The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition provides the only complete translation in English, accompanied by the Latin original. The introduction places her handbook within the context of French and Germanic literary traditions, while explanatory references illuminate the life and work of a remarkable ninth-century woman, and place the text squarely within its contemporary social, feminist and religious contexts.
The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition pro...
The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition provides the only complete translation in English, accompanied by the Latin original. The introduction places her handbook within the context of French and Germanic literary traditions, while explanatory references illuminate the life and work of a remarkable ninth-century woman, and place the text squarely within its contemporary social, feminist and religious contexts.
The Liber Manualis is a guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition pro...
Better known writers such as Maria de France, Queen Matilda of England, Christine de Pizan, and Margery Kemp, are joined by those whose works are difficult to find, such as Perpetua of Carthage, Egeria of Spain, and anonymous barbarian poets. The selections are not mere excerpts, but some have been
Better known writers such as Maria de France, Queen Matilda of England, Christine de Pizan, and Margery Kemp, are joined by those whose works are diff...
Enlarged and revised with a new introduction and new textual materials, individual introductions, critical commentaries, and updated bibliographies, this new second edition of 'The Writings of medieval Women' will appeal to an even wider readership.
Enlarged and revised with a new introduction and new textual materials, individual introductions, critical commentaries, and updated bibliographies, t...
A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the sake of recreation, food or conquest. The Stag of Love explores the body of erotic metaphor that developed from the hunt together with Ovid's flourishing legacies. While representing a range of human experience, the metaphor finds its dominant expression in the literature of love. As Marcelle Thiebaux demonstrates, the hunt's disciplined violence represented sexual desire, along with strategies and arts for getting love, the joys of...
A sport and a military exercise, hunting involved aggressive action with weapons and dogs, and pursuit to the point of combat and killing, for the ...
Dark. Lush. Disturbing. Four carnal and subversive stories, with characters haunted by their cravings for crimson gore...through need...a gruesome desire for retribution...or their own chilling temperaments. Elegantly-crafted, each of these eerie tales will produce a lurid shudder at the deepest, most intimate level of recognition. In "Guillotine," a dead girl keeps a macabre post-mortem date with her lusty executioner. The dignified woman-hater in "The Night of DeLyria" carries out his grisly orders to the full, then reels with the psychic consequences. In "The Glass Arcade," jealousy drives...
Dark. Lush. Disturbing. Four carnal and subversive stories, with characters haunted by their cravings for crimson gore...through need...a gruesome des...
