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A collection of twelve illustrated essays modeling innovative approaches to reading Chaucer’s visual poetics. Essays explore connections between Chaucer’s texts and various forms of visual data, medieval and modern, that can deepen and inform our understanding of Chaucer’s poetry.
Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England.
Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England.
Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
Translations of ninth-century lives of the emperors Charlemagne (by Einhard and Notker) and his son Louis the Pious (by Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer). Presented chronologically and contextually, with commentary.
Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
Translations of ninth-century lives of the emperors Charlemagne (by Einhard and Notker) and his son Louis the Pious (by Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer). Presented chronologically and contextually, with commentary.
Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
Traces an epistemological legacy from Romantic and Victorian ecological literature to modern scientific ecology. Investigates two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that continue to be debated today.
Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
Traces an epistemological legacy from Romantic and Victorian ecological literature to modern scientific ecology. Investigates two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that continue to be debated today.
Presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, told through a narrative of the crimes committed by a priest, Juan Bautista de Albadán, in the early 1600s.
