Language & Literature

ISBN: 9783700165620
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: WIENER STUDIEN
Volume: 34
Most probably in the late 1470s or in the early 1480s, the historically keen cardinal and patron Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini (1437/391503) requested a revision of an older Vita Caroli Magni with regard to content and style of the m... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168430
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 807
This publication starts from the known fact that medieval narrative literature usually tells what has already been told, changing only more or less minor details, according to special requirements. In analysing a number of representative works ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700167709
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: VERöFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR IRANISTIK
Volume: 57
This volume is the first of five volumes of the History of Wassaf, in the German translation by the Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856). For the first volume, Hammer-Purgstall produced an edition of the Persian text set... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848020726
Published by : English Heritage
High on their windswept headland, the imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey dominate the busy harbour town below. Originally founded in the seventh century and ruled by the renowned Abbess Hild, the first monastery here was the setting for one of the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688799
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789979548928
Published by : Iceland University Press
Sturlunga Saga is a collection of secular contemporary literature of historical events in the 11th and 12th century. The Sturlunga Saga has mainly been used as a source in historical research. This book, however, emphasizes the ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897778
Published by : The Exeter Press
This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. A religious b... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843835202
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. This volume presents the latest resea... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515097741
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD)

Volume: 17,B,9
English summary: This catalog contains descriptions of 330 manuscripts from the Arabica archives of the Bavarian State Library in Munich (Arabic signatures Cod. 1335-1664). Descriptions of some Persian works are also included. Individual Tu... .... Learn More