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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2024
601 kr
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This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its growing success in the aftermath of …
Walking Corpses
Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
Av Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt
Inbunden, 2014
556 kr
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Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions …
Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire
Häftad, 1997
388 kr
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Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging …
Walking Corpses
Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
Av Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt
Häftad, 2023
332 kr
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In Walking Corpses, Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt contextualize reactions to leprosy in medieval Western Europe by tracing its history in Late Antique Byzantium, which had been confronting leprosy and its effects for centuries. Integrating developments in both the Latin West and the Greek …
Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea"
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2023
604 kr
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Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its …
Ursula K. Le Guin's "e;A Wizard of Earthsea"e;
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2023
803 kr
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Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin''s novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its …
Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”
A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2025
604 kr
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This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its growing success in the aftermath of …
