wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop AEthelwold's school at Winchester in the period of tenth-century monastic reform in standardizing the vernacular and in studying and composing Latin poetry; allegory in Old English literature; the place of origin of the Book of Kells; the source of a fourteenth-century Icelandic saga writer's picture of Edward the Confessor; the...
The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two c...
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171,12 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted. Contributions are made on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, early Northumbrian history, the 'weapon' vocabulary of Beowulf, world history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a woman's stock of clothes in the mid-tenth century and vernacular preaching before AElfric. Historical studies are represented by an examination of the position of the aetheling in matters of...
Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture...
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171,12 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in England in the eleventh. An important liturgical manuscript, the Bosworth Psalter, is more securely localized; the exemplars of the Vercelli Book and its probable area of origin are clarified. Several motifs in Old English literature are elucidated, and the influence of Christian doctrine on the...
Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of Englis...
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171,12 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue in tenth-century England is given a full account; likewise an eleventh-century Canterbury copy of a large anthology of Latin poetry for classroom use is properly described. A discussion of the aesthetic principles governing the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination raises artistic...
The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-...
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171,12 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. There are studies of particular manuscripts: three Latin poems are added to the very few known to have been composed in the time of Athelstan the first; the damaged page in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry is made to yield a better text than before; the distinctive sense of scholarship and literary style that went into a late Old English editing of one of King Alfred's prose works is...
This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manus...
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171,12 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume.
The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume.
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181,49 zł |
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Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780521038331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more ???standard??? subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred??'s Boethius and Beowulf, lead to unusual conclusions. A phenomenon special to Anglo-Saxon England is given a full and separate treatment in a careful and imaginative analysis of the ecclesiastical and political significance of the cults of murdered royal saints. Elizabeth Okasha??'s Hand-List which has been indispensable...
Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton...
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171,12 zł |
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Edward III's Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344
ISBN: 9781843833130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. NEW LOWER PRICE The image of King Arthur's Round Table is well-known, both as Thomas Malory's portrayal of a fellowship of knights dedicated to the highest ideals of chivalry, and as the great wooden table at Winchester castle. Now a dramatic archaeological find at Windsor castle sheds new light on the idea of a round table as a gathering: the 'House of the Round Table' which Edward III ordered to be constructed at the conclusion of his Windsor festival of 1344. The discovery of the foundation trench of a great building two hundred feet in diameter in the Upper Ward of Windsor castle, allows...
NEW LOWER PRICE The image of King Arthur's Round Table is well-known, both as Thomas Malory's portrayal of a fellowship of knights dedicated to the hi...
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129,68 zł |
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Edward III's Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344
ISBN: 9781843833918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A dramatic archaeological find at Windsor Castle reveals Edward III's 'House of the Round Table', designed to show off Edward's power and prestige at a crucial moment in his attempts to lay claim to the throne of France.
A dramatic archaeological find at Windsor Castle reveals Edward III's 'House of the Round Table', designed to show off Edward's power and prestige at ...
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129,62 zł |
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Juergensmeyer and Brown's Sum and Substance Quick Review on Property, 5th
ISBN: 9780314180957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Comprehensive analysis of property law, convenient for class or exam preparation. Provides clear and concise explanations of legal concepts and terms, along with exam hints, strategies, mnemonics, charts, tables, and study tips.
Comprehensive analysis of property law, convenient for class or exam preparation. Provides clear and concise explanations of legal concepts and terms,...
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322,14 zł |
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Teens, Digital Media, and the Chicago Public Library
ISBN: 9780985681968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As new initiatives to exploit technology and digital media for learning sweep the country, a learning center for teens at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago demonstrates both the challenges and opportunities that these efforts present, a new report from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research finds. YOUmedia attracts between 350 and 500 teens weekly, the report finds. The largest single demographic group attending YOUmedia is African American males, who historically have been underserved by after-school programs. With the guidance of adults and...
As new initiatives to exploit technology and digital media for learning sweep the country, a learning center for teens at the Harold Washington Librar...
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78,39 zł |