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Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation
Häftad, 2026
616 kr
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This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation accompanied by the Faroese original. The ballads show that far from being culturally isolated, the Faroe Islands were an …
Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Concise Edition)
Av Isaac Newton, Marika Taylor
Häftad, 2023
113 kr
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New concise edition with a new introduction, abridged for the modern reader. The Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy is one of the most important scientific works ever to have been written and has had a profound impact on modern science. Consisting of three separate books, the …
Foundations of Cloud Computing
Häftad, 2026
1567 kr
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Foundations of Cloud Computing provides readers with a guidebook to navigating the field of Cloud Computing, including the guiding principles, key concepts, history, terminology, state-of-the-art in research, and a roadmap to where the field intersects and interacts with related fields of research …
Antonio Latini’s "The Modern Steward, or The Art of Preparing Banquets Well"
A Complete English Translation
Inbunden, 2019
3466 kr
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Latini’s masterpiece of Baroque cooking and household management was the first book to publish recipes using tomatoes and chilli peppers. This first complete English translation presents the text with contextual introduction and notes to aid the reader’s understanding. The Modern Steward was …
Song of the Bison
Text and Translation of Nicolaus Hussovianus’s "Carmen de statura, feritate, ac venatione bisontis"
Inbunden, 2019
1777 kr
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In 1521, the young Polish diplomat Nicolaus Hussovianus was watching the bullfights at a papal celebration in Rome. He remarked that the spectacle reminded him of the bison hunts he had witnessed as a young man in the Polish-Lithuanian woods, and his employer then asked Hussovianus to write a poem …
Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory
An Early-Fourteenth-Century Collection in Latin
Inbunden, 2019
2194 kr
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Edited and with commentary by Joan Greatrex, this book makes available for the first time in printed form the sermon manuscript, MS Q. 18, which survives in its original home in the medieval cathedral library at Worcester. At first glance this small, untidy quarto-size manuscript appears to be …
Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter
The Middle English and Latin Versions
Inbunden, 2019
1777 kr
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Jerome’s Abbreviated Psalter was one of the most important collections of psalm verses in the Middle Ages. Commonly found in primers and books of hours, it was the primary medium for lay people to imitate the monastic divine office, even as it offered concessions to harsh personal circumstances. …
Francisco de Osuna’s "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish
A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Av Dana Bultman
Inbunden, 2019
3148 kr
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Best known for his works on the mystical practice of meditative recollection, Franciscan friar Francisco de Osuna published his candid manual for lay life, Norte de los estados (North Star) in 1531 before leaving Spain to reside in Antwerp. True to its title, the book was intended as a North Star …
Waldef
A French Romance from Medieval England
Inbunden, 2020
2671 kr
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This first English translation of Le Roman de Waldef makes a significant representative of the French literature of medieval England accessible for the first time. Its wide-ranging content provides an ideal introduction to a number of themes in medieval literature, making it suitable for a variety …
French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
The "Liber Donati" and "Commune Parlance"
Inbunden, 2023
2353 kr
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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French among the English, the Liber donati and Commune parlance. These texts treat the grammar, lexis, and orthography of French as well as compiling a selection of entertaining dialogues …
Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic
Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism
Inbunden, 2022
2046 kr
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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the last European polity to renounce paganism and accept the Christian faith, at the end of the fourteenth century. However, the conversion of the Baltic region continued into the early modern period and the ongoing pagan beliefs and practices of Lithuanians and …
Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral
Latin Text and Translation
Av John Jenkins
Inbunden, 2022
1545 kr
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The shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most popular pilgrim destinations in medieval Europe, as well as the focal point for the liturgy of the cathedral’s monastic community. In 1428 the keepers of the shrine composed a customary detailing its day-to-day operation, …
Beowulf by All
Community Translation and Workbook
Av Jean Abbott, Elaine Treharne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2353 kr
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This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of …
Beowulf by All
Community Translation and Workbook
Av Jean Abbott, Elaine Treharne m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
616 kr
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This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of …
Al-Idrisi’s Norman Kingdom in the South
The Book of Roger in Translation
Inbunden, 2024
1958 kr
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The Book of Roger is a twelfth-century Arabic geographical treatise commissioned by King Roger II of Sicily and compiled by the Muslim polymath al-Idrisi. On its completion in around 1157 it was the most detailed description of the known world produced up to that point. This translation covers …
Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic
Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism
Häftad, 2023
536 kr
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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the last European polity to renounce paganism and accept the Christian faith, at the end of the fourteenth century. However, the conversion of the Baltic region continued into the early modern period and the ongoing pagan beliefs and practices of Lithuanians and …
St. Radegunde of Poitiers’ "Treatise of Consolation to Lepers"
Text, Translation, and Contextual Introduction
Inbunden, 2025
1777 kr
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This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, the text was intended as a sermon of comfort for victims of leprosy. An …
Völsung Ballads from the Faroe Islands in English Translation
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This volume presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sjúrður, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying hero of the Germanic Middle Ages, in English translation accompanied by the Faroese original. The ballads show that far from being culturally isolated, the Faroe Islands were an …
"The Perils of Persiles and Sigismunda, a Northern Saga" by Miguel de Cervantes
Inbunden, 2023
3137 kr
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Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional (1617) is Miguel de Cervantes’s last major work. Virtually ignored for the past four hundred years and overshadowed by the acclaim accorded Don Quixote, it is due a revival. As indicated by this new English title, The Perils of Persiles …
French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
The "Liber Donati" and "Commune Parlance"
Häftad, 2024
616 kr
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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French among the English, the Liber donati and Commune parlance. These texts treat the grammar, lexis, and orthography of French as well as compiling a selection of entertaining dialogues …
Tales of Love, Cleverness, and Violence in Tomaso Costo’s "Fuggilozio" (1596)
Translated into English
Inbunden, 2024
1969 kr
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This selection from Tomaso Costo’s Fuggilozio (The Cure for Indolence, 1596) translates entertaining, dramatic, or witty examples of the over four hundred stories and anecdotes of the original. Together, they offer an engaging window into the lively culture and society of Naples and Italy …
Poetry and Nation-Building in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Three Early Modern Latin Epics
Inbunden, 2024
2194 kr
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Latin epic poetry flourished in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between the early sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries, accompanied by the widely accepted belief that the Lithuanian language was a corrupted form of Latin and therefore Latin should be Lithuania’s national language. This edition …
Cleomadés and the Marvellous Flying Wooden Horse
A Thirteenth-Century Romance by Adenet le Roi
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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A translation into English of Albert Henry’s definitive edition of Adenet le Roi’s Cleomadés, a story based on a tale from The One Thousand and One Nights.Palace and pageantry, music and feast contribute to the poetic beauty of the tale, in which the hero Cleomadés and his sweetheart Clarmondine …
Venetian Spy’s Account of the War of Candia
Emmanuel Mormori’s Italian Text with English Translation and Dossier of Sources
Av Kiril Petkov
Inbunden, 2025
3235 kr
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This text is an eyewitness account of the crucial first five years of the War of Candia (1645–1669), also known as the Cretan War and Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War: the war between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States. It is a primary source for the …
Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral
Latin Text and Translation
Av John Jenkins
Häftad, 2024
458 kr
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The shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most popular pilgrim destinations in medieval Europe, as well as the focal point for the liturgy of the cathedral’s monastic community. In 1428 the keepers of the shrine composed a customary detailing its day-to-day operation, …
Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens
New Translations of the "Encomium of Queen Emma" and the "Life of King Edward"
Av Jacob Bell
Inbunden, 2025
1328 kr
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This book provides new and approachable translations of two important medieval artifacts: the Encomium of Queen Emma and the Life of King Edward. Sponsored by royal women—Emma of Normandy, wife of two English kings and mother to two more; and Edith of Wessex, the wife of Edward the Confessor and …
St. Radegunde of Poitiers’ "Treatise of Consolation to Lepers"
Text, Translation, and Contextual Introduction
Häftad, 2026
527 kr
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This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attributed to Ps.-Basil, the text was intended as a sermon of comfort for victims of leprosy. An …
Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death
Abraham Caslari’s "Tractate on Pestilential Fevers and Fever Types"
Inbunden, 2026
1763 kr
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Abraham Caslari was a Jewish physician in Catalonia, where he and his family found refuge after the great expulsion of French Jews in 1306. In 1348, he was also one of the many physicians who found themselves treating men, women, and children during the Black Death. Rejecting the emerging consensus …
Jewish Refugees in Amsterdam
"Questions by a Christian Cleric from Rouen, France, and Answers by the Excellent, Eminent, and Wise Saul Levi Mortera"
Inbunden, 2026
1545 kr
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This is the first annotated edition and translation from Spanish into English of Preguntas que hizo un clérigo de Ruan de Francia a las cuales respondió el excelente y eminentísimo señor hacham Saul Levi Mortera (Questions by a Christian Cleric from Rouen, France, and Answers by the Excellent, …
On the Origin of Species (Concise Edition)
Häftad, 2023
115 kr
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Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognized as the breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the world around us, the place and history of humans, the connections between environment and evolution. …
