer más

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  • Reynard the Fox

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    One of the greatest characters of medieval literature, the trickster Reynard the Fox, comes to life in this rollicking new translation.What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is they’ve all been had by one sly fox named Reynard. Originally bursting forth from Europe in the twelfth century, Reynard the Fox—a classic ... Leer más

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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

    Edición de Mr. John Gardner ...
    The classic tale of adventure, romance, and chivalry, translated by a master of storytellingThe adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet John Gardner has captured the humor, elegance, and richness ... Leer más

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    The Kaiserchronik (c.1152–1165) is the first verse chronicle to have been written in a language other than Latin. This story recounts the exploits of the Roman, Byzantine, Carolingian, and Holy Roman kings and rulers, from the establishment of Rome to the start of the Second Crusade. As an early example of popular history, it was written for a non-monastic audience who would have preferred to read ... Leer más

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  • The Elegies of Maximianus

    Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called "the last of the Roman poets," beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an advanced age, went as a diplomat to the emperor's court at Constantinople.A. M. Juster has translated the complete elegies of Maximianus faithfully ... Leer más

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