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  • Medieval Armoured Combat

    The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven

    The "Gladiatoria" group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting.Gloriously-illustrated, and replete with substantial commentary, these works are some of the greatest achievements in the corpus of late medieval fight books. These works have both tremendous artistic merit and incalculable historical value.In this ... Leer más

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  • The Damned Art (RLE Witchcraft)

    Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft

    Edición de Sydney Anglo ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
    This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Sword Combat

    A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship

    de Joachim Meyer ...
    This sixteenth-century German guide to sword fighting and combat training is a crucial source for understanding medieval swordplay techniques.Following his translation of Joachim Meyer's The Art of Combat, Jeffrey L. Forgeng was alerted to an earlier version of Meyer's text, discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden. The manuscript, produced in Strasbourg around 1568, is illustrated with ... Leer más

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  • The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

    A Dual Language Edition

    Traducido por Stephen Mitchell ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of ... Leer más

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  • The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

    Series series The History of Civilization
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and ... Leer más

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  • Satan: A Biography

    A Biography

    The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes comical, Satan has played a variety of roles in human existence.Feared and frightening adversary ... Leer más

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  • Selected Poems and Fragments

    Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of ... Leer más

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Leer más

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  • Lenz

    de Georg Buchner ...
    Traducido por Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Leer más

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  • Children of Lucifer

    The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism

    Series series Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
    If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the details of which mainstream society imagines with a fascination ... Leer más

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  • The Devil Within

    Possession & Exorcism in the Christian West

    de Brian Levack ...
    A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of demon possession and exorcism through the ages.In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects ... Leer más

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  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Edición de Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... Leer más

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