wyszukanych pozycji: 75
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Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780415930024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work is a collection of essays that investigate the fascination, influence, and tolerances of the foreign other-non-Europeans, non-whites, non-Christians, gays and lesbians, peoples cast outside the pale, and physically or mentally impaired people - living in or travelling through Europe during the Middle Ages. These figures are explored in the context of medieval literature, arthuriana, historical documents, religious treatises, art, and crusading poems.
This work is a collection of essays that investigate the fascination, influence, and tolerances of the foreign other-non-Europeans, non-whites, non-Ch...
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766,88 |
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The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780815332305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These essays explore the cultural significance of writing, reading and the book in the Middle Ages, and argues for an understanding of medieval cultures as combinations of oral and literary expressions. Essays explore the representation of books and reading in art, literature and iconography and the philosophical and religious significance of reading and literacy.
These essays explore the cultural significance of writing, reading and the book in the Middle Ages, and argues for an understanding of medieval cultur...
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766,88 |
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Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
ISBN: 9783110195484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English,... After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the co... |
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705,86 |
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Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World: Cultural-Historical, Social-Literary, and Theoretical Reflections
ISBN: 9783110737127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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577,49 |
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East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
ISBN: 9783110328783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 827 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Die englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediavistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. 'Grundthemen' sind die kulturpragenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualitat, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen, Kommunikation,... Die englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediavistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie... |
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812,85 |
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Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit
ISBN: 9783110218862 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2010 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This second volume of the "Theophrastus Paracelsus Studies" presents a collection of papers by international scholars from a variety of disciplines. They illuminate the factors from the history of culture and mentality which were of significance for Paracelsus' work, and his comprehensive activity in religion, medicine and alchemy, together with his influence on contemporary developments in medicine, natural healing and bioethics. In addition, the authors deal with aspects of sociopolitics and the history of ideas which move the central significance of Paracelsus more into the focus of... This second volume of the "Theophrastus Paracelsus Studies" presents a collection of papers by international scholars from a variety of disciplines... |
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812,85 |
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Satirische Weltbetrachtungen
ISBN: 9786202444200 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2025 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Wer hätte sich nicht schon mal über die lieben Mitmenschen geärgert, über sie gelacht, oder sich einfach gewundert. Und dann, im Spiegel, sich selbst dort entdeckt und als schuldig befunden? Hier bietet Albrecht Classen erneut eine Sammlung von satirischen oder schlicht humorvollen Essays, in denen viele verschiedene Lebenssituationen teils in Arizona, teils auf Hawai'i, in Deutschland oder in Ägypten zur Sprache kommen. Man kann sich jeden Tag wundern, den Kopf schütteln, oder einfach leicht schmunzeln. Dies sollen diese Kurztexte ermöglichen, denn Lachen ist schon immer die beste...
Wer hätte sich nicht schon mal über die lieben Mitmenschen geärgert, über sie gelacht, oder sich einfach gewundert. Und dann, im Spiegel, sich sel...
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161,71 |
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Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
ISBN: 9781138545717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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766,88 |
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Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World
ISBN: 9781793648280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was...
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and...
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692,66 |
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The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350): Masterwork of Late Medieval Didactic Literature
ISBN: 9781527595781 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The Gemstone. Both authors pursued very similar goals, instructing their audiences about vices and virtues, Boccaccio by telling entertaining, often erotic tales, Bonerius by relating didactic tales, mostly based on animals as the active characters. This book provides the first English translation of all one hundred fables authored by Bonerius. Bonerius drew mostly from the classical Aesopian tradition, and...
Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his ...
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171,81 |
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Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781138011557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the diverse manifestations of the foreign in medieval literature, historical documents, religous treatises, and art, these essays mine the traces of unprecedented encounters in which fascination and fear meet.
This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and ofte...
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296,80 |
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Wisdom from the European Middle Ages: Literary and Didactic Perspectives
ISBN: 9783631865224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book brings together, in a modern English translation, a selection of relevant medieval texts that are determined by wisdom. Mostly hidden in a literary framework, the messages contained in these excerpts prove to be highly valuable for all people throughout time, addressing ethical, moral, and religious values and ideals. Critical discussions of the meaning of wisdom frame the text anthology.
This book brings together, in a modern English translation, a selection of relevant medieval texts that are determined by wisdom. Mostly hidden in a l...
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405,59 |
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Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen: A Selection of His Novellas
ISBN: 9781527595378 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduced here through the English translation of a selection of his best short stories. The bulk of the book consists of his Death from Reval (1939), in which we are confronted with a variety of perspectives on death as intertwined with people's lives in that Estonian city. We are invited to follow curious habits and attitudes by various survivors and thus learn to smile about and with death. In other novellas chosen from his extensive oeuvre,...
Long ignored, the fascinating Baltic-German author Werner Bergengruen (d. 1964), once even nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, is reintroduc...
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161,40 |
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The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781138799035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The contributors to this volume explore the significance of the written document as the key icon of a whole era. Both philosophers and artists, both poets and clerics wholeheartedly subscribed to the notion that reading and writing represented essential epistemological tools for spiritual, political,...
The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be readi...
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262,17 |
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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse
ISBN: 9783110253979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 811 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Aus heutiger Sicht mag das Thema 'Freundschaft' fast trivial erscheinen, aber die Beitrager zu diesem Band argumentieren aus unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, dass schon in der Spatantike, dann aber vor allem seit dem hohen Mittelalter Freundschaft zu einem zentralen Aspekt des offentlichen Diskurses aufstieg, der wesentlich die offentliche Auseinandersetzung um die ethischen und moralischen Werte bestimmte. Wahrend die hofische Dichtung sich nur eher marginal mit Freundschaft beschaftigte und diese als mehr oder weniger gegeben ansah, spielte sie gerade unter den... Aus heutiger Sicht mag das Thema 'Freundschaft' fast trivial erscheinen, aber die Beitrager zu diesem Band argumentieren aus unterschiedlichsten wi... |
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1069,82 |