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  • - Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works
     
    1.248,95 kr.

    This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante's Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante's satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.

  • - Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
    af John M. Hill
    526,95 - 1.244,95 kr.

    Chaucer's Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.

  • - Inventing Women
    af Christopher M. Flavin
    1.121,95 kr.

    Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the performative role of women writers is critical to understanding the place of the individual in the broader Catholic intellectual tradition in the Anglophone world.

  • af Robert L. Kindrick
    1.104,95 kr.

    First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • - Humor and Evil
    af Nicolino Applauso
    547,95 - 1.511,95 kr.

    This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante's masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

  • - The Dark Side of Sex and Love in the Premodern Era
    af Albrecht Classen
    498,95 - 1.249,95 kr.

    Using an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, this book examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.

  • - A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World
     
    1.833,95 kr.

    In this volume, scholars of pre-modern Europe and the Arab world examine the issues of incarceration and slavery. The emphasis rests on religious, literary, philosophical, and historical narratives, buttressed by art-historical evidence, all of which demonstrates the true importance of these painful problems.

  • - Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works
     
    497,95 kr.

    This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante's Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante's satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.

  • af Andrew Breeze
    1.172,95 kr.

    The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet delves into the real origins of the legendary Arthur and reveals the true author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Through literary and historical analysis of the Gawain Manuscript, Dr. Breeze names Sir John Stanley as its author.

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