Movements & Periods
azw3 |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Siân Echard
In other words, the reason why no historian reports Arthur’s death is that no one was present to witness it when it happened. The ambiguity surrounding his death is thus ...
( Category:
Arthurian Romance
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:
VII THE POST-VULGATE CYCLE IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA Paloma Gracia Between 1235 and 1240 the cycle known as the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, or simply as the Post-Vulgate (P-V), was ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]
Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Andersson, Theodore M. [Andersson, Theodore M.]
Adam explains that he turned aside from "Bologna, Florence, and Perugia on account of the raging wars of the Duke of Milan."12 By staying within the Duke's territory as far ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]
CHAPTER XIV SIR TRISTRAM'S BATTLE WITH SIR LAUNCELOT Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Elliott, Dyan [Elliott, Dyan]
1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the conference “Constructing Medieval Sexualities,” sponsored by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in ...
( Category:
Renaissance
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:King, Katherine Callen [King, Katherine Callen]
Penelope Penelope is the archetypal faithful wife. The ghost of Agamemnon exclaims, “How good were the thoughts of blameless Penelope, daughter of Ikarios! How well she remembered Odysseus, her lawful ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-12 | Author:
The pioneering techniques, set into place with a new defensive mindset, may be seen in the early fourth‐century BCE circuit wall at Syracuse. Dionysios I recognized the necessity of protecting ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:
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 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:
8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:
The First Intermediate Period—Catching the Most Colorful Moments of Life The First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom are considered basic stages in the elaboration of ideas that had lasting influence ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Nicolson, Adam [Nicolson, Adam]
A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-30 | Author:Thucydides
656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Romilly, Jacqueline de [Romilly, Jacqueline de]
Chance and Intelligence As narrated by Thucydides, the battle, though neither dry nor disembodied, may be offered chiefly as a lesson. It is first of all a lesson to the ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Sophocles & Aeschylus & Euripides
strophe CHORUS: Someone who wishes to live too long, who spurns a moderate share in life, clings, all too clearly, in my view, to delusion. For the long days pile ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
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