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30 produkter
Three Political Tales from Medieval Germany
Duke Ernst, Henry of Kempten, and Reynard the Fox
Inbunden, 2024
803 kr
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Accurate and entertaining translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systemsRecent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political systems long thought to be resilient can be …
Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe
Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae
E-bok, 2009
1645 kr
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What happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from paradise?Where the biblical narrative fell silent apocryphal writings took up this intriguing question, notably including the Early Christian Latin text, the Life of Adam and Eve. This account describes the (failed) attempt of the couple to …
Gregorius
An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond
E-bok, 2012
1476 kr
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The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond. In a memorable narrative Gregorius is born from an incestuous relationship between a noble brother and sister, and is set out to sea with (unspecific) details of his …
The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe
Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae
Inbunden, 2009
2968 kr
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What happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from paradise? Where the biblical narrative fell silent apocryphal writings took up this intriguing question, notably including the Early Christian Latin text, the Life of Adam and Eve. This account describes the (failed) attempt of the couple to …
Gregorius
An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond
Inbunden, 2012
2336 kr
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The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond. In a memorable narrative Gregorius is born from an incestuous relationship between a noble brother and sister, and is set out to sea with (unspecific) details of his …
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
Inbunden, 1990
2578 kr
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The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
Häftad, 2018
650 kr
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The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.
Memory and Memorials
The Commemorative Century
Av William Kidd, Brian Murdoch
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on …
The Apocryphal Lives Of Adam And Eve
Av Brian Murdoch, Jacqueline Tasioulas
Häftad, 2002
543 kr
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This edition, the first since 1878, offers Middle English texts accompanied by detailed notes contextualizing the poems within an apocryphal tradition and full glossary. The Introduction reviews the development of the Adam and Eve legend in medieval European vernacular. Last edited in 1878, the two …
Cornish Literature
Inbunden, 1993
1428 kr
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Comparative study of Cornish literature, placing it in a wider context and looking in detail at major works.`This admirable survey...compact, smoothly written, easy to read and digest, yet indicative throughout of profound scholarship and an obvious mastery of the field, Cornish Literatureprovides …
Medieval Popular Bible
Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2003
1415 kr
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The presentation, the use, and the possible reception of the book of Genesis to lay audience largely unable to read the original texts.What was meant by the medieval popular Bible - what was presented as biblical narrative to an audience largely unable to read the original biblical texts? …
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
E-bok, 2002
856 kr
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The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
E-bok, 2002
838 kr
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The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.
German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition
Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch
Häftad, 2017
876 kr
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The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning …
German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition
Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch
E-bok, 2016
927 kr
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The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning …
German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition
Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch
E-bok, 2016
1036 kr
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The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning …
Memory and Memorials
The Commemorative Century
Av Brian Murdoch, William Kidd
E-bok, 2017
838 kr
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The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on …
Memory and Memorials
The Commemorative Century
Av Brian Murdoch, William Kidd
E-bok, 2017
856 kr
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The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on …
Germanic Hero
Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry
E-bok, 1996
2247 kr
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In this study, the author looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined political and social constraints. The hero if not a sword-wielding barbarian, bent only upon establishing his own fame; such fame-seekers (including some famous medieval literary figures) might even …
German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition
Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
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The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning …
Early Germanic Literature and Culture
Av Brian Murdoch, Malcolm Read
Inbunden, 2004
1489 kr
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A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and significance of early Germanic culture and literature.The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, …
German Literature of the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2004
1489 kr
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A detailed, contextualized picture of the very beginnings of writing in German from around 750 to 1100.This second volume of the set not only presents a detailed picture of the beginnings of writing in German from its first emergence as a literary language from around 750 to 1100, but also places …
Novels of Erich Maria Remarque
Sparks of Life
Häftad, 2010
412 kr
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New view of Remarque's novels as a chronicle of the century yet more than a mere reflection of historical events.Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described as a "chronicler of the twentieth century." He is both a German writer and a genuinely international …
Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama
War, Death, Morality
Inbunden, 2022
1770 kr
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Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces …
Catullus
The poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
Av Gaius Valerius Catullus, Brian Murdoch
Häftad, 2023
183 kr
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The book is a translation into English verse of the poems of the Latin writer Catullus (first century BCE). Catullus's poems vary from two-line epigrams to much longer pieces, and they range in subjects from declarations of love (and celebrations of sex), to moving personal poems and also …
Germanic Hero
Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry
Inbunden, 1996
2275 kr
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In this study, the author looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined political and social constraints. The hero if not a sword-wielding barbarian, bent only upon establishing his own fame; such fame-seekers (including some famous medieval literary figures) might even …
Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature
Av Brian Murdoch, Brian O. Murdoch
Häftad, 1995
239 kr
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Inbunden, 2010
1356 kr
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Finally, the truth about war," reviewers proclaimed when All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1928, ten years after World War I had ended. Shockingly direct, it painted a decidedly unromantic portrait of the war in which Remarque had briefly fought and quickly became an international …
