Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9781487501983 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer "communion" that is non-petitionary and wordless. This preference has unduly influenced modern scholarship on historic methods of prayer particularly concerning Anglo-Saxon spirituality. In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England. Clark's analysis of the works of Bede, ?lfric, and Alfred utilizes anthropologic and economic theories of exchange in order to reveal the ritualized,... While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer "communion" that is non-petitionary and wordless. ... |
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To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781501710643 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European...
Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medie...
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Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
ISBN: 9780268102302 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts.
Regardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Eucharist during that time was to speak of dynamic interactions between body and sign. In... Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama...
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Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium: The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist
ISBN: 9781107140134 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.
This book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.
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450,95 zł |
Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy
ISBN: 9780268182021 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on original research of manuscripts and documents, Justin Steinberg's study reveals in particular the importance of professional, urban classes as cultivators of early Italian poetry.
Reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the reade...
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Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide
ISBN: 9780268102296 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts.
Presents a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelli...
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565,30 zł |
Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780933784017 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its third decade, Studies in the Age of Chaucer is well established as the premier periodical in Chaucer studies and in later Middle English literature. In addition to its annual bibliography of Chaucer scholarship and authoritative reviews on new books of interest to Chaucerians, these volumes contain original scholarship by both young and established scholars ranging in a wide variety of approaches. Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors,...
Now in its third decade, Studies in the Age of Chaucer is well established as the premier periodical in Chaucer studies and in later Middle English li...
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272,56 zł |
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780231195508 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden
ISBN: 9781783743483 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin'amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in... This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the S... |
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198,81 zł |
Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden
ISBN: 9781783743490 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin'amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in... This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the S... |
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287,29 zł |
The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women
ISBN: 9780820352244 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The twelve essays in this volume look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture, and of religious and educational foundations. Patronage as a means of empowerment for women is an issue that underlies many of the essays. Among the other topics discussed are the various forms patronage took, the obstacles to women's... The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women a... |
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576,48 zł |
Francisco de Osuna and the Spirit of the Letter
ISBN: 9780807891339 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study shows how Osuna uses mystical symbolism and allegory in his own writing and in the methods of meditation and contemplation he teaches.
This study shows how Osuna uses mystical symbolism and allegory in his own writing and in the methods of meditation and contemplation he teaches.
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157,17 zł |
Narrative Technique in the Lais of Marie de France: Themes and Variations
ISBN: 9780807891391 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France's narrative technique.
In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France's narrative techniq...
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183,37 zł |
Mythe Et Psychologie Chez Marie de France Dans Guigemar
ISBN: 9780807891421 / Francuski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A psychological interpretation of Marie de France's Guigemar, a lai that uses the legend of Hercules as a vehicle for her ideas on love and duty in society.
A psychological interpretation of Marie de France's Guigemar, a lai that uses the legend of Hercules as a vehicle for her ideas on love and duty in so...
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157,17 zł |
Charles d'Orléans and the Allegorical Mode
ISBN: 9780807891506 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.
This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work.
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157,17 zł |
Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition: History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
ISBN: 9781788310307 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world.
Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world.
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479,50 zł |
Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds
ISBN: 9789004351820 / Starogrecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Estetizar El Exceso: Cleopatra En La Cultura Hispanica Medieval y del Siglo de Oro
ISBN: 9781855663268 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. social y posicionamiento politico. Javier JLa primera monografia academica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopatrico en la cultura esp
social y posicionamiento politico. Javier JLa primera monografia academica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopatrico en la cultura esp
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Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
ISBN: 9781108418416 / Angielski / Twarda / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.
The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.
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711,68 zł |
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo Da Lentini
ISBN: 9781487503765 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular.
This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacul...
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267,51 zł |