Movements & Periods
epub |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

4 In the Dark Where had he gone running to? The answer was simple: ‘Where could she be, but at the house of Fyodor Pavlovich? From Samsonov’s house she must ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 29,2019 )
azw |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John Marincola

As Herodotus tells it, the story falling, as it does, into three distinct episodes conforms to the preference for threefold organization characteristic of oral narrative (Olrik 1992: 52). But its ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-24 | Author:Augustine

The act itself which is performed under the influence of such lust shuns the public gaze. This is true not only of those debaucheries which need places of concealment in ...
( Category: History & Theory May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Claude Lecouteux

because that’s the boundary of Galvoie That knights cannot pass And ever return again. (6602–4) The boundary marker therefore signifies, to some extent, the beginning of a journey of no ...
( Category: Arthurian Romance May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phillips, Kim M.;

Conclusion Medieval travelers’ tales distinguished between levels of civility in different parts of Asia, as in Poggio’s summary of Niccolò’s narrative: All India is divided into three parts: the first, ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Nathen Amin [Amin, Nathen]

16 In Defence of the King 1431–1436 The carefully orchestrated trial and politically expedient execution of Joan of Arc failed to have any significant impact on the immediate war in ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Dana Sajdi [Sajdi, Dana]

FIGURE 8. Opening page of the manuscript of The Events of Damascus. Source: MS Chester Beatty Library, Ar 3551, f. 24b. To sum up the discussion of the margin notes, ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Paul Lacroix

Fig. 200.—Medal to commemorate the Association of the Merchants of the City of Rouen. It was not until the reign of Henry IV. that they again confined themselves to their ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Roger B. Ulrich & Caroline K. Quenemoen

Welch has demonstrated that the provision of amphitheaters in Italy and the western provinces during the late republican and early imperial periods was linked to army training and to veteran ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Dowden, Ken, Livingstone, Niall & Niall Livingstone

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi Zahra Newby Myth and the Sarcophagus: The Question of Interpretation The sudden emergence in the second century AD of marble sarcophagi decorated ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Arthur J. Pomeroy

Rossi and Greek and Roman Film Studies The three miniseries discussed offer a substantial body of work for further exploration: at eighteen hours in total, they provide nearly as much ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Wilkins, John; Nadeau, Robin; & Robin Nadeau

Historiography Research and publications on Greek dining have increased in the last 20 years. It is now possible to read a continuous history of this practice from the Mycenaean period ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Tyler Jo Smith & Dimitris Plantzos

21.3 Tyrants, Aristocrats, and their Impact on Art in the Archaic Period The 7th and 6th c. BC are characterized by intense mobility inside and outside the borders of the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Clackson, James

PART IV Literary Registers of Latin CHAPTER 19 The Language of Roman Comedy Wolfgang de Melo Introduction Roman comedy is not a uniform genre. The type that is best attested ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Ann C. Gunter

Figuring Protection Visual and material aspects of apotropaic practice also reveal the tropes of liminality and condoned transgression of divine power. The histories and identities of apotropaic figures engender various ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )