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The Wisdom of the Middle Ages by Michael K. Kellogg
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Michael K. Kellogg

THE EARLY ROMANCES The opening of the first Arthurian romance, Erec and Enide, already strikes a note of decline and discord. Arthur wishes to hunt the white stag in order ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2017 )
Selected Works by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Cicero

PART TWO HOW TO LIVE CHAPTER FOUR A PRACTICAL CODE OF BEHAVIOUR (ON DUTIES · III) No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2017 )
Rumi: The Book of Love by Coleman Barks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coleman Barks

LOOKING INTO THE CREEK The way the soul is with the senses and the intellect is like a creek. When desire weeds grow thick, intelligence can’t flow, and soul creatures ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 27,2017 )
Dante by Marco Santagata
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Marco Santagata [Santagata, Marco]

Baldo d’Aguglione’s amnesty In the year when Henry’s prospects were beginning to fail, the other actors on the scene were busy in diplomatic exchanges and some major military activity. Clement ...
( Category: Italy July 21,2016 )
Harry Potter 04 & The Goblet Of Fire (Illustrated) by J.K. Rowling
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:J.K. Rowling [Rowling, J.K.]

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and ...
( Category: Medieval June 27,2016 )
A Companion to Ancient Education by Bloomer W. Martin;
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Bloomer, W. Martin;

2. Tullia Because few letters survive from Tullia’s early years, information is sparse. The schooling of a girl was brief, because she could expect to marry soon after puberty, though ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )
A Most Dangerous Book by Christopher B. Krebs
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, ita | 2011-08-08 | Author:Christopher B. Krebs

8. A Germanic farmer in Justus Möser’s History of Osnabrück. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, 47528.1.10. A woodcut adorns the History of Osnabrück. Traditional and Tacitean, it looks back to ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Bates

13. Shapeshifters In the real Middle-earth, it was believed that certain people could alter their shape and spirit from human to animal form. So that they appeared, sounded and behaved ...
( Category: European April 25,2016 )
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature by Rebecca Lemon & Emma Mason & Jonathan Roberts & Christopher Rowland
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Rebecca Lemon & Emma Mason & Jonathan Roberts & Christopher Rowland

CHAPTER 25 Jonathan Swift Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Writing to the Duke of Dorset to ask a favor for a fellow clergyman in financial distress, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St ...
( Category: European April 20,2016 )
The Classics by Mary Beard
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Mary Beard

In the fourteenth century Dante cast the Roman poet Virgil as his guide in his poem Inferno (or Hell—part of his Divine Comedy). In this painting, Dante and Virgil in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 9,2016 )
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by Michael Ferber
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber

N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category: European February 21,2016 )
Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination by Mojca Küplen
epub |eng | | Author:Mojca Küplen

The main idea that these passages suggest is that judgments of taste depend on an a priori principle and that this principle is the necessary presupposition of the purposiveness of ...
( Category: Medieval January 30,2016 )
A Companion to Greek Literature by Hose Martin; Schenker David; & David Schenker
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Hose, Martin; Schenker, David; & David Schenker

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: Ancient & Classical January 25,2016 )
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hainsworth Peter & Robey David
epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Hainsworth, Peter & Robey, David [Robey, David]

8. Elio Vittorini (right) with Alberto Moravia in the 1950s Like Vittorini, the narrator and protagonist is a Sicilian, Silvestro, living and working in the north, who recounts a journey ...
( Category: Medieval January 6,2016 )
The Birth of Theory by Andrew Cole
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Andrew Cole [Cole, Andrew]

6 On Dialectical Interpretation I dwell in Possibility— EMILY DICKINSON Getting Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Leopold von Ranke to agree on something would be a marvelous occasion. But in ...
( Category: European January 5,2016 )

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